Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) (World Bank WDI)
World Bank indicators. % (share) of population, annual.
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Data source: World Bank, wdi_lka.zip (8 Oct 2026)
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- Source World Bank, compiled by Macro Lab
- Unit % (share) of population
- Date range 1990 – 2015
- Last checked 8 Oct 2026
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- Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) (World Bank WDI)
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- World Bank: World Development Indicators and International Debt Statistics (World Bank)
- Source page
- https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka
- Licence
- Source: The World Bank. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
- Notes
- World Bank, World Development Indicators, EN.POP.EL5M.ZS, Sri Lanka. Data source (as the World Bank gives it): Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 3, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://doi.org/10.7927/d1x1-d702, publisher: NASA Earthdata GIS, date accessed: 202112, date published: 202112; CUNY Institute for Demographic Research (CIDR) - City University of New York, uri: https://doi.org/10.7927/d1x1-d702, publisher: NASA Earthdata GIS, date accessed: 202112 Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: The World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org/country/sri-lanka.
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