Annual change in soil sealing between 2009-2012, relative to sealed area in 2009

Note:
The chart shows data for the EEA-39 countries.
The negative values for Malta are likely artifacts in the data and the value for Malta is excluded from the analysis. In the case of Malta, the reason is likely to be a geometric shift problem in the input data. Overall, we will only have a more reliable and comparable picture of the sealing dynamics from 2006, once a fully re-processed time series is published in 2018.