Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Croatia

Population below five meters above sea level in Croatia in 2015 — 4.31%. Ranked 129 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has risen by 0.18 pp.

2015 4.31% +0.14 pp vs 2000
World rank 129of 215
Period maximum 4.31%2015
Period minimum 4.14%1990

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Croatia, 1990–20154.14.154.24.254.34.351990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 4.14%2000: 4.17%2015: 4.31%
Change over the period: +0.18 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Croatia 4.31%
World 4.06%
Southern Europe computed 3.56%
High-income countries computed 4.19%
Population below five meters above sea level — Croatia, by year Croatia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 4.31
2000 4.17
1990 4.14

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.