Contaminated Sites in Europe: Review of the Current Situation Based on Data Collected through a European Network

Table 1

Estimated and identified PCS and CS.

	Identified PCS and CS; (a)	Estimated PCS; (b)	Estimated CS; (c)	Total; (d)
Countries	33	12	11	38
Surveyed population	487,152,449	177,412,672	57,568,148	612,117,243
Surveyed surface area (km²)	4,460,305	1,552,984	833,188	5,772,075
Surveyed of total population	79.6%	29.0%	9.4%
Surveyed of total area	77.3%	26.9%	14.4%
PCS	1,169,649	739,968		2,553,000*
PCS/1000 capita	2.4	4.2
CS	127,475		32,601	342,000*
CS/10,000 capita	2.62		5.7
Remediated sites (RSs)	58,336
RS/10,000 capita	1.20

∗Based on extrapolated data.