Units: Percent
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| Biodiversity and Protected Areas — Protected Areas: IUCN categories I-V, percent of total land area Units: Percent |
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| World | ||
| World {1} | 6.2 | |
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| Region/Classification | ||
| Asia (excluding Middle East) | 9.5 | |
| Central America & Caribbean | 2.4 | |
| Europe | 5.4 | |
| Middle East & North Africa | 2.9 | |
| North America | 5.6 | |
| Oceania | 6.8 | |
| South America | 5.8 | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 5.9 | |
| Developed Countries | 5.6 | |
| Developing Countries | 6.5 | |
| High Income Countries | 6.2 | |
| Low Income Countries | 5.9 | |
| Middle Income Countries | 6.3 | |
| ISO | 2006 | |
| Country | ||
| Afghanistan | AFG | 0.3 |
| Albania | ALB | 0.7 |
| Algeria | DZA | 5.1 |
| Angola | AGO | 4.2 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 0.0 |
| Argentina | ARG | 2.1 |
| Armenia | ARM | 8.1 |
| Australia | AUS | 6.6 |
| Austria | AUT | 28.3 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 2.4 |
| Bahamas | BHS | 0.1 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 3.4 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 0.5 |
| Barbados | BRB | 0.1 |
| Belarus | BLR | 5.2 |
| Belgium | BEL | 2.6 |
| Belize | BLZ | 19.3 |
| Benin | BEN | 6.6 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 4.3 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 31.5 |
| Bolivia | BOL | 11.5 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 0.5 |
| Botswana | BWA | 18.2 |
| Brazil | BRA | 3.7 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 3.0 |
| Brunei Darussalam | BRN | 22.6 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 5.4 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 10.4 |
| Burundi | BDI | 5.7 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 20.6 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 7.4 |
| Canada | CAN | 4.0 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 2.8 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | CIV | 6.1 |
| Central African Rep | CAF | 11.8 |
| Chad | TCD | 9.0 |
| Chile | CHL | 3.8 |
| China | CHN | 14.8 |
| Colombia | COL | 8.3 |
| Congo | COG | 10.4 |
| Congo, Dem Rep | COD | 5.1 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 8.7 |
| Croatia | HRV | 5.9 |
| Cuba | CUB | 0.9 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 7.7 |
| Czech Rep | CZE | 15.9 |
| Denmark | DNK | 6.0 |
| Dominica | DMA | 24.3 |
| Dominican Rep | DOM | 23.5 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 9.1 |
| Egypt | EGY | 4.1 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 17.0 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 4.2 |
| Estonia | EST | 7.7 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 4.9 |
| Falkland Islands | FLK | 0.4 |
| Fiji | FJI | 0.9 |
| Finland | FIN | 3.0 |
| France | FRA | 10.2 |
| French Guiana | GUF | 6.2 |
| French Polynesia | PYF | 0.8 |
| Gabon | GAB | 0.3 |
| Georgia | GEO | 3.9 |
| Germany | DEU | 21.3 |
| Ghana | GHA | 4.6 |
| Greece | GRC | 1.9 |
| Greenland | GRL | 0.0 |
| Guadeloupe | GLP | 31.1 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 8.3 |
| Guinea | GIN | 0.2 |
| Guyana | GUY | 2.3 |
| Haiti | HTI | 0.3 |
| Honduras | HND | 7.2 |
| Hungary | HUN | 5.7 |
| Iceland | ISL | 3.9 |
| India | IND | 4.7 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 4.4 |
| Iran, Islamic Rep | IRN | 6.1 |
| Ireland | IRL | 1.1 |
| Israel | ISR | 10.5 |
| Italy | ITA | 4.5 |
| Japan | JPN | 8.8 |
| Jordan | JOR | 10.4 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 2.7 |
| Kenya | KEN | 6.0 |
| Korea, Dem People's Rep | PRK | 2.6 |
| Korea, Rep | KOR | 3.7 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 0.0 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 3.0 |
| Latvia | LVA | 13.8 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 0.3 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.2 |
| Liberia | LBR | 1.4 |
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | LBY | 0.1 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 57.4 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 5.4 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 14.4 |
| Macedonia, FYR | MKD | 7.1 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 2.0 |
| Malawi | MWI | 9.0 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 5.4 |
| Mali | MLI | 2.0 |
| Malta | MLT | 21.4 |
| Martinique | MTQ | 81.7 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 4.8 |
| Mexico | MEX | 0.6 |
| Micronesia, Fed States | FSM | 32.7 |
| Moldova, Rep | MDA | 1.4 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 13.5 |
| Morocco | MAR | 0.8 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 4.1 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 4.8 |
| Namibia | NAM | 3.9 |
| Nepal | NPL | 6.7 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 4.2 |
| New Caledonia | NCL | 3.3 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 24.0 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 6.0 |
| Niger | NER | 7.1 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 3.8 |
| Norway | NOR | 5.1 |
| Oman | OMN | 0.1 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 3.8 |
| Palau | PLW | 0.0 |
| Panama | PAN | 6.6 |
| Papua New Guinea | PNG | 0.5 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 4.2 |
| Peru | PER | 3.1 |
| Philippines | PHL | 7.4 |
| Poland | POL | 8.4 |
| Portugal | PRT | 5.1 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 0.1 |
| Qatar | QAT | 0.0 |
| Réunion | REU | 8.0 |
| Romania | ROU | 1.8 |
| Russian Federation | RUS | 4.7 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 8.0 |
| Saint Helena | SHN | 22.7 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 0.1 |
| Samoa | WSM | 2.8 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 2.0 |
| Senegal | SEN | 10.6 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | YUG | 2.9 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 16.7 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 2.0 |
| Singapore | SGP | 7.3 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 7.5 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 6.5 |
| Solomon Islands | SLB | 0.9 |
| Somalia | SOM | 0.3 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 5.3 |
| Spain | ESP | 7.9 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 8.8 |
| St. Lucia | LCA | 4.7 |
| St. Vincent & Grenadines | VCT | 18.6 |
| Sudan | SDN | 3.5 |
| Suriname | SUR | 12.9 |
| Swaziland | SWZ | 2.1 |
| Sweden | SWE | 9.3 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 28.2 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 13.6 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 14.6 |
| Thailand | THA | 19.7 |
| Togo | TGO | 7.6 |
| Tonga | TON | 24.4 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 5.5 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 0.2 |
| Turkey | TUR | 0.6 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 2.3 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 3.1 |
| Uganda | UGA | 7.0 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 3.3 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 10.6 |
| United States | USA | 7.5 |
| Uruguay | URY | 0.2 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 1.9 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 33.0 |
| Viet Nam | VNM | 4.8 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 8.4 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 7.9 |
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| Footnotes |
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| 1 - World |
| World total was calculated by WRI. |
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| United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). 2006. World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Data set available on CD-ROM. Cambridge, U.K: UNEP-WCMC. Online at http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/. |
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