Terrestrial protected areas in Uganda

Protected areas covered 16.1% of the land area of Uganda in 2025.

Measure: Terrestrial protected areas Unit: % of land area Data: 2013 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Uganda, 2025 16.1% % of land area
Change from 2024 0percentage points 2024: 16.1%
World, 2025 16.5% Official aggregate
Position in 2025 117th of 213 See the full ranking

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

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 16.1%, the figure has changed by 0 percentage points.
  • Among the 213 countries with data for 2025, Uganda has the 117th 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 Uganda
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