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Countries Ranked by Rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)

Showing every country with available data for 2015 • World Bank: EN.POP.EL5M.RU.ZS

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) data for 2015, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 215 countries reporting, the median value is 0.81, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Tuvalu

39.27

Europe & Central Asia

Greenland

43.46

Latin America & Caribbean

Guyana

26.50

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Egypt, Arab Rep.

2.59

North America

Bermuda

2.29

South Asia

Maldives

31.02

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

15.22

Rank Country Rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)
1 Greenland 43.46
2 Tuvalu 39.27
3 Marshall Islands 31.71
4 Maldives 31.02
5 Guyana 26.50
6 Kiribati 20.20
7 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 19.88
8 Suriname 17.80
9 Solomon Islands 16.07
10 Seychelles 15.22
11 Fiji 14.78
12 Turks and Caicos Islands 14.72
13 French Polynesia 11.05
14 Netherlands 9.88
15 Palau 9.51
16 Nauru 9.11
17 Bahamas, The 8.82
18 British Virgin Islands 8.40
19 Vanuatu 8.32
20 Antigua and Barbuda 8.22
21 Samoa 7.42
22 Viet Nam 7.17
23 Brunei Darussalam 6.93
24 Cayman Islands 6.53
25 Tonga 6.13
26 Dominica 5.90
27 New Caledonia 5.54
28 Cabo Verde 5.43
29 Belize 5.39
30 Iceland 4.99
31 Philippines 4.59
32 St. Kitts and Nevis 4.49
33 Norway 4.26
34 American Samoa 4.08
35 Denmark 3.92
36 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.76
37 Malaysia 3.61
38 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 3.56
39 Myanmar 3.46
40 Guinea-Bissau 3.30
41 St. Martin (French part) 3.07
42 Northern Mariana Islands 2.96
43 Thailand 2.82
44 Papua New Guinea 2.79
45 Albania 2.78
46 Panama 2.74
47 Faroe Islands 2.67
48 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 2.59
49 Egypt, Arab Rep. 2.59
50 Djibouti 2.47
51 Indonesia 2.44
52 Gambia, The 2.38
53 Isle of Man 2.37
54 Sierra Leone 2.35
55 Bangladesh 2.32
56 Bermuda 2.29
57 Latvia 2.27
58 Greece 2.24
59 Liberia 2.21
60 Senegal 2.21
61 Madagascar 2.20
62 Timor-Leste 1.90
63 Croatia 1.87
64 Jamaica 1.83
65 Oman 1.78
66 Grenada 1.73
67 Sweden 1.73
68 Guam 1.73
69 Finland 1.65
70 Gabon 1.65
71 Montenegro 1.65
72 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 1.51
73 Mozambique 1.49
74 Cyprus 1.48
75 Mauritania 1.46
76 Sri Lanka 1.46
77 Cambodia 1.32
78 Estonia 1.29
79 St. Lucia 1.29
80 Benin 1.25
81 Belgium 1.25
82 Honduras 1.23
83 United Arab Emirates 1.22
84 Ireland 1.16
85 Haiti 1.14
86 Italy 1.13
87 Iraq 1.12
88 Comoros 1.07
89 Puerto Rico (US) 1.07
90 New Zealand 1.06
91 Trinidad and Tobago 1.06
92 Gibraltar 1.06
93 Libya 1.04
94 Costa Rica 1.04
95 Bahrain 1.00
96 Tunisia 0.98
97 Cuba 0.96
98 Australia 0.89
99 Qatar 0.88
100 Guinea 0.88
101 Japan 0.87
102 Ecuador 0.86
103 Nicaragua 0.86
104 Kuwait 0.84
105 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.84
106 Venezuela, RB 0.82
107 France 0.82
108 Georgia 0.81
109 Germany 0.81
110 Nigeria 0.81
111 Macao SAR, China 0.77
112 Equatorial Guinea 0.76
113 Ghana 0.71
114 Saudi Arabia 0.68
115 United Kingdom 0.67
116 Spain 0.63
117 El Salvador 0.61
118 Monaco 0.60
119 Eritrea 0.58
120 Yemen, Rep. 0.57
121 Korea, Rep. 0.57
122 Colombia 0.56
123 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.56
124 Canada 0.55
125 Cote d'Ivoire 0.55
126 Malta 0.54
127 Turkiye 0.53
128 Poland 0.53
129 China 0.53
130 Mauritius 0.52
131 United States 0.50
132 Brazil 0.49
133 Portugal 0.48
134 Sao Tome and Principe 0.47
135 Dominican Republic 0.46
136 India 0.43
137 Mexico 0.42
138 Lithuania 0.40
139 Aruba 0.39
140 Cameroon 0.37
141 Barbados 0.36
142 Ukraine 0.31
143 Curacao 0.31
144 Angola 0.31
145 Uruguay 0.30
146 Chile 0.30
147 Morocco 0.28
148 Peru 0.27
149 Tanzania 0.27
150 Russian Federation 0.27
151 Pakistan 0.24
152 Congo, Rep. 0.23
153 Kenya 0.20
154 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.17
155 Lebanon 0.16
156 Bulgaria 0.15
157 Togo 0.15
158 Argentina 0.13
159 Algeria 0.12
160 Slovenia 0.11
161 Israel 0.10
162 Sudan 0.09
163 South Africa 0.09
164 Guatemala 0.09
165 Syrian Arab Republic 0.08
166 Romania 0.08
167 Namibia 0.08
168 Jordan 0.02
169 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.01
170 West Bank and Gaza 0.01
171 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.01
172 Singapore 0.01
173 Paraguay 0.00
174 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
175 Chad 0.00
176 Central African Republic 0.00
177 Lao PDR 0.00
178 Lesotho 0.00
179 Burundi 0.00
180 Burkina Faso 0.00
181 Switzerland 0.00
182 Tajikistan 0.00
183 Liechtenstein 0.00
184 North Macedonia 0.00
185 Afghanistan 0.00
186 Niger 0.00
187 Botswana 0.00
188 Bolivia 0.00
189 Bhutan 0.00
190 Turkmenistan 0.00
191 Belarus 0.00
192 Luxembourg 0.00
193 Uganda 0.00
194 Malawi 0.00
195 Azerbaijan 0.00
196 Austria 0.00
197 Mali 0.00
198 Nepal 0.00
199 Uzbekistan 0.00
200 Armenia 0.00
201 Moldova 0.00
202 Andorra 0.00
203 Mongolia 0.00
204 Zambia 0.00
205 San Marino 0.00
206 Zimbabwe 0.00
207 Rwanda 0.00
208 Hungary 0.00
209 Serbia 0.00
210 Ethiopia 0.00
211 Eswatini 0.00
212 Slovak Republic 0.00
213 Czechia 0.00
214 Kazakhstan 0.00
215 South Sudan 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (EN.POP.EL5M.RU.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2015; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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