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Countries Ranked by Terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area)

Showing every country with available data for 2025 • World Bank: ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area) data for 2025, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 213 countries reporting, the median value is 11.60, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Palau

98.00

Europe & Central Asia

Monaco

99.50

Latin America & Caribbean

St. Martin (French part)

92.30

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Oman

20.80

North America

United States

15.80

South Asia

Bhutan

51.60

Sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia

41.30

Rank Country Terrestrial and marine protected areas (% of total territorial area)
1 Monaco 99.50
2 Palau 98.00
3 New Caledonia 96.00
4 St. Martin (French part) 92.30
5 French Polynesia 87.30
6 Bhutan 51.60
7 Liechtenstein 44.80
8 United Kingdom 42.10
9 Hong Kong SAR, China 42.00
10 Zambia 41.30
11 Slovenia 40.10
12 Germany 40.00
13 Luxembourg 39.10
14 Venezuela, RB 39.00
15 Armenia 38.90
16 Poland 38.10
17 Chile 37.90
18 Slovak Republic 37.50
19 France 36.70
20 Bulgaria 35.60
21 Congo, Rep. 34.20
22 Australia 33.50
23 Seychelles 32.60
24 Northern Mariana Islands 32.40
25 Tanzania 32.30
26 Cambodia 31.80
27 Bolivia 30.90
28 New Zealand 30.60
29 Netherlands 29.80
30 Guinea 29.60
31 Austria 29.60
32 Brazil 29.40
33 North Macedonia 29.00
34 Benin 28.80
35 Zimbabwe 28.30
36 Costa Rica 28.20
37 Botswana 27.60
38 Andorra 27.30
39 Panama 27.20
40 Belize 26.80
41 Colombia 26.50
42 Gabon 24.40
43 Namibia 24.40
44 Romania 24.30
45 Croatia 24.10
46 Denmark 23.80
47 Nepal 23.60
48 Lesotho 23.40
49 Malawi 23.10
50 Tajikistan 22.60
51 Greenland 22.60
52 Hungary 22.30
53 Spain 22.10
54 Togo 22.10
55 Czechia 21.90
56 Chad 21.00
57 Niger 21.00
58 Oman 20.80
59 Bahrain 20.60
60 Estonia 20.50
61 Ecuador 20.20
62 Mexico 19.90
63 Mongolia 19.80
64 Lao PDR 18.80
65 Belgium 18.60
66 Lithuania 18.40
67 Latvia 18.10
68 Albania 18.00
69 Mozambique 18.00
70 Ukraine 17.90
71 Georgia 17.40
72 Portugal 17.20
73 Saudi Arabia 17.00
74 Ethiopia 17.00
75 Burkina Faso 16.80
76 Senegal 16.60
77 Peru 16.50
78 Montenegro 16.30
79 Uganda 16.10
80 United Arab Emirates 16.10
81 Sweden 15.90
82 United States 15.80
83 South Sudan 15.40
84 Dominican Republic 15.30
85 Pakistan 15.20
86 Japan 15.10
87 Cote d'Ivoire 14.90
88 Paraguay 14.90
89 Congo, Dem. Rep. 14.90
90 Italy 14.80
91 Central African Republic 14.80
92 China 14.70
93 Gibraltar 14.40
94 Uzbekistan 14.10
95 Serbia 14.00
96 Finland 13.50
97 Thailand 13.40
98 Guinea-Bissau 13.20
99 South Africa 12.90
100 Switzerland 12.50
101 Israel 12.20
102 Azerbaijan 12.00
103 Kiribati 11.90
104 Kenya 11.80
105 Kazakhstan 11.80
106 Egypt, Arab Rep. 11.60
107 Nigeria 11.60
108 Canada 11.60
109 Moldova 11.50
110 Kuwait 11.50
111 Greece 11.20
112 Cyprus 11.10
113 Honduras 11.10
114 Cameroon 11.00
115 Guatemala 10.20
116 Nicaragua 10.10
117 West Bank and Gaza 10.00
118 Argentina 9.70
119 Bosnia and Herzegovina 9.50
120 Belarus 9.20
121 Rwanda 9.10
122 American Samoa 8.70
123 Suriname 8.60
124 Russian Federation 8.60
125 Malaysia 8.40
126 Bahamas, The 8.30
127 Malta 8.00
128 Ghana 7.90
129 Angola 7.70
130 Burundi 7.60
131 Brunei Darussalam 7.50
132 Mali 7.50
133 Iran, Islamic Rep. 7.00
134 Cuba 6.90
135 Kyrgyz Republic 6.80
136 Korea, Rep. 5.90
137 Bangladesh 5.90
138 Qatar 5.80
139 Turkiye 5.70
140 Jordan 5.40
141 Norway 5.40
142 Indonesia 5.20
143 Tunisia 5.20
144 Sierra Leone 5.10
145 Madagascar 5.10
146 Guyana 5.10
147 St. Kitts and Nevis 4.80
148 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 4.70
149 Timor-Leste 4.70
150 Lebanon 4.70
151 Isle of Man 4.60
152 India 4.50
153 Algeria 4.40
154 Turkmenistan 4.30
155 Eswatini 4.20
156 Myanmar 4.10
157 Ireland 4.00
158 Sri Lanka 3.70
159 Philippines 3.60
160 Afghanistan 3.60
161 Sudan 3.30
162 Haiti 3.00
163 Viet Nam 2.90
164 Gambia, The 2.90
165 Iceland 2.90
166 Uruguay 2.40
167 Puerto Rico (US) 2.30
168 El Salvador 2.10
169 Singapore 2.10
170 Trinidad and Tobago 2.00
171 Equatorial Guinea 1.80
172 Jamaica 1.60
173 Iraq 1.50
174 Morocco 1.40
175 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 1.30
176 Djibouti 1.20
177 Liberia 1.20
178 Fiji 1.00
179 Mauritania 1.00
180 St. Lucia 1.00
181 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 0.90
182 Antigua and Barbuda 0.80
183 Yemen, Rep. 0.70
184 Syrian Arab Republic 0.70
185 Papua New Guinea 0.70
186 Comoros 0.70
187 Dominica 0.60
188 Aruba 0.60
189 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.50
190 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.50
191 Marshall Islands 0.30
192 Curacao 0.30
193 Samoa 0.30
194 Libya 0.20
195 Grenada 0.20
196 Sao Tome and Principe 0.20
197 Solomon Islands 0.20
198 Cabo Verde 0.20
199 Maldives 0.10
200 Cayman Islands 0.10
201 Vanuatu 0.10
202 Barbados 0.10
203 Tonga 0.10
204 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 0.00
205 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.00
206 British Virgin Islands 0.00
207 Bermuda 0.00
208 Tuvalu 0.00
209 Nauru 0.00
210 Guam 0.00
211 Mauritius 0.00
212 Faroe Islands 0.00
213 Eritrea 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2025; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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