Terrestrial protected areas (% of total surface area) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators

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Rank	Country	Value
Terrestrial protected areas (% of total surface area) - Millennium Development Goals Indicators (2008)
1	Venezuela	71.35
2	Brunei Darussalam	59.32
3	Cayman Islands	58
4	Germany	56.19
5	Seychelles	55.60
6	Kiribati	55.01
7	High income: nonOECD	54.31
8	Estonia	46.78
9	Belize	44.53
10	Hong Kong	44.14
11	Zambia	41.06
12	Liechtenstein	40.05
13	Greenland	39.73
14	Tanzania	38.77
15	Saudi Arabia	38.35
16	Trinidad and Tobago	35
17	Israel	34.45
18	Guatemala	32.73
19	Costa Rica	31.01
20	Botswana	30.14
21	Brazil	29.64
22	New Zealand	29.48
23	Switzerland	28.58
24	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.48
25	Dominican Republic	28.46
26	Panama	28.08
27	Austria	27.99
28	United States	27.08
29	Dominica	26.69
30	Bhutan	26.40
31	Colombia	26.20
32	Uganda	26.09
33	Tonga	25.53
34	Ecuador	25.44
35	Senegal	25.01
36	Poland	24.29
37	Cambodia	23.97
38	Benin	23.16
39	Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)	22.78
40	United Kingdom	22.35
41	Marshall Islands	21.78
42	Bolivia	21.21
43	Ivory Coast	21.14
44	Honduras	20.99
45	Jamaica	20.90
46	Guam	20.86
47	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	20.69
48	Sri Lanka	20.60
49	Thailand	20.36
50	Malaysia	20.30
51	Netherlands	19.77
52	Slovakia	19.62
53	High income	19.07
54	Chile	18.83
55	Cuba	18.79
56	St. Lucia	18.53
57	Equatorial Guinea	18.45
58	Guinea-Bissau	18.22
59	Central African Republic	18.19
60	Ethiopia	17.54
61	Philippines	17.15
62	Euro area	17.13
63	Nicaragua	16.93
64	American Samoa	16.84
65	Ghana	16.64
66	Luxembourg	16.64
67	Nepal	16.63
68	Gabon	16.54
69	Malta	16.43
70	Latvia	16.37
71	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	16.34
72	Nigeria	15.96
73	Laos	15.86
74	Czech Republic	15.79
75	Zimbabwe	15.77
76	Indonesia	15.75
77	Mozambique	15.67
78	Malawi	15.52
79	High income: OECD	15.48
80	France	15.37
81	China	15.14
82	Liberia	15.01
83	Namibia	14.97
84	East Asia & Pacific (developing only)	14.66
85	Timor-Leste	14.62
86	Bermuda	14.43
87	Burkina Faso	14.35
88	Japan	14.12
89	Upper middle income	14.01
90	Mongolia	13.93
91	Peru	13.79
92	Tajikistan	13.68
93	Middle income	12.88
94	Low & middle income	12.68
95	Suriname	12.65
96	Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)	12.42
97	Kenya	12.30
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	12.21
99	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	12.14
100	Low income	11.85
101	Bahamas	11.37
102	Lower middle income	11.24
103	Togo	11.10
104	Least developed countries: UN classification	11.05
105	Cyprus	10.80
106	Romania	10.66
107	Jordan	10.48
108	Sweden	10.45
109	Republic of the Congo	10.29
110	Antigua and Barbuda	10.25
111	Bulgaria	10.11
112	Cameroon	10.11
113	Micronesia	10.08
114	Papua New Guinea	9.70
115	Spain	9.47
116	Oman	9.44
117	Finland	9.30
118	Iceland	9.26
119	Russia	9.03
120	Pakistan	8.96
121	Chad	8.95
122	Bahrain	8.39
123	Angola	8.27
124	Canada	8.23
125	Armenia	8.19
126	Albania	7.98
127	Mexico	7.97
128	Netherlands Antilles	7.92
129	Europe & Central Asia (developing only)	7.78
130	Egypt	7.71
131	Rwanda	7.62
132	Croatia	7.55
133	New Caledonia	7.39
134	Azerbaijan	7.31
135	Italy	7.06
136	Iran	6.99
137	Andorra	6.94
138	Puerto Rico	6.80
139	Montenegro	6.74
140	Burma	6.65
141	Niger	6.64
142	Slovenia	6.62
143	Portugal	6.60
144	Guinea	6.57
145	Belarus	6.54
146	Argentina	6.48
147	South Africa	6.05
148	Lithuania	6.03
149	Paraguay	5.97
150	Denmark	5.74
151	Vietnam	5.61
152	Hungary	5.60
153	Burundi	5.56
154	Mauritius	5.54
155	South Asia	5.51
156	Norway	5.22
157	Singapore	5.17
158	St. Kitts and Nevis	5.06
159	Algeria	5.02
160	India	4.77
161	Sudan	4.55
162	Vanuatu	4.46
163	Northern Mariana Islands	4.39
164	Eritrea	4.26
165	South Korea	4.25
166	North Korea	4.25
167	Sierra Leone	4.15
168	Georgia	3.90
169	Middle East & North Africa (developing only)	3.81
170	Western Samoa	3.62
171	Greece	3.45
172	Ukraine	3.44
173	Belgium	3.20
174	Kyrgyzstan	3.11
175	Swaziland	3.10
176	Madagascar	3.09
177	Gibraltar	2.92
178	Kazakhstan	2.80
179	Serbia	2.75
180	Turkmenistan	2.64
181	Guyana	2.26
182	Bangladesh	2.18
183	Fiji	2.16
184	Mali	2.10
185	Mayotte	2.03
186	Grenada	1.96
187	Gambia	1.95
188	Uzbekistan	1.94
189	Turkey	1.94
190	Tunisia	1.51
191	Moldova	1.40
192	El Salvador	1.33
193	Palau	1.30
194	Morocco	1.22
195	Ireland	1.12
196	French Polynesia	1.07
197	Mauritania	0.87
198	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.81
199	Kuwait	0.78
200	Solomon Islands	0.76
201	Syria	0.66
202	Qatar	0.62
203	Somalia	0.56
204	Lebanon	0.45
205	Uruguay	0.37
206	Yemen	0.34
207	United Arab Emirates	0.28
208	Haiti	0.26
209	Monaco	0.25
210	Lesotho	0.23
211	Afghanistan	0.17
212	Barbados	0.11
213	Australia	0.10
214	Libya	0.10
215	Aruba	0.06
216	Cape Verde	0.01
217	Tuvalu	0
218	Djibouti	0
219	Iraq	0

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