Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Honduras

Population below five meters above sea level in Honduras in 2015 — 1.82%. Ranked 82 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has risen by 0.14 pp.

2015 1.82% +0.11 pp vs 2000
World rank 82of 215
Period maximum 1.82%2015
Period minimum 1.68%1990

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Honduras, 1990–20151.651.71.751.81.851990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 1.68%2000: 1.71%2015: 1.82%
Change over the period: +0.14 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Honduras 1.82%
World 4.06%
Central America computed 1.25%
Population below five meters above sea level — Honduras, by year Honduras All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 1.82
2000 1.71
1990 1.68

Central America, 2015

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

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.