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Reading no. 2025/112

EnvironmentObserved dataAnnual fixture: Earth Day

Share of protected land in the Pacific

59.7%

Pacific

New CaledoniaPalauNew ZealandKiribatiAustraliaTuvaluTongaMarshall Islands

Terrestrial protected areas set against land area, latest known year of each territory up to 2023: the top ten of the Pacific.

  1. New Caledonia59.7
  2. Palau44.2
  3. New Zealand33.4
  4. Kiribati22.4
  5. Australia20.4
  6. Tuvalu13.2
  7. Tonga12.6
  8. Marshall Islands11.9
  9. Samoa8.2
  10. Fiji5.4

The first territory of the ranking, New Caledonia, protects 59.7% of its land.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator ER.LND.PTLD.ZS, read for seventeen Pacific territories from 2016 to 2023. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Recurring annual series. This reading is published every year on this date.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2026/112 · 22 Apr59.6%Share of protected land in the Pacific2026/271 · 28 Sep17.08t CO2eCO2 emissions per capita in the Pacific2026/067 · 8 Mar45.5%Share of parliamentary seats held by women in the Pacific2024/275 · 1 Oct17.1%Share of people aged 65 and over in the population, Pacific

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