The Global Risks Index
NXS-GRX · Planet · Every surface

The whole planet, land, sea and ice

Oceans and seas, exclusive economic zones, the high seas, Antarctica and every area outside the country sites, on relief maps with their sources.

Page GRX-PLANETEdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30Values not yet publishedSnapshot 31a753f76
FIG 1 · Oceans and seas
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Zones over sea-floor and land relief · Terrain TilesRisk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifth
Area km² by zone, in quantile fifths among the zones shown. Source observations, not index values. Boundaries, names and zones are shown as recorded by their sources, for location only. They take no position on the status of any territory, on any claim or on the delimitation of any boundary.
295
oceans and seas
285
economic zones
222,474,790
km² of high seas
74
areas beyond the countries
02Sources

Sources, credits and licences

Natural Earth 1:10m marine areas
Made with Natural Earth (1:10m geography marine polygons, public domain) · source
Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Exclusive Economic Zones (200 NM), v12
Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Marine Regions, www.marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0) · source. Marine Regions data are not meant for legal, economic (resource exploration) or navigational purposes.
Natural Earth
Made with Natural Earth (1:10m admin-0 map units, public domain) · source
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader's browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Position
Boundaries, names and zones are shown as recorded by their sources, for location only. They take no position on the status of any territory, on any claim or on the delimitation of any boundary.