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Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

Name: Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: social, % (share) of land area, rural, land, area, where, elevation, below, meters, total

Latest available country observation from World Bank World Development Indicators, through 2015. Countries can have different observation years; compare broad patterns rather than treating all values as one survey wave.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•215 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

5.8% (share) of land area

Median: 1.4% (share) of land area

Countries Covered

215

with available data

Highest

Marshall Islands

79.4% (share) of land area

Lowest

Botswana

0.0% (share) of land area

Top 5 Countries

1Marshall Islands79.4% (share) of land area

2Maldives76.6% (share) of land area

3Bahamas69.5% (share) of land area

4Tuvalu68.0% (share) of land area

5Kiribati67.2% (share) of land area

By Region

Other7.6% (share) of land area(135 countries)

Asia3.6% (share) of land area(26 countries)

Europe2.9% (share) of land area(32 countries)

Oceania2.7% (share) of land area(2 countries)

North America1.4% (share) of land area(4 countries)

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0% (share) of land area)High (79.4% (share) of land area)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 5.8% (share) of land area)

Other (135)

Asia (26)

Europe (32)

Oceania (2)

North America (4)

South America (7)

Africa (9)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Methodology

Country values are taken from the latest observation available in the linked source series.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Marshall Islands	79.4% (share) of land area
2	Maldives	76.6% (share) of land area
3	Bahamas	69.5% (share) of land area
4	Tuvalu	68.0% (share) of land area
5	Kiribati	67.2% (share) of land area
6	Turks and Caicos Islands	62.9% (share) of land area
7	Cayman Islands	49.4% (share) of land area
8	Virgin Islands, British	40.6% (share) of land area
9	Netherlands	39.7% (share) of land area
10	French Polynesia	29.8% (share) of land area
11	Seychelles	25.1% (share) of land area
12	Micronesia, Federated States of	20.0% (share) of land area
13	Republic of The Gambia	18.7% (share) of land area
14	Bermuda	18.0% (share) of land area
15	Bahrain	17.6% (share) of land area
16	American Samoa	17.4% (share) of land area
17	Tonga	16.7% (share) of land area
18	Antigua and Barbuda	16.5% (share) of land area
19	Guinea-Bissau	16.0% (share) of land area
20	Palau	15.7% (share) of land area
21	Cuba	14.8% (share) of land area
22	Saint Martin (French part)	14.2% (share) of land area
23	Macao	14.1% (share) of land area
24	Northern Mariana Islands	12.6% (share) of land area
25	Denmark	12.6% (share) of land area
26	Virgin Islands, U.S.	12.5% (share) of land area
27	Belize	12.3% (share) of land area
28	Vietnam	12.3% (share) of land area
29	Bangladesh	10.7% (share) of land area
30	Qatar	10.7% (share) of land area
31	Fiji	8.2% (share) of land area
32	Kuwait	8.1% (share) of land area
33	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	8.0% (share) of land area
34	Nauru	7.6% (share) of land area
35	Saint Kitts and Nevis	7.5% (share) of land area
36	Indonesia	7.4% (share) of land area
37	Solomon Islands	7.3% (share) of land area
38	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6.9% (share) of land area
39	Hong Kong	6.8% (share) of land area
40	Singapore	6.6% (share) of land area
41	Curaçao	6.4% (share) of land area
42	Malaysia	6.4% (share) of land area
43	Trinidad and Tobago	6.3% (share) of land area
44	Aruba	6.3% (share) of land area
45	Suriname	6.2% (share) of land area
46	Nicaragua	5.9% (share) of land area
47	Grenada	5.8% (share) of land area
48	New Caledonia	5.3% (share) of land area
49	Cape Verde	5.3% (share) of land area
50	Sierra Leone	5.2% (share) of land area
51	Guyana	5.1% (share) of land area
52	Greenland	5.1% (share) of land area
53	Malta	5.1% (share) of land area
54	Brunei Darussalam	4.9% (share) of land area
55	Puerto Rico	4.8% (share) of land area
56	Guam	4.6% (share) of land area
57	New Zealand	4.6% (share) of land area
58	Myanmar	4.5% (share) of land area
59	Honduras	4.5% (share) of land area
60	Panama	4.4% (share) of land area
61	Senegal	4.3% (share) of land area
62	Vanuatu	4.2% (share) of land area
63	Philippines	4.1% (share) of land area
64	Papua New Guinea	3.8% (share) of land area
65	Jamaica	3.7% (share) of land area
66	United Kingdom	3.7% (share) of land area
67	Belgium	3.7% (share) of land area
68	El Salvador	3.6% (share) of land area
69	Albania	3.5% (share) of land area
70	Saint Lucia	3.5% (share) of land area
71	Thailand	3.5% (share) of land area
72	Isle of Man	3.4% (share) of land area
73	United Arab Emirates	3.4% (share) of land area
74	Estonia	3.4% (share) of land area
75	Comoros	3.4% (share) of land area
76	Sao Tome and Principe	3.3% (share) of land area
77	Greece	3.3% (share) of land area
78	Germany	3.1% (share) of land area
79	Sri Lanka	3.1% (share) of land area
80	Italy	2.9% (share) of land area
81	Costa Rica	2.9% (share) of land area
82	Iraq	2.8% (share) of land area
83	Faroe Islands	2.8% (share) of land area
84	Mexico	2.7% (share) of land area
85	Mauritius	2.7% (share) of land area
86	Dominica	2.6% (share) of land area
87	South Korea	2.5% (share) of land area
88	Dominican Republic	2.3% (share) of land area
89	Haiti	2.1% (share) of land area
90	Mozambique	2.0% (share) of land area
91	Nigeria	2.0% (share) of land area
92	Samoa	2.0% (share) of land area
93	Ireland	2.0% (share) of land area
94	Iceland	1.8% (share) of land area
95	Barbados	1.8% (share) of land area
96	Cyprus	1.8% (share) of land area
97	Latvia	1.7% (share) of land area
98	Cambodia	1.7% (share) of land area
99	Norway	1.6% (share) of land area
100	Portugal	1.6% (share) of land area
101	North Korea	1.5% (share) of land area
102	Venezuela	1.5% (share) of land area
103	Chile	1.5% (share) of land area
104	Timor-Leste	1.5% (share) of land area
105	Croatia	1.5% (share) of land area
106	Japan	1.5% (share) of land area
107	Gabon	1.4% (share) of land area
108	United States of America	1.4% (share) of land area
109	Romania	1.4% (share) of land area
110	France	1.4% (share) of land area
111	Guinea	1.3% (share) of land area
112	Georgia	1.3% (share) of land area
113	Pakistan	1.3% (share) of land area
114	Eritrea	1.3% (share) of land area
115	Tunisia	1.3% (share) of land area
116	Monaco	1.2% (share) of land area
117	Madagascar	1.2% (share) of land area
118	Ecuador	1.2% (share) of land area
119	Finland	1.2% (share) of land area
120	Colombia	1.1% (share) of land area
121	Mauritania	1.1% (share) of land area
122	India	1.0% (share) of land area
123	Egypt	1.0% (share) of land area
124	Poland	1.0% (share) of land area
125	Liberia	1.0% (share) of land area
126	Sweden	0.9% (share) of land area
127	Benin	0.9% (share) of land area
128	Brazil	0.8% (share) of land area
129	Ukraine	0.8% (share) of land area
130	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.8% (share) of land area
131	Equatorial Guinea	0.8% (share) of land area
132	Oman	0.7% (share) of land area
133	Australia	0.7% (share) of land area
134	Guatemala	0.7% (share) of land area
135	Djibouti	0.7% (share) of land area
136	Russian Federation	0.7% (share) of land area
137	Lithuania	0.7% (share) of land area
138	Spain	0.6% (share) of land area
139	Canada	0.6% (share) of land area
140	Gibraltar	0.6% (share) of land area
141	Argentina	0.6% (share) of land area
142	Ghana	0.6% (share) of land area
143	Montenegro	0.6% (share) of land area
144	Uruguay	0.6% (share) of land area
145	Türkiye	0.5% (share) of land area
146	Cote d'Ivoire	0.5% (share) of land area
147	Libya	0.5% (share) of land area
148	People's Republic of China	0.5% (share) of land area
149	Cameroon	0.5% (share) of land area
150	Yemen	0.4% (share) of land area
151	Saudi Arabia	0.4% (share) of land area
152	Togo	0.3% (share) of land area
153	Peru	0.3% (share) of land area
154	Kenya	0.3% (share) of land area
155	Somalia	0.2% (share) of land area
156	Republic of the Congo	0.2% (share) of land area
157	Lebanon	0.2% (share) of land area
158	Namibia	0.2% (share) of land area
159	Morocco	0.2% (share) of land area
160	United Republic of Tanzania	0.2% (share) of land area
161	Israel	0.2% (share) of land area
162	Angola	0.2% (share) of land area
163	South Africa	0.1% (share) of land area
164	Bulgaria	0.1% (share) of land area
165	Sudan	0.1% (share) of land area
166	Slovenia	0.0% (share) of land area
167	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.0% (share) of land area
168	State of Palestine	0.0% (share) of land area
169	Algeria	0.0% (share) of land area
170	Syrian Arab Republic	0.0% (share) of land area
171	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0% (share) of land area
172	Jordan	0.0% (share) of land area
173	Burundi	0.0% (share) of land area
174	Belarus	0.0% (share) of land area
175	Central African Republic	0.0% (share) of land area
176	Chad	0.0% (share) of land area
177	Czech Republic	0.0% (share) of land area
178	Ethiopia	0.0% (share) of land area
179	Hungary	0.0% (share) of land area
180	Kazakhstan	0.0% (share) of land area
181	Kyrgyzstan	0.0% (share) of land area
182	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.0% (share) of land area
183	Lesotho	0.0% (share) of land area
184	Liechtenstein	0.0% (share) of land area
185	Luxembourg	0.0% (share) of land area
186	Malawi	0.0% (share) of land area
187	Mali	0.0% (share) of land area
188	Mongolia	0.0% (share) of land area
189	Moldova, Republic of	0.0% (share) of land area
190	Nepal	0.0% (share) of land area
191	Niger	0.0% (share) of land area
192	Paraguay	0.0% (share) of land area
193	Rwanda	0.0% (share) of land area
194	San Marino	0.0% (share) of land area
195	Serbia	0.0% (share) of land area
196	Slovakia	0.0% (share) of land area
197	Zimbabwe	0.0% (share) of land area
198	South Sudan	0.0% (share) of land area
199	Eswatini	0.0% (share) of land area
200	Switzerland	0.0% (share) of land area
201	Tajikistan	0.0% (share) of land area
202	Turkmenistan	0.0% (share) of land area
203	Uganda	0.0% (share) of land area
204	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.0% (share) of land area
205	Burkina Faso	0.0% (share) of land area
206	Uzbekistan	0.0% (share) of land area
207	Zambia	0.0% (share) of land area
208	Afghanistan	0.0% (share) of land area
209	Andorra	0.0% (share) of land area
210	Azerbaijan	0.0% (share) of land area
211	Austria	0.0% (share) of land area
212	Armenia	0.0% (share) of land area
213	Bhutan	0.0% (share) of land area
214	Bolivia	0.0% (share) of land area
215	Botswana	0.0% (share) of land area

Showing 215 of 215 countries

Topics

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2015).

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