Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Morocco

Population below five meters above sea level in Morocco in 2015 — 1.45%. Ranked 73 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.02 pp.

2015 1.45% +0.03 pp vs 2000
World rank 73of 215
Period maximum 1.46%1990
Period minimum 1.42%2000

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Morocco, 1990–20151.41.421.441.461.481990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 1.46%2000: 1.42%2015: 1.45%
Change over the period: −0.02 pp Annual average: 0 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Morocco 1.45%
World 4.06%
Northern Africa computed 8.16%
Population below five meters above sea level — Morocco, by year Morocco All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 1.45
2000 1.42
1990 1.46

Northern Africa, 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.