Land area where elevation is below 5 meters

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

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
215
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    CIESIN, Columbia University

    Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 3, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-ciesin-sedac-lecz-urplaev3-3.00, publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), date published: 2021

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20150percent
Albania20153.76percent
Algeria20150.03percent
American Samoa201518.06percent
Andorra20150percent
Angola20150.16percent
Antigua and Barbuda201517.24percent
Argentina20150.62percent
Armenia20150percent
Aruba201510.39percent

Open in the terminal to chart this series, compare it against other publishers, or export it with its provenance.

Land area where elevation is below 5 meters · World Bank · Interva