Dataset
Antarctic ozone hole area
owid.antarctic-ozone-hole-area
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About
Yearly maximum daily ozone hole area. Mean of the Ozone hole area (07 September - 13 October) for each year.
Cite as: NASA Ozone Watch (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Maximum hole area” [dataset]. NASA Ozone Watch, “Ozone hole area and concentration” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1979–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-10-12
- Units
- square kilometers
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antarctic-ozone-hole-area
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| max_hole_area | number | Maximum hole area (square kilometers) |
| mean_hole_area | number | Seasonal mean hole area (square kilometers) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |