Population below five meters above sea level — all countries

Population below five meters above sea level — Trinidad and Tobago

Population below five meters above sea level in Trinidad and Tobago in 2015 — 4.02%. Ranked 123 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.07 pp.

2015 4.02% −0.02 pp vs 2000
World rank 123of 215
Period maximum 4.09%1990
Period minimum 4.02%2015

Trend over time

1990–2015 · % of population

Population below five meters above sea level — Trinidad and Tobago, 1990–201544.024.044.064.084.11990199319961999200220052008201120141990: 4.09%2000: 4.04%2015: 4.02%
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: Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago 4.02%
World 4.06%
Caribbean computed 3.94%
High-income countries computed 4.19%
Population below five meters above sea level — Trinidad and Tobago, by year Trinidad and Tobago All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 4.02
2000 4.04
1990 4.09

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.