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Biodiversity and Protected Areas — Protected Areas: IUCN categories I-VI and Other, percent of total land area Units: percent

		2006
World
World {1}		10.8
		2006
Region/Classification
Asia (excluding Middle East)		10.7
Central America & Caribbean		8.4
Europe		7.5
Middle East & North Africa		10.0
North America		9.5
Oceania		9.8
South America		17.7
Sub-Saharan Africa		10.9
Developed Countries		8.2
Developing Countries		12.6
High Income Countries		11.8
Low Income Countries		9.5
Middle Income Countries		10.8
	ISO	2006
Country
Afghanistan	AFG	0.3
Albania	ALB	0.7
Algeria	DZA	5.1
Andorra	AND	9.7
Angola	AGO	10.0
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	0.0
Argentina	ARG	6.3
Armenia	ARM	8.1
Australia	AUS	9.5
Austria	AUT	28.3
Azerbaijan	AZE	2.4
Bahamas	BHS	0.1
Bahrain	BHR	3.4
Bangladesh	BGD	0.7
Barbados	BRB	0.1
Belarus	BLR	5.2
Belgium	BEL	3.2
Belize	BLZ	36.0
Benin	BEN	22.0
Bermuda	BMU	5.3
Bhutan	BTN	31.5
Bolivia	BOL	20.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	0.5
Botswana	BWA	30.1
Brazil	BRA	17.8
British Virgin Islands	VGB	3.0
Brunei Darussalam	BRN	53.3
Bulgaria	BGR	10.0
Burkina Faso	BFA	14.0
Burundi	BDI	5.7
Cambodia	KHM	22.8
Cameroon	CMR	8.6
Canada	CAN	4.8
Cayman Islands	CYM	2.8
Côte d'Ivoire	CIV	12.1
Central African Rep	CAF	15.3
Chad	TCD	9.0
Chile	CHL	3.9
China	CHN	15.3
Colombia	COL	24.7
Congo	COG	14.1
Congo, Dem Rep	COD	8.4
Cook Islands	COK	2.8
Costa Rica	CRI	21.1
Croatia	HRV	5.9
Cuba	CUB	1.4
Cyprus	CYP	9.0
Czech Rep	CZE	15.9
Denmark	DNK	6.0
Dominica	DMA	46.8
Dominican Rep	DOM	25.0
Ecuador	ECU	24.6
Egypt	EGY	5.3
El Salvador	SLV	1.0
Equatorial Guinea	GNQ	17.1
Eritrea	ERI	4.2
Estonia	EST	43.9
Ethiopia	ETH	16.4
Falkland Islands	FLK	0.4
Fiji	FJI	0.9
Finland	FIN	8.9
France	FRA	10.2
French Guiana	GUF	6.2
French Polynesia	PYF	0.8
Gabon	GAB	13.3
Georgia	GEO	3.9
Germany	DEU	21.3
Ghana	GHA	15.1
Greece	GRC	3.2
Greenland	GRL	0.0
Grenada	GRD	3.5
Guadeloupe	GLP	31.1
Guam	GUM	3.6
Guatemala	GTM	32.2
Guinea	GIN	6.1
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	9.1
Guyana	GUY	2.3
Haiti	HTI	0.3
Honduras	HND	19.4
Hungary	HUN	5.7
Iceland	ISL	3.9
India	IND	4.8
Indonesia	IDN	11.0
Iran, Islamic Rep	IRN	6.2
Ireland	IRL	1.2
Israel	ISR	14.9
Italy	ITA	6.4
Jamaica	JAM	14.8
Japan	JPN	9.3
Jordan	JOR	10.7
Kazakhstan	KAZ	2.7
Kenya	KEN	11.8
Korea, Dem People's Rep	PRK	2.6
Korea, Rep	KOR	3.7
Kuwait	KWT	0.0
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ	3.1
Lao People's Dem Rep	LAO	16.3
Latvia	LVA	16.1
Lebanon	LBN	0.4
Lesotho	LSO	0.2
Liberia	LBR	15.9
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	LBY	0.1
Liechtenstein	LIE	57.4
Lithuania	LTU	5.5
Luxembourg	LUX	16.7
Macedonia, FYR	MKD	7.2
Madagascar	MDG	2.6
Malawi	MWI	15.7
Malaysia	MYS	18.2
Mali	MLI	2.1
Malta	MLT	21.4
Martinique	MTQ	81.7
Mauritius	MUS	4.8
Mexico	MEX	5.2
Micronesia, Fed States	FSM	32.7
Moldova, Rep	MDA	1.4
Mongolia	MNG	14.0
Morocco	MAR	1.2
Mozambique	MOZ	5.7
Myanmar	MMR	5.4
Namibia	NAM	5.2
Nepal	NPL	15.4
Netherlands	NLD	12.4
Netherlands Antilles	ANT	0.5
New Caledonia	NCL	7.2
New Zealand	NZL	24.2
Nicaragua	NIC	16.4
Niger	NER	7.1
Nigeria	NGA	6.2
Norway	NOR	5.1
Oman	OMN	0.1
Pakistan	PAK	7.4
Palau	PLW	0.0
Panama	PAN	10.3
Papua New Guinea	PNG	7.9
Paraguay	PRY	5.8
Peru	PER	13.6
Philippines	PHL	10.7
Poland	POL	24.2
Portugal	PRT	5.1
Puerto Rico	PRI	3.3
Qatar	QAT	0.0
Réunion	REU	8.0
Romania	ROU	2.2
Russian Federation	RUS	6.6
Rwanda	RWA	8.0
Saint Helena	SHN	24.9
Saint Kitts and Nevis	KNA	0.1
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM	44.3
Samoa	WSM	2.8
Saudi Arabia	SAU	42.3
Senegal	SEN	10.9
Serbia and Montenegro	YUG	3.2
Seychelles	SYC	17.2
Sierra Leone	SLE	4.0
Singapore	SGP	7.3
Slovakia	SVK	19.8
Slovenia	SVN	6.5
Solomon Islands	SLB	1.0
Somalia	SOM	0.3
South Africa	ZAF	6.0
Spain	ESP	8.2
Sri Lanka	LKA	17.5
St. Lucia	LCA	29.3
St. Vincent & Grenadines	VCT	18.6
Sudan	SDN	4.6
Suriname	SUR	12.9
Swaziland	SWZ	3.2
Sweden	SWE	9.6
Switzerland	CHE	28.2
Syrian Arab Rep	SYR	0.7
Tajikistan	TJK	13.6
Tanzania	TZA	36.4
Thailand	THA	19.7
Timor-Leste	TMP	6.1
Togo	TGO	10.7
Tonga	TON	24.4
Trinidad and Tobago	TTO	5.5
Tunisia	TUN	1.5
Turkey	TUR	1.6
Turkmenistan	TKM	2.3
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	3.1
Uganda	UGA	25.6
Ukraine	UKR	3.3
United Arab Emirates	ARE	0.3
United Kingdom	GBR	20.0
United States	USA	14.6
Uruguay	URY	0.3
Uzbekistan	UZB	2.0
Vanuatu	VUT	1.0
Venezuela	VEN	69.9
Viet Nam	VNM	5.0
Virgin Islands	VIR	0.3
Yemen	YEM	0.0
Zambia	ZMB	39.9
Zimbabwe	ZWE	14.6

Footnotes

1 - World

World total was calculated by WRI.

Source

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/.