Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Montenegro

Population below five meters above sea level in Montenegro in 2015 — 4.41%. Ranked 130 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has risen by 0.27 pp.

2015 4.41% +0.11 pp vs 2000
World rank 130of 215
Period maximum 4.41%2015
Period minimum 4.14%1990

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Montenegro, 1990–20154.14.24.34.44.51990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 4.14%2000: 4.29%2015: 4.41%
Change over the period: +0.27 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Montenegro 4.41%
World 4.06%
Southern Europe computed 3.56%
Population below five meters above sea level — Montenegro, by year Montenegro All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 4.41
2000 4.29
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.