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  • Visualisation | Last updated: 13 Feb 2026
Soil degradation in the Member States

This section compares the percentages of degraded soils in the Member States. The colour code in the graph represents the comparison between the Members States for each individual soil degradation indictor. Best performers are in dark blue, Member States doing worse are in dark orange. Selecting a Member State in the drop-down menu will show the percentages of degraded soils for each of the indicators. These values can be downloaded from the menu at the top right of the plot. Please note that each dataset represented in this graph is subject to a degree of uncertainty (e.g. scale, resolution, method of assessment, date) and underlying assumptions (e.g. the thresholds applied to defined the degraded state), that need to be taken into account when reading this graph.