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Global mean sea level

Global mean sea level relative to the start of the series, from the CSIRO reconstruction published by the US EPA, since 1880.

226.4 mmWorld · 2013

CSIRO sea level reconstruction (via US EPA Climate Change Indicators)Retrieved: 2026-11-05
Saved data version: retrieved 2026-11-05, ID 30801acc7d17Warehouse version at build: v45
Data coverage
  • World: 1880–2013; observations: 134; missing years: 0

Missing years are counted between the first and last observations. A missing value is not zero.

World

134 rows for World

Time range:
−50.00.050.0100.0150.0200.0250.018801900192019401960198020002013226.4
Year

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World

Period statistics

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World

0.0→226.4

Total change
+226.4 mm (anomaly)
Period
1880–2013

World: 0.0 (1880) → 226.4 (2013). Difference: +226.4 mm (anomaly). Peak value of 234.8 in 2012; lowest value of −11.2 in 1882.

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Global mean sea level — World
YearCountryValue
2013World226.4 mm
2012World234.8 mm
2011World226 mm
2010World224.4 mm
2009World216.7 mm
2008World210.9 mm
2007World202.2 mm
2006World200.3 mm
2005World196 mm
2004World195.9 mm
2003World196.3 mm
2002World187.1 mm
2001World184.7 mm
2000World179.2 mm
1999World177.9 mm
1998World169.4 mm
1997World179.3 mm
1996World172.3 mm
1995World168.2 mm
1994World165.3 mm
Source
CSIRO sea level reconstruction (via US EPA Climate Change Indicators)
Licence
Public domain (U.S. EPA); cite CSIRO (Church and White, 2011)
Published by source
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Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator code in source
CSIRO Adjusted Sea Level
Unit of measure
mm (anomaly)
Data version
v45

Cite

Longseries, “Global mean sea level”. CSIRO sea level reconstruction (via US EPA Climate Change Indicators) (CSIRO Adjusted Sea Level), 1880–2013, World. Church, J. A., and N. J. White (2011), Sea-level rise from the late 19th to the early 21st century, Surveys in Geophysics, 32, 585–602, doi:10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1. Retrieved 2026-11-05. Public domain (U.S. EPA); cite CSIRO (Church and White, 2011). Data version v45. Data SHA-256: 30801acc7d1756698db5e0d67f93baccfa8a1265f70bf528460cf5d1cf52282c. https://longseries.com/en/d/climate-sea-level/

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World2013226.4 mm226.4 mm

About this series

CSIRO reconstruction (Church and White, 2011), as published in the “Climate Change Indicators” of the US EPA. Annual global mean sea level, 1880–2013; the reconstruction ends in 2013. Only complete years.

Indicator definition

Change in global mean sea level relative to the start of the series, in millimetres. A positive value means a higher sea level. This is not the absolute height of the water at any one place.

How to read the data

Sea level rise is speeding up: it was slower in the 20th century, and since the 1990s the rate has been clearly higher than at the start of the series. The main causes are ocean warming and melting land ice; see Global temperature anomaly (NASA). Single years vary little, so look at decades.

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