Terrestrial protected areas in Oman

Protected areas covered 28.9% of the land area of Oman in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2013.

Measure: Terrestrial protected areas Unit: % of land area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Oman, 2025 28.9% % of land area
Change from 2024 +6.9percentage points 2024: 22.0%
World, 2025 16.5% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 43rd of 213 See the full ranking

Terrestrial protected areas in Oman 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.

Terrestrial protected areas (% of land area), 2013 to 2025
Period OmanWorld
2025 28.9% 16.5%
2024 22.0% 16.4%
2023 3.9% 16.1%
2022 3.6% 15.9%
2021 3.6% 15.8%
2020 2.6% 15.4%
2019 2.6% 15.1%
2018 2.6% 15.0%
2017 2.6% 15.1%
2016 2.6% 14.9%
2015 2.6% 15.0%
2014 2.6% 15.2%
2013 10.6% 15.0%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +6.9 percentage points from 22.0% in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 2.6%, the figure has changed by +26.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Oman has the 43rd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 16.5%.

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.LND.PTLD.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2013 to 2025 for Oman
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