Central America vs Switzerland: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS

Central America
0.21 1000 ha
in 2019
Switzerland
137.04 1000 ha
in 2019
Central America rank
20th
Switzerland rank
20th

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS over time

  • Central America
  • Switzerland
050100150201520172019

How they compare

Switzerland currently reports 137.04 1000 ha against 0.21 1000 ha in Central America, a difference of 136.83 1000 ha.

That makes Switzerland's figure about 652.6 times Central America's.

Across all 5 years both countries report, Switzerland has been ahead every year.

Central America ranks 20th and Switzerland ranks 20th of 24 groups.

Switzerland has averaged higher in every one of the 1 decades both report.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls, Central America or Switzerland?
Switzerland, at 137.04 1000 ha against 0.21 1000 ha in Central America as of 2019.
What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls between Central America and Switzerland?
136.83 1000 ha, with Switzerland ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Central America and Switzerland?
5 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2019.
How do Central America and Switzerland rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
Central America ranks 20th and Switzerland ranks 20th of 24 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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About this data

Indicator
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 385 data points, 2015–2019
Last refreshed

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.