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Countries Ranked by Urban 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.UR.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 urban 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 1.74, 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

Marshall Islands

36.26

Europe & Central Asia

Gibraltar

55.35

Latin America & Caribbean

Suriname

53.48

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Bahrain

31.98

North America

Bermuda

4.94

South Asia

Maldives

18.15

Sub-Saharan Africa

Mauritania

19.54

Rank Country Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)
1 Gibraltar 55.35
2 Suriname 53.48
3 Guyana 51.99
4 Netherlands 43.81
5 Marshall Islands 36.26
6 Bahrain 31.98
7 Belize 28.47
8 St. Martin (French part) 25.61
9 United Arab Emirates 25.50
10 Viet Nam 22.50
11 Mauritania 19.54
12 Maldives 18.15
13 Macao SAR, China 16.46
14 Greenland 16.40
15 Eritrea 14.90
16 Thailand 14.65
17 Brunei Darussalam 13.94
18 Egypt, Arab Rep. 13.75
19 Kiribati 13.32
20 Seychelles 13.26
21 Japan 11.57
22 Tonga 11.37
23 Cayman Islands 11.09
24 Liberia 9.52
25 Denmark 8.65
26 Djibouti 8.61
27 Tunisia 7.96
28 Latvia 7.96
29 Gabon 7.88
30 Nauru 7.45
31 Jamaica 7.33
32 Monaco 7.30
33 Puerto Rico (US) 6.99
34 Dominica 6.96
35 Hong Kong SAR, China 6.73
36 Malaysia 6.52
37 Indonesia 6.37
38 Albania 6.37
39 Ecuador 6.35
40 Iceland 6.32
41 Bangladesh 6.06
42 Turks and Caicos Islands 6.05
43 Benin 6.00
44 Philippines 5.94
45 Qatar 5.87
46 Libya 5.80
47 New Caledonia 5.32
48 Oman 5.06
49 Bermuda 4.94
50 Equatorial Guinea 4.90
51 Senegal 4.82
52 Papua New Guinea 4.77
53 Aruba 4.61
54 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 4.50
55 China 4.35
56 British Virgin Islands 4.33
57 Belgium 4.23
58 Grenada 4.12
59 Bahamas, The 4.04
60 Antigua and Barbuda 3.98
61 Kuwait 3.91
62 Isle of Man 3.63
63 French Polynesia 3.50
64 Fiji 3.49
65 Iraq 3.47
66 Sweden 3.40
67 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 3.39
68 Spain 3.37
69 Myanmar 3.35
70 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 3.34
71 Northern Mariana Islands 3.32
72 Panama 3.26
73 Venezuela, RB 3.25
74 Georgia 3.04
75 St. Kitts and Nevis 2.96
76 Trinidad and Tobago 2.96
77 Haiti 2.94
78 Finland 2.90
79 Norway 2.89
80 Greece 2.87
81 Lebanon 2.79
82 Palau 2.78
83 Montenegro 2.76
84 Cote d'Ivoire 2.72
85 Nigeria 2.72
86 Australia 2.71
87 Italy 2.68
88 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 2.68
89 Cyprus 2.57
90 Saudi Arabia 2.52
91 Croatia 2.44
92 Sri Lanka 2.37
93 New Zealand 2.22
94 Comoros 2.15
95 Madagascar 2.10
96 United Kingdom 2.08
97 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 2.06
98 Turkiye 2.05
99 Gambia, The 1.93
100 Cameroon 1.92
101 Uruguay 1.90
102 St. Lucia 1.89
103 Barbados 1.85
104 Malta 1.84
105 Solomon Islands 1.80
106 Vanuatu 1.79
107 Colombia 1.78
108 Brazil 1.74
109 Ireland 1.64
110 Israel 1.60
111 Korea, Rep. 1.57
112 Sao Tome and Principe 1.55
113 Cuba 1.55
114 United States 1.48
115 Guinea 1.47
116 India 1.45
117 Ghana 1.42
118 Samoa 1.39
119 Dominican Republic 1.38
120 Curacao 1.37
121 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1.35
122 Estonia 1.32
123 Mozambique 1.31
124 Slovenia 1.27
125 France 1.26
126 Guinea-Bissau 1.24
127 Angola 1.22
128 Sierra Leone 1.19
129 Mauritius 1.19
130 Bulgaria 1.19
131 Germany 1.18
132 Morocco 1.17
133 Lithuania 1.15
134 Algeria 1.12
135 Timor-Leste 1.06
136 Poland 1.06
137 Cabo Verde 1.02
138 Yemen, Rep. 1.01
139 Togo 0.98
140 Costa Rica 0.96
141 Nicaragua 0.94
142 Argentina 0.90
143 Canada 0.89
144 Portugal 0.81
145 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.76
146 Ukraine 0.75
147 Congo, Rep. 0.71
148 Russian Federation 0.70
149 Cambodia 0.69
150 Guam 0.66
151 Chile 0.66
152 Singapore 0.66
153 Mexico 0.63
154 Honduras 0.59
155 American Samoa 0.54
156 Sudan 0.42
157 Peru 0.39
158 Syrian Arab Republic 0.31
159 El Salvador 0.26
160 Romania 0.25
161 Kenya 0.21
162 Pakistan 0.21
163 West Bank and Gaza 0.19
164 Guatemala 0.12
165 South Africa 0.11
166 Namibia 0.11
167 Tanzania 0.10
168 Jordan 0.04
169 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.00
170 Czechia 0.00
171 Slovak Republic 0.00
172 Paraguay 0.00
173 Chad 0.00
174 Central African Republic 0.00
175 Eswatini 0.00
176 South Sudan 0.00
177 Ethiopia 0.00
178 Faroe Islands 0.00
179 North Macedonia 0.00
180 Burundi 0.00
181 Burkina Faso 0.00
182 Niger 0.00
183 Nepal 0.00
184 Lao PDR 0.00
185 Afghanistan 0.00
186 Switzerland 0.00
187 Mongolia 0.00
188 Tajikistan 0.00
189 Botswana 0.00
190 Moldova 0.00
191 Hungary 0.00
192 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.00
193 Bolivia 0.00
194 Bhutan 0.00
195 Belarus 0.00
196 Turkmenistan 0.00
197 Azerbaijan 0.00
198 Tuvalu 0.00
199 Uganda 0.00
200 Mali 0.00
201 Austria 0.00
202 Armenia 0.00
203 Malawi 0.00
204 Uzbekistan 0.00
205 Kazakhstan 0.00
206 Andorra 0.00
207 Luxembourg 0.00
208 Liechtenstein 0.00
209 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
210 Lesotho 0.00
211 Zambia 0.00
212 Serbia 0.00
213 Zimbabwe 0.00
214 San Marino 0.00
215 Rwanda 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (EN.POP.EL5M.UR.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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