Protected areas in Ethiopia

Protected areas covered 17.0% of the territory of Ethiopia in 2025.

Measure: Terrestrial and marine protected areas Unit: % of total territorial area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Ethiopia, 2025 17.0% % of total territorial area
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 17.0%
World, 2025 17.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 74th of 213 See the full ranking

Protected areas in Ethiopia over time

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

Terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area), 2013 to 2025
Period EthiopiaWorld
2025 17.0% 17.0%
2024 17.0% 15.3%
2023 17.0% 14.9%
2022 17.0% 14.9%
2021 17.0% 14.7%
2020 16.1% 14.8%
2019 17.6% 14.5%
2018 17.6% 14.1%
2017 18.5% 13.5%
2016 18.5% 13.2%
2015 18.5% 12.1%
2014 18.5% 11.9%
2013 18.5% 11.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 18.5%, the figure has changed by −1.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Ethiopia has the 74th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 17.0%.

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.PTD.TOTL.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2013 to 2025 for Ethiopia
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