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Population below five meters above sea level — British Virgin Islands

Population below five meters above sea level in the British Virgin Islands in 2015 — 12.73%. Ranked 184 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 1.27 pp.

2015 12.73% −0.7 pp vs 2000
World rank 184of 215
Period maximum 14%1990
Period minimum 12.73%2015

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — British Virgin Islands, 1990–201512.51313.5141990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 14%2000: 13.43%2015: 12.73%
Change over the period: −1.27 pp Annual average: -0.05 pp

Comparison, 2015

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: British Virgin Islands

British Virgin Islands 12.73%
World 4.06%
Latin America & Caribbean 2.21%
Caribbean computed 3.94%
High-income countries computed 4.19%
Population below five meters above sea level — British Virgin Islands, by year British Virgin Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 12.73 —
2000 13.43 —
1990 14 —

Caribbean, 2015

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

CW Curaçao 1.68 DO Dominican Republic 1.84 BB Barbados 2.21 CU Cuba 2.5 LC Saint Lucia 3.18 TT Trinidad and Tobago 4.02 HT Haiti 4.07 VI United States Virgin Islands 4.65 AW Aruba 5 VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5.11 GD Grenada 5.85 KN Saint Kitts and Nevis 7.45 SX Sint Maarten 8.06 PR Puerto Rico 8.06 JM Jamaica 9.15 AG Antigua and Barbuda 12.19 VG British Virgin Islands 12.73 DM Dominica 12.86 BS Bahamas 12.86 KY Cayman Islands 17.62 TC Turks and Caicos Islands 20.76 MF Saint Martin 28.68
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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.

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