Canada vs Greenland: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC over time
- Canada
- Greenland
How they compare
Greenland currently reports 176,239 1000 ha against 18,553 1000 ha in Canada, a difference of 157,686 1000 ha.
That makes Greenland's figure about 9.5 times Canada's.
Across all 31 years both countries report, Greenland has been ahead every year.
Canada ranks 3rd and Greenland ranks 2nd of 219 countries.
Greenland has averaged higher in every one of the 4 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Canada | Greenland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 18,553 1000 ha | 176,239 1000 ha | 157,686 1000 ha | Greenland |
| 2000s | 18,553 1000 ha | 176,239 1000 ha | 157,686 1000 ha | Greenland |
| 2010s | 18,553 1000 ha | 176,239 1000 ha | 157,686 1000 ha | Greenland |
| 2020s | 18,553 1000 ha | 176,239 1000 ha | 157,686 1000 ha | Greenland |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cci_lc, Canada or Greenland?
- Greenland, at 176,239 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 Canada and Greenland?
- 157,686 1000 ha, with Greenland ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Canada and Greenland?
- 31 years are reported by both, from 1992 to 2022.
- How do Canada and Greenland rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cci_lc?
- Canada ranks 3rd and Greenland ranks 2nd of 219 countries.
- 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.