environmental2025

Marine protected areas (% of territorial waters)

Name: Marine protected areas (% of territorial waters)
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trend-research-200, world-bank, environment-water-forests-biodiversity, marine, protected, areas, territorial, waters

Compare marine protected areas (% of territorial waters) across 174 countries using the latest fixed-year World Bank WDI observations for 2025.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•174 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

10.3%

Median: 2.2%

Countries Covered

174

with available data

Highest

Monaco

100.0%

Lowest

Brunei Darussalam

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1Monaco100.0%

2Palau98.0%

3Saint Martin (French part)97.0%

4New Caledonia96.5%

5French Polynesia87.4%

By Region

Oceania37.9%(2 countries)

South America21.4%(7 countries)

Europe19.1%(25 countries)

North America12.9%(4 countries)

Other8.7%(103 countries)

Key Findings

•174 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Monaco has the highest published value (100 %).
•Angola has the lowest published value (0 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (100.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 10.3%)

Oceania (2)

South America (7)

Europe (25)

North America (4)

Other (103)

Asia (25)

Africa (8)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Marine protected areas are areas of intertidal or subtidal terrain--and overlying water and associated flora and fauna and historical and cultural features--that have been reserved by law or other effective means to protect part or all of the enclosed environment.

Values use one fixed 2025 reference year from World Development Indicators series ER.MRN.PTMR.ZS. MapTheory excludes aggregates, missing/non-finite values, and geographies without an ISO 3166-1 numeric mapping; it does not interpolate missing countries.

Methodology

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Monaco	100.0%
2	Palau	98.0%
3	Saint Martin (French part)	97.0%
4	New Caledonia	96.5%
5	French Polynesia	87.4%
6	Kazakhstan	52.5%
7	France	49.2%
8	United Kingdom	46.8%
9	Australia	45.4%
10	Germany	45.3%
11	Chile	41.2%
12	Colombia	41.1%
13	Belgium	38.3%
14	Netherlands	33.5%
15	Seychelles	32.6%
16	Northern Mariana Islands	32.4%
17	New Zealand	30.4%
18	Costa Rica	28.4%
19	Denmark	27.1%
20	Gabon	26.8%
21	Brazil	26.6%
22	Panama	26.3%
23	Poland	24.0%
24	Lithuania	23.2%
25	Mexico	22.6%
26	Ukraine	21.6%
27	Romania	21.5%
28	Bahrain	21.4%
29	Belize	20.4%
30	Ecuador	19.3%
31	Estonia	19.2%
32	Spain	19.0%
33	United States of America	19.0%
34	Sudan	17.0%
35	Portugal	16.9%
36	Latvia	16.4%
37	Oman	16.2%
38	Sweden	16.1%
39	South Africa	15.4%
40	Gibraltar	14.2%
41	Republic of the Congo	14.1%
42	Japan	13.8%
43	Dominican Republic	13.3%
44	United Arab Emirates	12.0%
45	Argentina	12.0%
46	Kiribati	11.9%
47	Finland	11.8%
48	Cameroon	11.4%
49	Italy	11.0%
50	Isle of Man	10.8%
51	Croatia	9.3%
52	Canada	9.2%
53	Guinea-Bissau	9.1%
54	American Samoa	8.7%
55	Cyprus	8.6%
56	Bangladesh	8.6%
57	Bulgaria	8.2%
58	Peru	7.9%
59	Malta	7.8%
60	Bahamas	7.7%
61	Montenegro	5.3%
62	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	5.1%
63	Egypt	5.1%
64	Thailand	5.0%
65	Honduras	4.9%
66	People's Republic of China	4.8%
67	Malaysia	4.8%
68	Greece	4.7%
69	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4.5%
70	Venezuela	4.4%
71	Cuba	4.2%
72	Greenland	4.2%
73	Turkmenistan	4.2%
74	Mauritania	3.7%
75	Nicaragua	3.6%
76	Saudi Arabia	3.5%
77	Albania	3.4%
78	Kuwait	3.2%
79	Senegal	3.1%
80	Indonesia	3.0%
81	Slovenia	2.9%
82	Jordan	2.8%
83	Ireland	2.4%
84	South Korea	2.3%
85	Qatar	2.3%
86	United Republic of Tanzania	2.3%
87	Russian Federation	2.2%
88	Mozambique	2.1%
89	Puerto Rico	2.1%
90	Haiti	1.8%
91	Namibia	1.7%
92	Sierra Leone	1.7%
93	Türkiye	1.7%
94	Philippines	1.6%
95	Cambodia	1.5%
96	Suriname	1.5%
97	Uruguay	1.5%
98	Madagascar	1.4%
99	Pakistan	1.2%
100	Tunisia	1.1%
101	Norway	1.0%
102	Azerbaijan	1.0%
103	Fiji	0.9%
104	Guatemala	0.9%
105	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.9%
106	Benin	0.8%
107	El Salvador	0.8%
108	Georgia	0.8%
109	Virgin Islands, U.S.	0.8%
110	Republic of The Gambia	0.7%
111	Jamaica	0.7%
112	Kenya	0.7%
113	Timor-Leste	0.7%
114	Togo	0.7%
115	Antigua and Barbuda	0.7%
116	Myanmar	0.6%
117	Guinea	0.6%
118	Israel	0.6%
119	Libya	0.6%
120	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.5%
121	Iceland	0.5%
122	Vietnam	0.5%
123	Comoros	0.4%
124	Aruba	0.4%
125	Yemen	0.4%
126	Sri Lanka	0.3%
127	Equatorial Guinea	0.3%
128	India	0.3%
129	Morocco	0.3%
130	Marshall Islands	0.3%
131	Saint Lucia	0.3%
132	Djibouti	0.2%
133	Cote d'Ivoire	0.2%
134	Lebanon	0.2%
135	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.2%
136	Syrian Arab Republic	0.2%
137	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.2%
138	Samoa	0.2%
139	Cape Verde	0.1%
140	Cayman Islands	0.1%
141	Dominica	0.1%
142	Grenada	0.1%
143	Liberia	0.1%
144	Maldives	0.1%
145	Papua New Guinea	0.1%
146	Tonga	0.1%
147	Trinidad and Tobago	0.1%
148	Algeria	0.1%
149	Solomon Islands	0.1%
150	Eritrea	0.0%
151	Faroe Islands	0.0%
152	State of Palestine	0.0%
153	Ghana	0.0%
154	Guam	0.0%
155	Guyana	0.0%
156	Hong Kong	0.0%
157	Iraq	0.0%
158	North Korea	0.0%
159	Mauritius	0.0%
160	Nauru	0.0%
161	Curaçao	0.0%
162	Vanuatu	0.0%
163	Nigeria	0.0%
164	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.0%
165	Sao Tome and Principe	0.0%
166	Singapore	0.0%
167	Somalia	0.0%
168	Tuvalu	0.0%
169	Angola	0.0%
170	Barbados	0.0%
171	Bermuda	0.0%
172	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0%
173	Virgin Islands, British	0.0%
174	Brunei Darussalam	0.0%

Showing 174 of 174 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #world-bank #environment-water-forests-biodiversity #marine #protected #areas #territorial #waters

Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2025).

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