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Area of sealed land surface. Provisional data: Note that these values are shared as preliminary results and should not be taken as final statistical evidence. Final publication, later this year, will introduce further calibrations to the harmonised imperviousness timeseries input data, as the 2024 reference year is added.
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Soil sealing index (2006-2021provisional)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
Published: 26 Mar 2026
Temporal coverage: 2006-2021
Superseded or restricted datasets
Soil sealing index (2006-2018provisional)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Superseded
Published: 18 Mar 2024
Temporal coverage: 2006-2018
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This indicator measures the covering of the soil surface with non-permeable materials, hence indicating imperviousness. The aggregation of imperviousness values to reference units, such as urban areas, floodplains, coastal zones or protected areas is performed using the integrated spatial data platform of the EEA.
Soil sealing index_superseded (2006-2018)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Superseded
Published: 4 Apr 2024
Temporal coverage: 2006-2018
Soil sealing index_superseded (2006-2018)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)Superseded
Published: 15 Apr 2024
Temporal coverage: 2006-2018
Soil sealing index (2006-2018)Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)Superseded
Published: 17 Sep 2024
Temporal coverage: 2006-2018