People on low coastal land
Everyone living on land at or below 10 m above the sea, country by country, from open elevation and population grids.
People on low coastal land, by country
Ordered by name. Each country’s provinces and districts carry the same figure on its Regions pages.
| Country | People (GHSL) | On land ≤ 10 m | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 44,451,126 | 0 | 0% |
| Albania | 2,799,930 | 229,682 | 8.2% |
| Algeria | 45,646,159 | 694,599 | 1.5% |
| Andorra | 79,156 | 0 | 0% |
| Angola | 37,946,864 | 1,356,994 | 3.6% |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 76,625 | 8,756 | 11.4% |
| Argentina | 42,614,779 | 3,360,169 | 7.9% |
| Armenia | 2,775,535 | 0 | 0% |
| Australia | 25,591,990 | 2,618,064 | 10.2% |
| Austria | 8,950,023 | 0 | 0% |
| Azerbaijan | 10,486,334 | 520,940 | 5% |
| Bahamas | 272,116 | 186,804 | 68.6% |
| Bahrain | 1,204,090 | 563,608 | 46.8% |
| Bangladesh | 173,596,379 | 71,570,460 | 41.2% |
| Barbados | 241,962 | 11,483 | 4.7% |
| Belarus | 9,438,455 | 0 | 0% |
| Belgium | 11,658,002 | 2,148,077 | 18.4% |
| Belize | 319,493 | 82,362 | 25.8% |
| Benin | 14,274,250 | 2,220,794 | 15.6% |
| Bhutan | 949,591 | 0 | 0% |
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 12,805,897 | 0 | 0% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3,136,467 | 7,569 | 0.2% |
| Botswana | 2,744,497 | 0 | 0% |
| Brazil | 214,580,921 | 12,108,773 | 5.6% |
| Brunei Darussalam | 433,353 | 82,869 | 19.1% |
| Bulgaria | 6,394,434 | 63,082 | 1% |
| Burkina Faso | 24,421,150 | 0 | 0% |
| Burundi | 13,582,627 | 0 | 0% |
| Cabo Verde | 524,787 | 15,362 | 2.9% |
| Cambodia | 17,147,956 | 3,020,083 | 17.6% |
| Cameroon | 30,207,405 | 1,024,103 | 3.4% |
| Canada | 37,158,643 | 1,846,011 | 5% |
| Central African Republic | 6,155,698 | 0 | 0% |
| Chad | 19,333,229 | 0 | 0% |
| Chile | 18,964,601 | 332,315 | 1.8% |
| China | 1,435,842,028 | 207,549,958 | 14.5% |
| Colombia | 51,640,010 | 1,993,780 | 3.9% |
| Comoros | 689,014 | 48,666 | 7.1% |
| Congo | 5,934,103 | 66,551 | 1.1% |
| Costa Rica | 5,131,846 | 66,815 | 1.3% |
| Côte d’Ivoire | 30,099,098 | 2,169,192 | 7.2% |
| Croatia | 3,738,153 | 52,448 | 1.4% |
| Cuba | 10,507,349 | 605,528 | 5.8% |
| Cyprus | 1,163,690 | 69,480 | 6% |
| Czechia | 10,490,472 | 0 | 0% |
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | 25,209,695 | 3,255,827 | 12.9% |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 108,742,594 | 27,533 | 0% |
| Denmark | 5,419,860 | 1,085,841 | 20% |
| Djibouti | 1,048,403 | 268,141 | 25.6% |
| Dominica | 59,211 | 655 | 1.1% |
| Dominican Republic | 11,085,426 | 570,730 | 5.1% |
| Ecuador | 18,036,194 | 2,528,455 | 14% |
| Egypt | 114,912,293 | 31,221,754 | 27.2% |
| El Salvador | 6,399,762 | 85,834 | 1.3% |
| Equatorial Guinea | 1,321,747 | 72,805 | 5.5% |
| Eritrea | 3,898,675 | 108,715 | 2.8% |
| Estonia | 1,256,204 | 93,954 | 7.5% |
| Eswatini | 1,243,938 | 0 | 0% |
| Ethiopia | 132,545,597 | 734 | 0% |
| Fiji | 788,707 | 166,845 | 21.2% |
| Finland | 5,206,991 | 359,087 | 6.9% |
| France | 64,200,452 | 2,367,500 | 3.7% |
| Gabon | 2,144,744 | 225,114 | 10.5% |
| Gambia | 2,861,360 | 462,920 | 16.2% |
| Georgia | 3,640,854 | 146,974 | 4% |
| Germany | 83,041,272 | 3,319,605 | 4% |
| Ghana | 34,438,559 | 1,094,631 | 3.2% |
| Greece | 9,293,100 | 437,175 | 4.7% |
| Grenada | 78,306 | 3,090 | 3.9% |
| Guatemala | 18,465,143 | 147,805 | 0.8% |
| Guinea | 14,760,962 | 1,168,216 | 7.9% |
| Guinea-Bissau | 2,242,759 | 517,209 | 23.1% |
| Guyana | 544,780 | 343,371 | 63% |
| Haiti | 11,356,995 | 662,760 | 5.8% |
| Holy See | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Honduras | 10,687,882 | 284,624 | 2.7% |
| Hungary | 9,827,466 | 0 | 0% |
| Iceland | 287,182 | 25,528 | 8.9% |
| India | 1,451,700,000 | 86,354,818 | 5.9% |
| Indonesia | 270,364,422 | 46,264,310 | 17.1% |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 89,630,095 | 1,880,096 | 2.1% |
| Iraq | 47,562,393 | 6,691,338 | 14.1% |
| Ireland | 4,968,662 | 362,163 | 7.3% |
| Israel | 8,913,137 | 241,605 | 2.7% |
| Italy | 56,287,443 | 3,238,512 | 5.8% |
| Jamaica | 2,534,769 | 197,343 | 7.8% |
| Japan | 116,435,561 | 24,909,499 | 21.4% |
| Jordan | 11,403,419 | 5,341 | 0% |
| Kazakhstan | 20,001,863 | 154,682 | 0.8% |
| Kenya | 56,803,392 | 389,362 | 0.7% |
| Kiribati | 10,549 | 2,766 | 26.2% |
| Kuwait | 4,173,430 | 601,261 | 14.4% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 7,115,223 | 0 | 0% |
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 7,825,107 | 0 | 0% |
| Latvia | 1,762,021 | 466,288 | 26.5% |
| Lebanon | 4,473,807 | 131,719 | 2.9% |
| Lesotho | 2,374,111 | 0 | 0% |
| Liberia | 5,130,335 | 1,074,830 | 21% |
| Libya | 6,821,301 | 950,880 | 13.9% |
| Liechtenstein | 28,626 | 0 | 0% |
| Lithuania | 2,664,743 | 105,670 | 4% |
| Luxembourg | 644,996 | 0 | 0% |
| Madagascar | 30,784,941 | 1,351,746 | 4.4% |
| Malawi | 21,636,156 | 0 | 0% |
| Malaysia | 33,835,818 | 7,159,509 | 21.2% |
| Maldives | 81,444 | 963 | 1.2% |
| Mali | 24,786,585 | 0 | 0% |
| Malta | 475,859 | 9,374 | 2% |
| Marshall Islands | 5,801 | 118 | 2% |
| Mauritania | 4,999,373 | 1,695,259 | 33.9% |
| Mauritius | 1,167,524 | 31,152 | 2.7% |
| Mexico | 128,913,927 | 6,378,252 | 4.9% |
| Micronesia (Federated States of) | 34,348 | 1,342 | 3.9% |
| Monaco | 0 | 0 | 0% |
| Mongolia | 3,542,013 | 0 | 0% |
| Montenegro | 580,795 | 11,207 | 1.9% |
| Morocco | 38,247,371 | 1,244,965 | 3.3% |
| Mozambique | 35,074,016 | 2,575,310 | 7.3% |
| Myanmar | 53,399,412 | 13,415,951 | 25.1% |
| Namibia | 2,699,112 | 71,030 | 2.6% |
| Nauru | 10,936 | 901 | 8.2% |
| Nepal | 31,666,626 | 0 | 0% |
| Netherlands | 17,758,127 | 8,481,061 | 47.8% |
| New Zealand | 4,800,633 | 488,120 | 10.2% |
| Nicaragua | 7,111,478 | 106,690 | 1.5% |
| Niger | 29,424,933 | 0 | 0% |
| Nigeria | 234,374,583 | 12,236,784 | 5.2% |
| North Macedonia | 2,077,104 | 0 | 0% |
| Norway | 4,823,947 | 149,414 | 3.1% |
| Oman | 4,556,495 | 646,999 | 14.2% |
| Pakistan | 248,923,944 | 7,355,357 | 3% |
| Palau | 6,256 | 452 | 7.2% |
| Panama | 4,458,934 | 406,215 | 9.1% |
| Papua New Guinea | 9,810,599 | 225,219 | 2.3% |
| Paraguay | 6,897,228 | 0 | 0% |
| Peru | 34,243,929 | 604,730 | 1.8% |
| Philippines | 106,171,279 | 16,138,538 | 15.2% |
| Poland | 39,514,497 | 586,283 | 1.5% |
| Portugal | 9,736,607 | 419,284 | 4.3% |
| Qatar | 2,662,344 | 413,223 | 15.5% |
| Republic of Korea | 50,045,713 | 3,316,638 | 6.6% |
| Republic of Moldova | 3,239,392 | 117,841 | 3.6% |
| Romania | 19,516,269 | 373,295 | 1.9% |
| Russian Federation | 142,275,523 | 3,500,568 | 2.5% |
| Rwanda | 15,066,385 | 0 | 0% |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 28,440 | 1,192 | 4.2% |
| Saint Lucia | 138,639 | 4,386 | 3.2% |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 79,288 | 1,198 | 1.5% |
| Samoa | 170,592 | 9,453 | 5.5% |
| San Marino | 31,010 | 0 | 0% |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 200,412 | 11,059 | 5.5% |
| Saudi Arabia | 37,472,601 | 3,410,075 | 9.1% |
| Senegal | 17,669,534 | 3,715,278 | 21% |
| Serbia | 7,072,515 | 0 | 0% |
| Seychelles | 50,608 | 1,567 | 3.1% |
| Sierra Leone | 8,674,754 | 529,787 | 6.1% |
| Singapore | 5,729,391 | 683,345 | 11.9% |
| Slovakia | 5,637,288 | 0 | 0% |
| Slovenia | 2,136,268 | 8,025 | 0.4% |
| Solomon Islands | 426,567 | 15,348 | 3.6% |
| Somalia | 19,189,489 | 601,264 | 3.1% |
| South Africa | 61,303,671 | 653,536 | 1.1% |
| South Sudan | 11,501,063 | 0 | 0% |
| Spain | 45,015,441 | 2,081,770 | 4.6% |
| Sri Lanka | 20,827,403 | 2,728,693 | 13.1% |
| State of Palestine | 5,320,442 | 35,637 | 0.7% |
| Sudan | 50,680,332 | 302,247 | 0.6% |
| Suriname | 636,322 | 462,460 | 72.7% |
| Sweden | 10,174,155 | 1,008,059 | 9.9% |
| Switzerland | 8,790,659 | 0 | 0% |
| Syrian Arab Republic | 24,775,377 | 75,906 | 0.3% |
| Tajikistan | 10,462,934 | 0 | 0% |
| Thailand | 71,631,249 | 27,143,137 | 37.9% |
| Timor-Leste | 1,299,744 | 41,426 | 3.2% |
| Togo | 9,231,979 | 591,413 | 6.4% |
| Tonga | 48,756 | 13,898 | 28.5% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1,417,102 | 207,574 | 14.6% |
| Tunisia | 12,108,216 | 1,550,669 | 12.8% |
| Türkiye | 83,663,328 | 2,225,227 | 2.7% |
| Turkmenistan | 6,993,462 | 63,805 | 0.9% |
| Tuvalu | 1,141 | 126 | 11% |
| Uganda | 50,696,068 | 0 | 0% |
| Ukraine | 38,734,182 | 714,375 | 1.8% |
| United Arab Emirates | 8,645,312 | 3,040,083 | 35.2% |
| United Kingdom | 65,822,230 | 5,939,827 | 9% |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 71,011,763 | 594,834 | 0.8% |
| United States of America | 343,810,111 | 25,269,883 | 7.3% |
| Uruguay | 3,015,422 | 268,800 | 8.9% |
| Uzbekistan | 36,032,487 | 3 | 0% |
| Vanuatu | 235,347 | 8,907 | 3.8% |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 28,911,044 | 1,748,350 | 6% |
| Viet Nam | 98,577,627 | 52,708,471 | 53.5% |
| Yemen | 35,433,249 | 593,283 | 1.7% |
| Zambia | 22,407,009 | 0 | 0% |
| Zimbabwe | 17,384,526 | 0 | 0% |
How the zone is counted
- Elevation
- GEBCO 2024 Grid at 15 arc-seconds, reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land pixels at or below 10 m above mean sea level.
- People
- GHSL 2025 population on the same 0.05° grid; a cell’s people count in the zone in proportion to that share.
- Units
- Summed inside each first- and second-level boundary; a country is the sum of its first-level units.
- Limits
- A 0.05° cell is about 5 km; defences, subsidence and tides are not modelled. A source observation for exposure, not an index value.
Sources, credits and licences
- Elevation
- GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid, doi:10.5285/1c44ce99-0a0d-5f4f-e063-7086abc0ea0f (public domain)
- People
- GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0)
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