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Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

Urban land area below 5m is the percentage of total land where the urban land elevation is 5 meters or less.

World Bank code: AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS • Data available for 215 countries • Latest year: 2015

In , Gibraltar led Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area) at 47.06.

The world median across 215 reporting countries was 0.06.

What this measures: Urban land area below 5m is the percentage of total land where the urban land elevation is 5 meters or less.

How "Agriculture" indicators are measured

Agricultural indicators are compiled by the FAO and national agriculture ministries. Many are reported as percentages (share of land, share of GDP, share of employment) so per-capita normalization is rarely needed. Weather-driven variability means single-year readings can be misleading — a 5-year rolling average is often more meaningful than a single point.

Distribution — 2015

Reporting
215 countries
Median
0.06
Mean
1.17
25th percentile
0.00
75th percentile
0.36
Range
0.00 – 47.06

World at a Glance — 2015

Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).

East Asia & PacificAmerican Samoa: 0.68ASAustralia: 0.01AUBrunei Darussalam: 0.59BNCambodia: 0.02KHChina: 0.36CNFiji: 0.12FJFrench Polynesia: 0.27PFGuam: 0.35GUHong Kong SAR, China: 6.54HKIndonesia: 0.27IDJapan: 1.77JPKiribati: 0.41KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 0.14KPKorea, Rep.: 0.44KRLao PDR: 0.00LAMacao SAR, China: 32.78MOMalaysia: 0.53MYMarshall Islands: 2.33MHMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 0.32FMMongolia: 0.00MNMyanmar: 0.05MMNauru: 5.89NRNew Caledonia: 0.06NCNew Zealand: 0.04NZNorthern Mariana Islands: 0.29MPPalau: 0.36PWPapua New Guinea: 0.01PGPhilippines: 0.51PHSamoa: 0.12WSSingapore: 3.16SGSolomon Islands: 0.03SBThailand: 0.78THTimor-Leste: 0.04TLTonga: 0.85TOTuvalu: 0.00TVVanuatu: 0.04VUViet Nam: 3.69VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 0.24ALAndorra: 0.00ADArmenia: 0.00AMAustria: 0.00ATAzerbaijan: 0.00AZBelarus: 0.00BYBelgium: 1.71BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 0.00BABulgaria: 0.03BGCroatia: 0.12HRCyprus: 0.33CYCzechia: 0.00CZDenmark: 0.83DKEstonia: 0.05EEFaroe Islands: 0.00FOFinland: 0.04FIFrance: 0.13FRGeorgia: 0.08GEGermany: 0.24DEGibraltar: 47.06GIGreece: 0.16GRGreenland: 0.00GLHungary: 0.00HUIceland: 0.01ISIreland: 0.08IEIsle of Man: 0.39IMItaly: 0.36ITKazakhstan: 0.00KZKyrgyz Republic: 0.00KGLatvia: 0.14LVLiechtenstein: 0.00LILithuania: 0.03LTLuxembourg: 0.00LUMoldova: 0.00MDMonaco: 19.84MCMontenegro: 0.11MENetherlands: 12.33NLNorth Macedonia: 0.00MKNorway: 0.04NOPoland: 0.07PLPortugal: 0.13PTRomania: 0.01RORussian Federation: 0.00RUSan Marino: 0.00SMSerbia: 0.00RSSlovak Republic: 0.00SKSlovenia: 0.06SISpain: 0.17ESSweden: 0.07SESwitzerland: 0.00CHTajikistan: 0.00TJTurkiye: 0.08TRTurkmenistan: 0.00TMUkraine: 0.04UAUnited Kingdom: 0.34GBUzbekistan: 0.00UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 0.78AGArgentina: 0.01ARAruba: 4.13AWBahamas, The: 0.20BSBarbados: 1.41BBBelize: 0.19BZBolivia: 0.00BOBrazil: 0.02BRBritish Virgin Islands: 1.30VGCayman Islands: 4.01KYChile: 0.01CLColombia: 0.01COCosta Rica: 0.05CRCuba: 0.10CUCuracao: 0.86CWDominica: 0.40DMDominican Republic: 0.15DOEcuador: 0.06ECEl Salvador: 0.07SVGrenada: 2.02GDGuatemala: 0.01GTGuyana: 0.07GYHaiti: 0.24HTHonduras: 0.04HNJamaica: 1.06JMMexico: 0.02MXNicaragua: 0.01NIPanama: 0.07PAParaguay: 0.00PYPeru: 0.00PEPuerto Rico (US): 2.00PRSint Maarten (Dutch part): 11.17SXSt. Kitts and Nevis: 0.64KNSt. Lucia: 1.10LCSt. Martin (French part): 12.69MFSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 0.91VCSuriname: 0.14SRTrinidad and Tobago: 1.00TTTurks and Caicos Islands: 0.44TCUruguay: 0.03UYVenezuela, RB: 0.04VEVirgin Islands (U.S.): 2.07VIMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 0.00AFAlgeria: 0.01DZBahrain: 16.22BHDjibouti: 0.04DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 0.49EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 0.02IRIraq: 0.06IQIsrael: 0.32ILJordan: 0.00JOKuwait: 0.46KWLebanon: 0.39LBLibya: 0.01LYMalta: 2.02MTMorocco: 0.04MAOman: 0.05OMPakistan: 0.01PKQatar: 0.91QASaudi Arabia: 0.02SASyrian Arab Republic: 0.01SYTunisia: 0.21TNUnited Arab Emirates: 0.67AEWest Bank and Gaza: 0.12PSYemen, Rep.: 0.01YENorth AmericaBermuda: 17.94BMCanada: 0.00CAUnited States: 0.06USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 5.15BDBhutan: 0.00BTIndia: 0.22INMaldives: 3.91MVNepal: 0.00NPSri Lanka: 0.43LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 0.01AOBenin: 0.21BJBotswana: 0.00BWBurkina Faso: 0.00BFBurundi: 0.00BICabo Verde: 0.11CVCameroon: 0.01CMCentral African Republic: 0.00CFChad: 0.00TDComoros: 0.65KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 0.00CDCongo, Rep.: 0.00CGCote d'Ivoire: 0.04CIEquatorial Guinea: 0.06GQEritrea: 0.01EREswatini: 0.00SZEthiopia: 0.00ETGabon: 0.01GAGambia, The: 0.23GMGhana: 0.12GHGuinea: 0.04GNGuinea-Bissau: 0.08GWKenya: 0.00KELesotho: 0.00LSLiberia: 0.13LRMadagascar: 0.02MGMalawi: 0.00MWMali: 0.00MLMauritania: 0.01MRMauritius: 0.87MUMozambique: 0.02MZNamibia: 0.00NANiger: 0.00NENigeria: 0.11NGRwanda: 0.00RWSao Tome and Principe: 0.11STSenegal: 0.08SNSeychelles: 0.98SCSierra Leone: 0.05SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 0.00SOSouth Africa: 0.01ZASouth Sudan: 0.00SSSudan: 0.00SDTanzania: 0.00TZTogo: 0.06TGUganda: 0.00UGZambia: 0.00ZMZimbabwe: 0.00ZW

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Highest Values — 2015

# Country Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
1 Gibraltar Europe & Central Asia 47.06
2 Macao SAR, China East Asia & Pacific 32.78
3 Monaco Europe & Central Asia 19.84
4 Bermuda North America 17.94
5 Bahrain Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 16.22
6 St. Martin (French part) Latin America & Caribbean 12.69
7 Netherlands Europe & Central Asia 12.33
8 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) Latin America & Caribbean 11.17
9 Hong Kong SAR, China East Asia & Pacific 6.54
10 Nauru East Asia & Pacific 5.89

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By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 85 2.60
Upper middle income 53 0.33
Lower middle income 50 0.28
Low income 25 0.03
Not classified 2 0.02

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 37 1.73
Europe & Central Asia 56 1.52
Latin America & Caribbean 42 1.18
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 23 0.96
North America 3 6.00
South Asia 6 1.62
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 0.08

Lowest Values — 2015

# Country Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
1 Turkmenistan 0.00
2 Bolivia 0.00
3 Tuvalu 0.00
4 Uganda 0.00
5 Bhutan 0.00
6 Belarus 0.00
7 Azerbaijan 0.00
8 Austria 0.00
9 Uzbekistan 0.00
10 Armenia 0.00
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Source: World Bank Open Data (AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2015.