Protected areas in Qatar

Protected areas covered 5.8% of the territory of Qatar in 2025.

Measure: Terrestrial and marine protected areas Unit: % of total territorial area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Qatar, 2025 5.8% % of total territorial area
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 5.8%
World, 2025 17.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 138th of 213 See the full ranking

Protected areas in Qatar 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 QatarWorld
2025 5.8% 17.0%
2024 5.8% 15.3%
2023 5.8% 14.9%
2022 5.8% 14.9%
2021 5.8% 14.7%
2020 5.8% 14.8%
2019 4.7% 14.5%
2018 4.7% 14.1%
2017 4.7% 13.5%
2016 0.8% 13.2%
2015 0.8% 12.1%
2014 0.8% 11.9%
2013 0.8% 11.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 0.8%, the figure has changed by +5.0 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Qatar has the 138th 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 Qatar
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