Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (1 m)
WorldPhysical EnvironmentSocial / HealthAreas vulnerable to a 1-meter rise in sea level
ETOPO1A map shows global sea-level rise vulnerability (1 meter). The highest vulnerability areas, marked in blue, are along coastlines, notably in the United States, Europe, parts of Asia, and Australia.
Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability (1 m) | Austronesian | Austronesian and Papuan | English | English and areas of persisting indigenous languages | Papuan | Albanian | Baltic | Basque | Celtic | Germanic | Greek | Hungarian | Romance | Slavic | Turkic | Uralic | Less than 20°F | 20–29°F | 30–39°F | 40–49°F | |
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| 2.59% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.97% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.22% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.06% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.93% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.12% | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 24.9% | 81.6% | 7.90% | 15.2% | 24.9% | 86.2% | ||||||||||||||||
| 3.22% | 98.9% | 99.6% | 2.48% | 2.34% | 67.3% | 66.3% | 29.7% | 47.1% | 71.9% | 4.30% | 31.1% | ||||||||||
| 2.34% | 87.5% | 51.2% | |||||||||||||||||||
| 45.0% | 11.1% | 5.76% | 1.23% | ||||||||||||||||||
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