Fig 1.
Foresight scenarios A-D of future population growth and implementation through UN demographic variants.
Assumptions of future population growth for the Foresight scenarios A-D were taken from [38, 39]. Included in this figure are global scenario results which are based on UN variants of population growth (‘LOW’, ‘MEDIUM’, ‘HIGH’) [46–48] as well as development status.
Table 1.
Details on the implemented socio-economic scenarios A-D including population growth variants and coastal correction factors (a, b).
Table 2.
Metrics and data employed for the LECZ and 100-year flood plain baseline assessments (year 2000).
Table 3.
Metrics and data employed for the LECZ and flood plain scenario analyses.
Fig 2.
LECZ population in the year 2000 and projections for 2030/2060 per continent, scenarios A-D.
Fig 3.
LECZ population in Asia in the year 2000 and projections for 2030/2060 per region, scenario C.
Included are totals of LECZ population in Africa for the baseline year 2000 and for 2030/2060.
Fig 4.
LECZ population in Africa in the year 2000 and projections for 2030/29160 per region, scenario C.
Table 4.
LECZ population in the year 2000 and projections for 2030/2060 per continent and development status, scenarios A-D.
Table 5.
Population projections for the LECZ and the 100-year flood plain for 2030/2060 per continent, scenarios A-D.
Table 6.
Top 25 coastal countries with highest LECZ population in the year 2000, ranked by LECZ population.
Table 7.
Top 25 countries with highest LECZ population and people in the 100-year flood plain in 2030/2060, ranked by LECZ Scenario C 2060.
Table 8.
People in the 100-year flood plain in the year 2000 and projections for 2030/2060 per continent and development status, scenarios A-D.
Fig 5.
LECZ Population in the year 2000 and for 2030/2060 per country, scenario C.
Population estimates (year 2010) and projections (year 2025) for selected megacities (> 8 million people) located in the LECZ were derived from the UN’s World Urbanization Prospects [79].
Table 9.
Comparison of different studies estimating the LECZ land area and population for the year 2000.