Protected areas in Sint Maarten (Dutch part)

Protected areas covered 4.7% of the territory of Sint Maarten (Dutch part) in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2016.

Measure: Terrestrial and marine protected areas Unit: % of total territorial area Data: 2016 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Sint Maarten (Dutch part), 2025 4.7% % of total territorial area
Change from 2024 −0.1percentage points 2024: 4.8%
World, 2025 17.0% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 150th of 213 See the full ranking

Protected areas in Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 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 Sint Maarten (Dutch part)World
2025 4.7% 17.0%
2024 4.8% 15.3%
2023 8.2% 14.9%
2022 8.2% 14.9%
2021 8.2% 14.7%
2020 8.1% 14.8%
2019 8.1% 14.5%
2018 8.1% 14.1%
2017 8.1% 13.5%
2016 5.0% 13.2%
2015 – 12.1%
2014 – 11.9%
2013 – 11.1%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 4.8% in 2024.
  • Since 2016, when it was 5.0%, the figure has changed by −0.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Sint Maarten (Dutch part) has the 150th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 17.0%.

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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
2016 to 2025 for Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
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