Protected areas in Maldives

Protected areas covered 0.1% of the territory of Maldives in 2025.

Measure: Terrestrial and marine protected areas Unit: % of total territorial area Data: 2014 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Maldives, 2025 0.1% % of total territorial area
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 0.1%
World, 2025 17.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 203rd of 213 See the full ranking

Protected areas in Maldives 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 MaldivesWorld
2025 0.1% 17.0%
2024 0.1% 15.3%
2023 0.1% 14.9%
2022 0.1% 14.9%
2021 0.1% 14.7%
2020 0.1% 14.8%
2019 0.1% 14.5%
2018 0.1% 14.1%
2017 0.1% 13.5%
2016 0.0% 13.2%
2015 0.0% 12.1%
2014 0.0% 11.9%
2013 – 11.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 0.0%, the figure has changed by +0.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Maldives has the 203rd 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
2014 to 2025 for Maldives
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