Terrestrial protected areas in Aruba

Protected areas covered 26.9% of the land area of Aruba in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.

Measure: Terrestrial protected areas Unit: % of land area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Aruba, 2025 26.9% % of land area
Change from 2024 +7.2percentage points 2024: 19.7%
World, 2025 16.5% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 54th of 213 See the full ranking

Terrestrial protected areas in Aruba over time

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% of land area. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Terrestrial protected areas (% of land area), 2013 to 2025
Period ArubaWorld
2025 26.9% 16.5%
2024 19.7% 16.4%
2023 18.9% 16.1%
2022 18.9% 15.9%
2021 18.9% 15.8%
2020 18.9% 15.4%
2019 18.9% 15.1%
2018 18.9% 15.0%
2017 18.9% 15.1%
2016 0.5% 14.9%
2015 0.5% 15.0%
2014 0.5% 15.2%
2013 0.5% 15.0%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +7.2 percentage points from 19.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 0.5%, the figure has changed by +26.4 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Aruba has the 54th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 16.5%.

Source and dates

Original producer
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.LND.PTLD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2013 to 2025 for Aruba
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas