The geographical pattern of performance scores is shown in Map 5. This shows a very clear concentration of Depleting regions in the eastern New Member States and the New German Lander. Below average scores are also found in southern Italy, western Spain, Portugal, central and NE France, and the northern parts of the Nordic Member States and UK. The highest rates of “accumulation” are found along the Mediterranean coast of Spain, and north of Madrid, in Ireland (clearly a result which is unlikely to stand once more recent data is available), southern England, northern Netherlands. Above average performance is.
