Americas vs Canada: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Americas
- Canada
How they compare
Americas currently reports 205,430 1000 ha against 18,553 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 186,877 1000 ha.
That makes Americas's figure about 11.1 times Canada's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Americas has been ahead every year.
Americas ranks 2nd and Canada ranks 3rd of 7 groups.
Americas has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Americas | Canada | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 205,430 1000 ha | 18,553 1000 ha | 186,877 1000 ha | Americas |
| 2000s | 205,430 1000 ha | 18,553 1000 ha | 186,877 1000 ha | Americas |
| 2010s | 205,430 1000 ha | 18,553 1000 ha | 186,877 1000 ha | Americas |
| 2020s | 205,430 1000 ha | 18,553 1000 ha | 186,877 1000 ha | Americas |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cci_lc, Americas or Canada?
- Americas, at 205,430 1000 ha against 18,553 1000 ha in Canada as of 2022.
- What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from cci_lc between Americas and Canada?
- 186,877 1000 ha, with Americas ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Americas and Canada?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Americas and Canada rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cci_lc?
- Americas ranks 2nd and Canada ranks 3rd of 7 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.