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  "study": {
    "slug": "organic-farming-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Austria Already Farms a Quarter of Its Farmland Organically",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/organic-farming-in-the-eu"
  },
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  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Area under organic farming, 2020",
  "valueHeading": "% of utilised agricultural area",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "2020 is used because it is the most recent year in which the source publishes a value for every Member State. Later releases drop Austria, Greece and the EU aggregate, and Austria is the highest-ranked country.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Area under organic farming",
    "code": "sdg_02_40",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "PC_UAA",
      "crops": "UAAXK0000",
      "agprdmet": "TOTAL",
      "time": "2020"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-07",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-10-06",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/sdg_02_40",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/sdg_02_40/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
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      "name": "Austria",
      "value": 25.7,
      "gap_to_reference": 16.6,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
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      "name": "Estonia",
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      "gap_to_reference": 13.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Sweden",
      "value": 20.3,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
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      "name": "European Union",
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      "gap_to_reference": null,
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      "source_flag": "e"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Bulgaria",
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      "gap_to_reference": -6.8,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Ireland",
      "value": 1.7,
      "gap_to_reference": -7.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Malta",
      "value": 0.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -8.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}