Name: Protected Areas
Creator: Eurostat
License: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Copyright/licence_policy

About this Dataset

Protected Areas

This Eurostat dataset contains data on protected areas, as collected and published by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

Tables included:

raw: Original table as downloaded from Eurostat.
tidy: A cleaned and transformed version of the raw table, where time period values appear as rows instead of columns (unpivoted format).

Last updated: 2025-10-27T23:00:00+0100

Tables

Protected Areas - Raw

@eurostat.env_bio4.raw

14.78 kB
112 rows
17 columns

CREATE TABLE raw (
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "areaprot" VARCHAR,
  "geo" VARCHAR,
  "n_2011" DOUBLE  -- 2011,
  "n_2012" DOUBLE  -- 2012,
  "n_2013" DOUBLE  -- 2013,
  "n_2014" DOUBLE  -- 2014,
  "n_2015" DOUBLE  -- 2015,
  "n_2016" DOUBLE  -- 2016,
  "n_2017" DOUBLE  -- 2017,
  "n_2018" DOUBLE  -- 2018,
  "n_2019" DOUBLE  -- 2019,
  "n_2020" DOUBLE  -- 2020,
  "n_2021" DOUBLE  -- 2021,
  "n_2022" DOUBLE  -- 2022,
  "n_2023" DOUBLE  -- 2023
);

Protected Areas - Unpivoted

@eurostat.env_bio4.tidy

7.43 kB
408 rows
6 columns

CREATE TABLE tidy (
  "freq" VARCHAR,
  "unit" VARCHAR,
  "areaprot" VARCHAR,
  "geo" VARCHAR,
  "time_period" VARCHAR,
  "value" DOUBLE
);