Protected areas in Niger

Protected areas covered 21.0% of the territory of Niger in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.

Measure: Terrestrial and marine protected areas Unit: % of total territorial area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Niger, 2025 21.0% % of total territorial area
Change from 2024 +2.8percentage points 2024: 18.2%
World, 2025 17.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 57th of 213 See the full ranking

Protected areas in Niger 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 NigerWorld
2025 21.0% 17.0%
2024 18.2% 15.3%
2023 18.2% 14.9%
2022 18.2% 14.9%
2021 18.2% 14.7%
2020 18.2% 14.8%
2019 17.3% 14.5%
2018 17.3% 14.1%
2017 17.3% 13.5%
2016 17.3% 13.2%
2015 17.3% 12.1%
2014 17.3% 11.9%
2013 16.7% 11.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.8 percentage points from 18.2% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 17.3%, the figure has changed by +3.7 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Niger has the 57th 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 Niger
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