Rural population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters

Rural population below 5m is the percentage of the total population, living in areas 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://doi.org/10.7927/d1x1-d702, publisher: NASA Earthdata GIS, date accessed: 202112, date published: 202112

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

    CUNY Institute for Demographic Research

    CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) - City University of New York, uri: https://doi.org/10.7927/d1x1-d702, publisher: NASA Earthdata GIS, date accessed: 202112

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan20150percent
Albania20152.78percent
Algeria20150.12percent
American Samoa20154.08percent
Andorra20150percent
Angola20150.31percent
Antigua and Barbuda20158.22percent
Argentina20150.13percent
Armenia20150percent
Aruba20150.39percent

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