Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Togo

Population below five meters above sea level in Togo in 2015 — 1.13%. Ranked 67 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.5 pp.

2015 1.13% −0.31 pp vs 2000
World rank 67of 215
Period maximum 1.63%1990
Period minimum 1.13%2015

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Togo, 1990–201511.21.41.61.81990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 1.63%2000: 1.44%2015: 1.13%
Change over the period: −0.5 pp Annual average: -0.02 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Togo 1.13%
World 4.06%
Western Africa computed 3.33%
Low-income countries computed 1.05%
Population below five meters above sea level — Togo, by year Togo All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 1.13
2000 1.44
1990 1.63

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.