# **Table 5. Poverty in Countries with Coastal Populations, 2000**

||**Populati**<br>**Areas wit**<br>**Infant Mo**<br>**(millio**<br>**Total**|**on in**<br>**h High**<br>**rtality**<br>**ns)**<br>**Rural**|**Rural**<br>**Share**<br>**(%)**|**Populat**<br>**Areas**<br>**Malnour**<br>**Child**<br>**(millio**<br>**Total**|**ion in**<br>**with**<br>**ished**<br>**ren**<br>**ns)**<br>**Rural**|**Rural**<br>**Share**<br>**(%)**|**Share (%)**<br>**of Rural**<br>**Population**<br>**in Areas**<br>**with High**<br>**Infant**<br>**Mortality**|**Share (%) of**<br>**Rural**<br>**Population in**<br>**Areas with**<br>**Malnourished**<br>**Children**|**LECZ**<br>**Share (%)**<br>**of Rural**<br>**Population**<br>**in Areas**<br>**with High**<br>**Infant**<br>**Mortality**|**LECZ Share**<br>**(%) of Rural**<br>**Population in**<br>**Areas with**<br>**Malnourished**<br>**Children**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Developing Country**|**1,818.2**|**1,287.5**|**70.8%**|**977.7**|**680.0**|**69.5%**|**48.7%**|**25.7%**|**5.0%**|**9.2%**|
|_By Income:_|||||||||||
|Low Income|337.8|265.2|78.5%|145.5|116.0|79.7%|83.0%|36.3%|12.9%|21.5%|
|Lower Middle Income|1,192.2|844.8|70.9%|717.7|506.5|70.6%|63.0%|37.8%|3.2%|6.7%|
|Upper Middle Income|288.2|177.5|61.6%|114.5|57.4|50.1%|18.0%|5.8%|1.8%|5.6%|
|_By Region:_|||||||||||
|East Asia & Pacific|234.4|168.8|72.0%|187.5|123.9|66.1%|17.1%|12.5%|7.6%|19.4%|
|Europe & Central Asia|0.0|0.0|--|4.4|1.4|32.3%|0.0%|1.9%|0.0%|6.2%|
|Latin America & Caribbean|42.5|27.8|65.4%|34.2|15.9|46.6%|14.3%|8.2%|4.3%|3.7%|
|Middle East & North Africa|94.0|44.3|47.1%|26.9|13.5|50.1%|36.7%|11.1%|4.3%|6.1%|
|South Asia|1,026.0|752.9|73.4%|595.3|432.3|72.6%|79.6%|45.7%|5.3%|8.1%|
|Sub-Saharan Africa|421.2|293.6|69.7%|125.0|90.4|72.3%|92.5%|28.5%|2.7%|2.2%|
|**Developed Country**|**0.5**|**0.4**|**85.3%**|**9.2**|**2.8**|**30.5%**|**0.2%**|**1.0%**|**4.3%**|**3.5%**|
|**World**|**1,818.7 **|**1,287.9 **|**70.8%**|**987.0**|**682.8 **|**69.2%**|**44.1%**|**23.4%**|**5.0%**|**9.2%**|

Coastal populations are those living within 100 kilometers (km) of the coast, and excluding countries without territory within 100 km of a coastline measured using an Azimuthal Equidistant (world) projection.

The low elevation coastal zone (LECZ) is the contiguous area along the coast that is less than 10 m above sea level.

High infant mortality is 50 or more deaths within the first year of life per 1,000 births (or 500 deaths/10,000 live births).

Child malnutrition counts are the product of malnutrition rates and population counts. Malnutrition rates are based on the percentage of children with a weight‐for‐age z‐score more than two standard deviations below the median of the NCHS/CDC/WHO International Reference Population.

See the appendix for details on the spatial methods in calculating these coastal population distributions.

Low‐income economies are those in which 2013 per capita income was $1,045 or less, lower‐middle‐income economies are those in which 2013 per capita income was between $1,046 and $4,125, upper‐middle‐income economies are those in which 2013 per capita income was between $4,126 and $12,745, and developed countries are those in which 2013 per capita income was more than $12,745 , as defined by the World Development Indicators, available at <u>http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/variableselection/selectvariables.aspx?source=world‐development‐ indicators.</u> 16