Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance

Figures & data

Table 1. Inscriptions of cultural landscapes and other cultural and mixed properties on the World Heritage List, 1978–2019

	Cultural landscapes			Other cultural and mixed properties			All cultural and mixed properties
	World	European share	in %	World	European share	in %	World	European share	in %
1978–1992	295	137	46.4	295	137	46.4
1993–2009	66	35	53.0	355	199	56.1	421	234	55.6
2010–2019	48	21	43.8	144	50	34.7	192	71	37.0
Total since 1993	114	56	49.1	499	249	49.9	613	305	49.8
Total since 1978	114	56	49.1	794	386	48.6	908	442	48.7

Note: Cultural landscapes as listed on https://whc.unesco.org/en/culturallandscape; other numbers derived from the totals for Europe and North America (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/stat#d6), subtracting those for Canada (cf. http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/ca) and the United States (cf. http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/us; note these countries’ two joint inscriptions). Numbers exclude Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany).

Table 2. Top European and non-European nominators compared, 2010–2019

	Cultural landscape nominations	Other cultural and mixed nominations	Other natural nominations	Total
European countries
Germany	6	16	1	23
France	4	8	6	18
Italy	4	6	6	16
Spain	6	6	2	14
Total	20	36	15	71
Turkey	2	10	1	13
Non-European countries
China	3	8	8	19
Iran	2	11	4	17
India	1	9	6	16
Japan	0	11	2	13
Total	6	39	20	65

Note: see note 54 for details of what was counted and what not.