ACRONYMS National Statistics Institute

Proportion of degraded land relative to total land area

Scope
Biodiversity
Action line
Environmental and climate pressures related to EU production and consumption
Type of indicator (global, European, national)
  • Global
  • National
Correlation with other sets of indicators
SDG: 15.3.1
Description
Percentage of the total land area that has experienced a reduction or loss of biological or economic productivity and complexity of rainfed cropland, irrigated cropland or grassland, pasture, woodland and wooded areas as a result of a combination of stresses, including land use and management practices.
Calculation method

Land degradation extent for reporting on SDG indicator 15.3.1 is calculated using its three sub-indicators, which are:

  1. Land coverage trends.
  2. Land productivity trends
  3. Carbon stock trends (above and below ground), currently represented by soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks.

The degradation analysis results for each of the sub-indicators are integrated using a so-called ¿one-out, all-out¿ method, where a significant reduction or negative change in any of the three sub-indicators is considered to be land degradation, regardless of how the other two sub-indicators fare.

Unit of measure
Percentage
Source
MTED
Periodicity
Annual
Disaggregated data(Gender, age, region in Spain, other)
Come from National Statistics Plan (YES/NO)
No
Responsible institution
MTED
Link to Eurostat metadata
Date of the last metadata update
15/12/2021
Observations

Administrative data that do not correspond to any statistics of the National Statistical Plan It must be reported every 4 years beginning in 2018. In the National Report 2018 the default data provided for Spain by the UNCCD has been used, once its consistency with the own evaluation (in development) has been verified for its determination with the data of the country.