Table 1 Summary of the photographic surveys conducted between 2012 and 2018.

From: A contemporary baseline record of the world’s coral reefs

Region

Survey year

Country or Territory

Surveys

Quadrats

Western Atlantic Ocean

2013

Anguilla

15

22,250

2013

Aruba

3

5,615

2013

The Bahamas

30

42,678

2013

Belize

24

32,515

2013

Bermuda

12

25,748

2013

Bonaire

13

23,028

2013

Curacao

16

29,419

2013

Guadeloupe

14

15,277

2013

Mexico

23

38,192

2013

Saint Martin

4

4,368

2013

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

25

25,498

2013

Saint Eustatius

3

2,033

2013

Turks and Caicos Islands

13

18,387

Eastern Australia

2012, 2014,2016,2017

Australia (Great Barrier Reef)

261

316,369

Central Indian Ocean

2015

The Chagos Archipelago

29

42,777

2015, 2017

Maldives

63

94,921

Southeast Asia

2016, 2018

Taiwan

29

30,062

2014

Timor-Leste

26

28,482

2014, 2018

Indonesia

114

124,889

2014, 2018

The Philippines

24

33,038

2014

The Solomon Islands

20

33,667

Central Pacific Ocean

2015, 2016

United States

99

93,111

Totals

23

860

1,082,324