Population below five meters above sea level in the United States Virgin Islands in 2015 — 4.65%. Ranked 135 in the world out of 215. Since 1990, the indicator has fallen by 0.09 pp.
1990–2015 · % of population
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: United States Virgin Islands
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4.65 | — |
| 2000 | 4.59 | — |
| 1990 | 4.74 | — |
The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages
Curaçao
1.68
Dominican Republic
1.84
Barbados
2.21
Cuba
2.5
Saint Lucia
3.18
Trinidad and Tobago
4.02
Haiti
4.07
United States Virgin Islands
4.65
Aruba
5
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
5.11
Grenada
5.85
Saint Kitts and Nevis
7.45
Sint Maarten
8.06
Puerto Rico
8.06
Jamaica
9.15
Antigua and Barbuda
12.19
British Virgin Islands
12.73
Dominica
12.86
Bahamas
12.86
Cayman Islands
17.62
Turks and Caicos Islands
20.76
Saint Martin
28.68
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.
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