Terrestrial protected areas in Qatar

Protected areas covered 15.6% of the land area of Qatar in 2025.

Measure: Terrestrial protected areas Unit: % of land area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Qatar, 2025 15.6% % of land area
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 15.6%
World, 2025 16.5% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 120th of 213 See the full ranking

Terrestrial protected areas in Qatar 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 QatarWorld
2025 15.6% 16.5%
2024 15.6% 16.4%
2023 15.8% 16.1%
2022 15.8% 15.9%
2021 15.8% 15.8%
2020 15.8% 15.4%
2019 13.2% 15.1%
2018 13.2% 15.0%
2017 13.2% 15.1%
2016 2.4% 14.9%
2015 2.4% 15.0%
2014 2.4% 15.2%
2013 2.4% 15.0%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 2.4%, the figure has changed by +13.2 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Qatar has the 120th 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 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