Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Monaco

Population below five meters above sea level in Monaco in 2015 — 7.9%. Ranked 162 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.07 pp.

2015 7.9% −0.05 pp vs 2000
World rank 162of 215
Period maximum 7.97%1990
Period minimum 7.9%2015

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Monaco, 1990–20157.887.97.927.947.967.981990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 7.97%2000: 7.95%2015: 7.9%
Change over the period: −0.07 pp Annual average: 0 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Monaco 7.9%
World 4.06%
Southern Europe computed 3.56%
High-income countries computed 4.19%
Population below five meters above sea level — Monaco, by year Monaco All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 7.9
2000 7.95
1990 7.97

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.