Terrestrial protected areas in OECD members
Protected areas covered 17.0% of the land area of OECD member countries in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.
OECD members is a group: OECD member countries as grouped by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
OECD members, 2025
17.0%
Change from 2024
0percentage points
World, 2025
16.5%
Terrestrial protected areas in OECD members 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.
| Period | OECD members | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.0% | 16.5% |
| 2024 | 16.9% | 16.4% |
| 2023 | 16.5% | 16.1% |
| 2022 | 16.6% | 15.9% |
| 2021 | 16.4% | 15.8% |
| 2020 | 15.2% | 15.4% |
| 2019 | 15.6% | 15.1% |
| 2018 | 15.1% | 15.0% |
| 2017 | 15.2% | 15.1% |
| 2016 | 14.6% | 14.9% |
| 2015 | 13.8% | 15.0% |
| 2014 | 14.1% | 15.2% |
| 2013 | 13.9% | 15.0% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of 0 percentage points from 16.9% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 13.8%, the figure has changed by +3.1 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 16.5%.