Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Romania

Population below five meters above sea level in Romania in 2015 — 0.33%. Ranked 51 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.04 pp.

2015 0.33% −0.03 pp vs 2000
World rank 51of 215
Period maximum 0.37%1990
Period minimum 0.33%2015

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Romania, 1990–20150.320.340.360.381990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 0.37%2000: 0.36%2015: 0.33%
Change over the period: −0.04 pp Annual average: 0 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Romania 0.33%
World 4.06%
Eastern Europe computed 0.9%
High-income countries computed 4.19%
Population below five meters above sea level — Romania, by year Romania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 0.33
2000 0.36
1990 0.37

Eastern Europe, 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.