Protected Areas Representativeness Index

The Protected Areas Representativeness Index (PARI) indicator measures how well terrestrial protected areas represent the ecological diversity of a country. This metric is calculated by CSIRO (https://geobon.org/ebvs/indicators/protected-area-representatives-connec...) using high-resolution remote sensing data and biological records of species' locations. A score of 100 indicates that a country's terrestrial protected areas nearly perfectly represent the country's ecosystem diversity, and a score of 0 indicates very low representativeness (≤5th-percentile of PARI values).

country rank Score 10y ∆
Belize 1 100.0 0.0
Brazil 1 100.0 0.0
Namibia 1 100.0 0.0
Suriname 1 100.0 0.0
Tanzania 1 100.0 0.0
Trinidad and Tobago 1 100.0 0.0
Venezuela 1 100.0 0.0
Costa Rica 8 99.9 0.0
Zambia 9 99.6 0.0
Norway 10 98.0 0.0
Guyana 11 96.9 0.0
Switzerland 12 92.9 0.0
Luxembourg 13 89.6 0.0
Austria 14 86.4 0.0
Nicaragua 15 85.3 0.0
Botswana 16 84.1 0.0
Bahamas 17 80.1 0.0
Germany 18 76.3 0.0
Bolivia 19 73.3 0.0
France 20 71.5 0.0
Belgium 21 70.4 0.0
Slovenia 22 69.9 0.0
Republic of Congo 23 69.8 0.0
Panama 24 68.9 0.0
Mozambique 25 68.4 0.0
Colombia 26 67.6 0.0
Guinea 27 67.1 0.0
Cambodia 28 66.7 0.0
Poland 29 66.6 0.0
Montenegro 30 65.0 0.0
Honduras 31 64.7 0.0
Zimbabwe 31 64.7 0.0
Malawi 33 63.9 0.0
Guinea-Bissau 34 63.3 0.0
Czech Republic 35 63.2 0.0
Iceland 36 63.0 0.0
Benin 37 62.6 0.0
Slovakia 38 62.4 0.0
United Kingdom 39 60.0 0.0
Sri Lanka 40 59.8 0.0
Spain 41 59.5 0.0
Guatemala 42 57.6 0.0
Dominican Republic 43 56.8 0.0
Croatia 44 55.8 0.0
Italy 45 55.4 0.0
Qatar 46 55.3 0.0
Bosnia and Herzegovina 47 55.1 0.0
Senegal 48 54.3 0.0
Niger 49 53.9 0.0
Netherlands 50 52.8 0.0
Australia 51 50.9 0.0
Burkina Faso 52 50.7 0.0
Gabon 53 50.5 0.0
Ecuador 54 50.1 0.0
Bulgaria 55 48.7 0.0
Estonia 56 48.4 0.0
Peru 56 48.4 0.0
Ireland 58 46.8 0.0
Albania 59 46.4 0.0
Portugal 60 46.3 0.0
Togo 61 45.7 0.0
Haiti 62 45.4 0.0
Jamaica 63 44.5 0.0
Kuwait 64 44.2 0.0
Romania 65 43.8 0.0
Paraguay 66 43.3 0.0
Latvia 67 42.6 0.0
United Arab Emirates 68 42.5 0.0
North Macedonia 69 42.3 0.0
Oman 70 42.1 0.0
Lithuania 71 41.7 0.0
Denmark 72 41.5 0.0
Bhutan 73 40.9 0.0
Cuba 74 40.8 0.0
Ghana 74 40.8 0.0
Canada 76 40.3 0.0
Sweden 77 40.2 0.0
Gambia 78 40.0 0.0
Uganda 79 39.1 0.0
Kenya 80 38.4 0.0
Hungary 81 38.1 0.0
Cyprus 82 37.6 0.0
Cote d'Ivoire 83 37.1 0.0
Central African Republic 84 37.0 0.0
Greece 85 36.5 0.0
Kyrgyzstan 86 36.3 0.0
Belarus 87 36.2 0.0
Angola 88 35.6 0.0
Eswatini 89 35.2 0.0
El Salvador 90 35.0 0.0
Serbia 91 34.7 0.0
Chile 92 34.6 0.0
Madagascar 93 34.5 0.0
Rwanda 94 34.4 0.0
Saudi Arabia 95 34.1 0.0
Dem. Rep. Congo 96 33.9 0.0
Equatorial Guinea 97 33.3 0.0
Laos 98 32.9 0.0
Jordan 99 31.6 0.0
Ethiopia 100 31.2 0.0
Cameroon 101 30.9 0.0
Chad 102 29.8 0.0
Tajikistan 103 29.5 0.0
Georgia 104 28.5 0.0
New Zealand 104 28.5 0.0
Philippines 104 28.5 0.0
Burundi 107 28.3 0.0
Nigeria 108 28.2 0.0
Finland 109 27.4 0.0
Russia 110 27.2 0.0
Thailand 111 27.0 0.0
Mongolia 112 26.5 0.0
Lesotho 113 25.6 0.0
Viet Nam 114 25.4 0.0
Japan 115 25.0 0.0
Liberia 116 24.6 0.0
Sierra Leone 116 24.6 0.0
Taiwan 118 24.0 0.0
Egypt 119 22.5 0.0
Ukraine 120 22.4 0.0
Brunei Darussalam 121 20.8 0.0
South Korea 122 19.1 0.0
Israel 123 18.7 0.0
Mexico 124 18.0 0.0
South Africa 125 16.3 0.0
Moldova 126 16.2 0.0
Mali 127 15.9 0.0
Argentina 128 14.9 0.0
Indonesia 128 14.9 0.0
Lebanon 128 14.9 0.0
Timor-Leste 131 14.8 0.0
Malaysia 132 14.6 0.0
United States of America 132 14.6 0.0
Armenia 134 14.4 0.0
Nepal 135 13.8 0.0
Kazakhstan 136 12.6 0.0
Morocco 136 12.6 0.0
Sudan 138 11.0 0.0
Uzbekistan 139 10.8 0.0
Tunisia 140 10.7 0.0
Iran 141 10.1 0.0
Iraq 142 8.8 0.0
Azerbaijan 143 7.2 0.0
Myanmar 144 7.1 0.0
Pakistan 145 6.6 0.0
Uruguay 146 6.3 0.0
Algeria 147 6.1 0.0
Turkiye 148 5.4 0.0
Eritrea 149 3.1 0.0
Turkmenistan 150 2.3 0.0
Vanuatu 151 1.7 0.0
Mauritania 152 0.9 0.0
Afghanistan 153 0.3 0.0
Bangladesh 154 0.0 0.0
China 154 0.0 0.0
Djibouti 154 0.0 0.0
Fiji 154 0.0 0.0
India 154 0.0 0.0
Papua New Guinea 154 0.0 0.0
Solomon Islands 154 0.0 0.0
Antigua and Barbuda
Bahrain
Barbados
Cabo Verde
Comoros
Dominica
Grenada
Kiribati
Maldives
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritius
Micronesia
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Seychelles
Singapore
Tonga