![Bangkok, Thailand - November 4, 2011: Man with his family and dogs overlooking flooded street of Bangkok. Unusual heavy rains in July 2011 combined with high tides of the sea triggered massive flooding in Thailand. Approximately one third of all provinces are affected.](/binaries/web/sedac/featured-uses/thailandflood.jpg)
The widely distributed 2010-2011 World Resources Report: Decision Making in a Changing Climate includes coastal population estimates from SEDAC′s Population Landscape and Climate Estimates (PLACE) data collection. The data includes both the percentage of and a country′s actual population living within 10 kilometers of a coastline, and is based on SEDAC′s Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) population data set.