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Grassland butterfly index
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2022 49.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2021 49.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2020 49.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 75.9
2019 49.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 83.9
2018 50.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 90.9
2017 52.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 97.1
2016 53.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 102.4
2015 55.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 106.7
2014 58.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 110.2
2013 61.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 112.7
2012 64.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 114.0
2011 67.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 114.0
2010 70.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 113.3
2009 73.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 112.3
2008 76.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 110.1
2007 78.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 106.4
2006 80.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 102.7
2005 82.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 100.3
2004 85.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 99.1
2003 88.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 98.2
2002 91.7 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 97.9
2001 95.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 98.5
2000 100.0 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 100.0
1999 104.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 101.7
1998 110.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 102.8
1997 116.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 103.6
1996 122.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 104.4
1995 129.3 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available 105.3
Units: Index 2000 = 100.
Source Catalonia: Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.
Indicador ODS Indicator 15.61 from the EU Sustainable Development Goals

Last update: January 26, 2024.

DIA

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Statistics on Environmental Impact Statements (DIA).

Methodological note

The indicator measures the population trends of 17 butterfly species at EU-level and is presented as Index 2000 = 100 with smoothed values.

The indicator is based on data from 17 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), but with a limited number of long time series available. The bodies that provide the data are the European Environment Agency and Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE), within the framework of the Assessing Butterflies in Europe (ABLE). The database the data are taken from is the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (BMS).

As for the indicator for Catalonia, the data measure the populations of 24 species, and the database the data are taken from is the catalan diurnal butterfly monitoring scheme (CBMS).