Terrestrial and marine protected areas
Protected land and marine areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, as a share of total territorial area including territorial waters.
Highest in 2025
99.5%
Monaco
Lowest in 2025
0.0%
Tuvalu
Euro area, 2025
20.6%
Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025
213
Updated by the source on 8 October 2026
213 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend 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.
| Period | Botswana | Namibia |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27.6% | 24.4% |
| 2024 | 29.1% | 24.4% |
| 2023 | 29.1% | 24.5% |
| 2022 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2021 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2020 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2019 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2018 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2017 | 29.1% | 23.3% |
| 2016 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2015 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2014 | 29.1% | 23.2% |
| 2013 | 29.1% | 26.9% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 213 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Monaco (99.5%) and the lowest Tuvalu (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 11.6% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 37 countries and fell in 18.
- The figure for the world was 17.0% in 2025, against 14.8% in 2020 (+2.1 percentage points).
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All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Monaco 99.5%
- 2 Palau 98.0%
- 3 New Caledonia 96.0%
- 4 Saint Martin (French part) 92.3%
- 5 French Polynesia 87.3%
- 6 Bhutan 51.6%
- 7 Liechtenstein 44.8%
- 8 United Kingdom 42.1%
- 9 Hong Kong SAR, China 42.0%
- 10 Zambia 41.3%
- 11 Slovenia 40.1%
- 12 Germany 40.0%
- 13 Luxembourg 39.1%
- 14 Venezuela 39.0%
- 15 Armenia 38.9%
- 16 Poland 38.1%
- 17 Chile 37.9%
- 18 Slovakia 37.5%
- 19 France 36.7%
- 20 Bulgaria 35.6%
- 21 Republic of the Congo 34.2%
- 22 Australia 33.5%
- 23 Seychelles 32.6%
- 24 Northern Mariana Islands 32.4%
- 25 Tanzania 32.3%
- 26 Cambodia 31.8%
- 27 Bolivia 30.9%
- 28 New Zealand 30.6%
- 29 Netherlands 29.8%
- 30 Austria 29.6%
- 31 Guinea 29.6%
- 32 Brazil 29.4%
- 33 North Macedonia 29.0%
- 34 Benin 28.8%
- 35 Zimbabwe 28.3%
- 36 Costa Rica 28.2%
- 37 Botswana 27.6%
- 38 Andorra 27.3%
- 39 Panama 27.2%
- 40 Belize 26.8%
- 41 Colombia 26.5%
- 42 Gabon 24.4%
- 43 Namibia 24.4%
- 44 Romania 24.3%
- 45 Croatia 24.1%
- 46 Denmark 23.8%
- 47 Nepal 23.6%
- 48 Lesotho 23.4%
- 49 Malawi 23.1%
- 50 Greenland 22.6%
- 51 Tajikistan 22.6%
- 52 Hungary 22.3%
- 53 Spain 22.1%
- 54 Togo 22.1%
- 55 Czechia 21.9%
- 56 Chad 21.0%
- 57 Niger 21.0%
- 58 Oman 20.8%
- 59 Bahrain 20.6%
- 60 Estonia 20.5%
- 61 Ecuador 20.2%
- 62 Mexico 19.9%
- 63 Mongolia 19.8%
- 64 Laos 18.8%
- 65 Belgium 18.6%
- 66 Lithuania 18.4%
- 67 Latvia 18.1%
- 68 Albania 18.0%
- 69 Mozambique 18.0%
- 70 Ukraine 17.9%
- 71 Georgia 17.4%
- 72 Portugal 17.2%
- 73 Ethiopia 17.0%
- 74 Saudi Arabia 17.0%
- 75 Burkina Faso 16.8%
- 76 Senegal 16.6%
- 77 Peru 16.5%
- 78 Montenegro 16.3%
- 79 Uganda 16.1%
- 80 United Arab Emirates 16.1%
- 81 Sweden 15.9%
- 82 United States 15.8%
- 83 South Sudan 15.4%
- 84 Dominican Republic 15.3%
- 85 Pakistan 15.2%
- 86 Japan 15.1%
- 87 Côte d'Ivoire 14.9%
- 88 Democratic Republic of the Congo 14.9%
- 89 Paraguay 14.9%
- 90 Central African Republic 14.8%
- 91 Italy 14.8%
- 92 China 14.7%
- 93 Gibraltar 14.4%
- 94 Uzbekistan 14.1%
- 95 Serbia 14.0%
- 96 Finland 13.5%
- 97 Thailand 13.4%
- 98 Guinea-Bissau 13.2%
- 99 South Africa 12.9%
- 100 Switzerland 12.5%
- 101 Israel 12.2%
- 102 Azerbaijan 12.0%
- 103 Kiribati 11.9%
- 104 Kazakhstan 11.8%
- 105 Kenya 11.8%
- 106 Canada 11.6%
- 107 Egypt 11.6%
- 108 Nigeria 11.6%
- 109 Kuwait 11.5%
- 110 Moldova 11.5%
- 111 Greece 11.2%
- 112 Cyprus 11.1%
- 113 Honduras 11.1%
- 114 Cameroon 11.0%
- 115 Guatemala 10.2%
- 116 Nicaragua 10.1%
- 117 West Bank and Gaza 10.0%
- 118 Argentina 9.7%
- 119 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.5%
- 120 Belarus 9.2%
- 121 Rwanda 9.1%
- 122 American Samoa 8.7%
- 123 Russia 8.6%
- 124 Suriname 8.6%
- 125 Malaysia 8.4%
- 126 Bahamas 8.3%
- 127 Malta 8.0%
- 128 Ghana 7.9%
- 129 Angola 7.7%
- 130 Burundi 7.6%
- 131 Brunei 7.5%
- 132 Mali 7.5%
- 133 Iran 7.0%
- 134 Cuba 6.9%
- 135 Kyrgyzstan 6.8%
- 136 Bangladesh 5.9%
- 137 South Korea 5.9%
- 138 Qatar 5.8%
- 139 Türkiye 5.7%
- 140 Jordan 5.4%
- 141 Norway 5.4%
- 142 Indonesia 5.2%
- 143 Tunisia 5.2%
- 144 Guyana 5.1%
- 145 Madagascar 5.1%
- 146 Sierra Leone 5.1%
- 147 Saint Kitts and Nevis 4.8%
- 148 Lebanon 4.7%
- 149 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 4.7%
- 150 Timor-Leste 4.7%
- 151 Isle of Man 4.6%
- 152 India 4.5%
- 153 Algeria 4.4%
- 154 Turkmenistan 4.3%
- 155 Eswatini 4.2%
- 156 Myanmar 4.1%
- 157 Ireland 4.0%
- 158 Sri Lanka 3.7%
- 159 Afghanistan 3.6%
- 160 Philippines 3.6%
- 161 Sudan 3.3%
- 162 Haiti 3.0%
- 163 Gambia 2.9%
- 164 Iceland 2.9%
- 165 Viet Nam 2.9%
- 166 Uruguay 2.4%
- 167 Puerto Rico (US) 2.3%
- 168 El Salvador 2.1%
- 169 Singapore 2.1%
- 170 Trinidad and Tobago 2.0%
- 171 Equatorial Guinea 1.8%
- 172 Jamaica 1.6%
- 173 Iraq 1.5%
- 174 Morocco 1.4%
- 175 North Korea 1.3%
- 176 Djibouti 1.2%
- 177 Liberia 1.2%
- 178 Fiji 1.0%
- 179 Mauritania 1.0%
- 180 Saint Lucia 1.0%
- 181 US Virgin Islands 0.9%
- 182 Antigua and Barbuda 0.8%
- 183 Comoros 0.7%
- 184 Papua New Guinea 0.7%
- 185 Syria 0.7%
- 186 Yemen 0.7%
- 187 Aruba 0.6%
- 188 Dominica 0.6%
- 189 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.5%
- 190 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.5%
- 191 Curaçao 0.3%
- 192 Marshall Islands 0.3%
- 193 Samoa 0.3%
- 194 Cabo Verde 0.2%
- 195 Grenada 0.2%
- 196 Libya 0.2%
- 197 Solomon Islands 0.2%
- 198 São Tomé and Príncipe 0.2%
- 199 Barbados 0.1%
- 200 Cayman Islands 0.1%
- 201 Maldives 0.1%
- 202 Tonga 0.1%
- 203 Vanuatu 0.1%
- 204 Bermuda 0.0%
- 205 British Virgin Islands 0.0%
- 206 Eritrea 0.0%
- 207 Faroe Islands 0.0%
- 208 Guam 0.0%
- 209 Mauritius 0.0%
- 210 Micronesia 0.0%
- 211 Naoero 0.0%
- 212 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.0%
- 213 Tuvalu 0.0%
- East Asia and Pacific 22.0%
- Euro area 20.6%
- Europe and Central Asia 13.2%
- European Union 21.1%
- Latin America and Caribbean 23.4%
- Middle East and North Africa 7.8%
- North America 13.7%
- OECD members 21.1%
- South Asia 4.6%
- Sub-Saharan Africa 14.0%
- World 17.0%
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