Marine protected areas in Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste: Marine protected areas was 0.7% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Marine protected areas in Timor-Leste, 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
Timor-Leste recorded 0.7% for marine protected areas in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 13 years on record.
That represents a change of down 50.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, marine protected areas in Timor-Leste peaked at 1.4% in 2013 and was at its lowest, 0.7%, in 2024.
Timor-Leste ranks 110th of 174 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 13 years of available data.
Marine protected areas in Timor-Leste, year by year
| Year | % of territorial waters | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1.4% | — |
| 2014 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 1.4% | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.7% | -50.0% |
| 2025 | 0.7% | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1.4% | 1.4% | 1.4% | 7 |
| 2020s | 1.2% | 0.7% | 1.4% | 6 |
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More climate change data for Timor-Leste
- Share of global CO₂ emissions and population 0.0% (2100)
- Urban population 28.8% (2025)
- Urban population 408,340 (2025)
- Urban population growth 1.7% (2025)
- Population, total 1.42 million (2025)
- Population growth 1.3% (2025)
- Annual Net Emissions/Removals 1.94 (2024)
- Temperature change with respect to a baseline climatology 1.11 (2024)
- Per capita CO₂ emissions vs. per capita energy use 0.477 tonnes per person (2024)
- Share of global cumulative CO₂ emissions including land-use change 0.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is marine protected areas in Timor-Leste?
- Marine protected areas in Timor-Leste was 0.7% 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 Timor-Leste?
- The highest recorded value was 1.4% in 2013.
- What is the lowest marine protected areas recorded in Timor-Leste?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.7% in 2024.
- How does Timor-Leste rank for marine protected areas?
- Timor-Leste ranks 110th out of 174 countries with data for 2025.
- Is marine protected areas rising or falling in Timor-Leste?
- Over the last ten years it is down 50.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Timor-Leste 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.