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Indicators / Land and air

Protected areas

% of territory · World Bank World Development Indicators, ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS

Countries with any figure: 213
Years: 2013–2025
Compare on: 2025 213 countries
Newest year: 2025 213 countries
Every year: 207 countries
Stop before 2025: 0 countries

Statistical offices report at different speeds, so the newest year usually has fewer countries than the years before it. A country's "latest" figure elsewhere on this site can therefore be from different years for different countries; rankings only compare countries with a figure for the same year.

Compare countries on this indicator

Countries with a figure for Protected areas, each yearThe best-covered year has 213 countries. 2025 is the last year with at least 90% of that (213); 2025 has 213.

Show the numbers (13 rows)

Year	Countries with a figure
2025	213
2024	213
2023	213
2022	213
2021	213
2020	212
2019	212
2018	211
2017	211
2016	211
2015	209
2014	208
2013	207

Which countries have figures for Protected areas, by year213 countries have at least one figure from 2013 to 2025; 207 have every year, 1 has gaps, and 0 stop before 2025.

Point at a row to see the country and its years.

Years with a figure
Country stops before 2025
End of 2025, the last year at least 90% of countries report

Get this data

This page's numbers, as JSON:

curl https://visualizedata.org/data/indicators/protected-share.json

The World Bank API it comes from (live, no key):

curl "https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS?format=json&per_page=30000&date=1960:2030"

Open the JSON

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators: ER.PTD.TOTL.ZS (CC BY 4.0)
Updated several times a year; each indicator has its own latest year.
Countries are the datasites geo registry's; regional and income-group aggregates are left out.
Built 2026-10-26.