Protected areas in Euro area
Protected areas covered 20.6% of the territory of the euro area in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.
Euro area is a group: Euro area; membership follows each source definition (World Bank EMU, ECB U2 changing composition). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Euro area, 2025
20.6%
Change from 2024
+0.8percentage points
World, 2025
17.0%
Protected areas in Euro area 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.
| Period | Euro area | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20.6% | 17.0% |
| 2024 | 19.8% | 15.3% |
| 2023 | 19.5% | 14.9% |
| 2022 | 19.5% | 14.9% |
| 2021 | 19.5% | 14.7% |
| 2020 | 19.4% | 14.8% |
| 2019 | 19.1% | 14.5% |
| 2018 | 18.2% | 14.1% |
| 2017 | 17.3% | 13.5% |
| 2016 | 15.4% | 13.2% |
| 2015 | 14.4% | 12.1% |
| 2014 | 13.5% | 11.9% |
| 2013 | 13.5% | 11.1% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.8 percentage points from 19.8% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 14.4%, the figure has changed by +6.2 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 17.0%.