Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Angola

Population below five meters above sea level in Angola in 2015 — 1.53%. Ranked 74 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has risen by 1.09 pp.

2015 1.53% +0.86 pp vs 2000
World rank 74of 215
Period maximum 1.53%2015
Period minimum 0.44%1990

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Angola, 1990–201500.511.521990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 0.44%2000: 0.67%2015: 1.53%
Change over the period: +1.09 pp Annual average: 0.04 pp

Comparison, 2015

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Angola

Angola 1.53%
World 4.06%
Middle Africa computed 0.81%
Population below five meters above sea level — Angola, by year Angola All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 1.53
2000 0.67
1990 0.44

About the indicator

The share of the population living less than five meters above sea level. The threshold is not arbitrary: this is the zone already threatened by storm surges and, over the coming century, by sea level rise. In absolute numbers the densely populated deltas of Asia come first; by share, island states and the Netherlands — and the latter show that a high share does not equal high risk, since everything depends on whether coastal defenses are in place.

Important: The series is not annual: the World Bank computes it from a digital elevation model for individual benchmark years, the latest of which is 2015, and has not updated it since. No one has fresher data of this kind; the values are best read as an order-of-magnitude estimate.

Source: World Development Indicators (World Bank), license CC BY 4.0.