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Table 2. Country results.
Country General Composition
area
(1000
km 2 )
population
(millions)
(1) land
consumption
(%)
(2) normalised
land
consumption
(SD)
2003 2001 2006 2006 1990–
2000
(3) growth
of urban land
(% pa)
2000–
2006
(4) sealing
degree of
urban land
(%)
by a collapse of the real estate market during the nancial crisis of the recent past exhibit
the highest growth rates: Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, and to some degree also Greece—
where data were available only for the period from 1990 to 2000—experienced a tremendous
spatial expansion of their urbanised areas in the 1990s and, although with reduced speed, they
continued growing into the 2000s. The same is true for the Netherlands, where large amounts
of new urban area were added to an already highly urbanised landscape. And although Dutch
land-management policies are known to focus on compact new urban areas [“Memorandums
on Spatial Planning” (see Priemus, 2004; Priemus and Louw, 2003], the sheer amount of new
urban area that has been added is still signi cant. Therefore, the fast-growing countries can
be subdivided into two groups: one group of countries with low urban densities (indicator 8)
2006
Austria 84. 8. 4.2 2.6 0.09 0.10 30.0
Belgium 31. 10. 20.3 3.5 0.16 0.02 30.2
Bulgaria 111. 8. 4.7 3.7 0.00 0.02 32.0
Croatia 57. 4. 3.0 2.2 0.16 0.33 38.7
Czech Republic 79. 10. 6.0 2.7 0.06 0.11 40.3
Denmark 43. 5. 7.2 3.4 0.22 0.19 34.2
Estonia 45. 1. 1.9 3.7 0.12 0.22 26.2
Finland 337. 5. 1.3 5.1 – 0.12 22.9
France 549. 58. 4.8 2.6 0.26 0.18 39.1
Germany 358. 82. 8.0 2.0 0.31 0.11 46.7
Greece 132. 11. 1.9 a 1.4 0.55 – 39.1
Hungary 93. 10. 5.8 3.1 0.06 0.16 44.5
Ireland 70. 4. 2.0 2.2 1.63 0.75 32.1
Italy 301. 57. 4.6 1.4 0.40 0.22 39.1
Latvia 65. 2. 1.3 2.0 – 0.04 36.4
Lithuania 65. 3. 3.2 3.5 0.01 0.10 33.6
Luxemburg 3. 0. 9.8 3.4 0.51 0.02 31.1
Netherlands 37. 16. 13.2 1.8 1.04 0.39 45.3
Poland 312. 38. 3.3 1.6 0.04 0.08 42.7
Portugal 89. 10. 2.8 1.5 1.55 0.54 49.1
Romania 238. 22. 6.2 3.9 0.02 0.03 22.2
Slovakia 49. 5. 5.6 3.0 0.00 0.10 34.7
Slovenia 20. 2. 2.7 1.6 0.03 0.12 35.5
Spain 498. 39. 1.7 1.3 1.14 0.81 44.5
Sweden 449. 9. 1.3 4.0 – 0.47 20.4
United Kingdom 245. 59. 7.2 a 1.8 0.09 – 39.2 a
a 2000 values.