Marine protected areas in Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands: Marine protected areas was 0.1% in 2025. ▬ Flat
Marine protected areas in Cayman Islands, 2013–2025
Source: Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring. Measured in % of territorial waters.
Analysis
Cayman Islands recorded 0.1% for marine protected areas in 2025. That is the highest value across all 13 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, marine protected areas in Cayman Islands peaked at 0.1% in 2013 and was at its lowest, 0.1%, in 2013.
That places Cayman Islands 139th out of 174 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
Marine protected areas in Cayman Islands, year by year
| Year | % of territorial waters | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 0.1% | — |
| 2014 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.1% | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 7 |
| 2020s | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Cayman Islands
- 139 Algeria 0.1% compare
- 139 Cape Verde 0.1% compare
- 139 Dominica 0.1% compare
- 139 Grenada 0.1% compare
- 139 Liberia 0.1% compare
- 139 Maldives 0.1% compare
- 139 Papua New Guinea 0.1% compare
- 139 Solomon Islands 0.1% compare
- 139 Tonga 0.1% compare
- 139 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1% compare
More climate change data for Cayman Islands
- Share of global CO₂ emissions and population 0.0% (2100)
- Urban population 100.0% (2025)
- Urban population 75,844 (2025)
- Urban population growth 1.8% (2025)
- Population, total 75,844 (2025)
- Population growth 1.8% (2025)
- Annual Net Emissions/Removals 0.4059 (2024)
- Temperature change with respect to a baseline climatology 2.04 (2024)
- Energy use per capita vs. CO₂ emissions per capita 5 (2024)
- Agricultural Soils — Emissions (CO2eq) 0 kt (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is marine protected areas in Cayman Islands?
- Marine protected areas in Cayman Islands was 0.1% in 2025, according to Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring.
- What is the highest marine protected areas recorded in Cayman Islands?
- The highest recorded value was 0.1% in 2013.
- What is the lowest marine protected areas recorded in Cayman Islands?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.1% in 2013.
- How does Cayman Islands rank for marine protected areas?
- Cayman Islands ranks 139th out of 174 countries with data for 2025.
- Is marine protected areas rising or falling in Cayman Islands?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Cayman Islands data come from?
- The figures come from Protected Planet: The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and World Database on Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (WD-OECM), UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring, published as part of Marine protected areas (% of territorial waters). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.