Central America vs New Zealand: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS

Central America
0.06 1000 ha
in 2024
New Zealand
76.35 1000 ha
in 2024
Central America rank
21st
New Zealand rank
19th

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS over time

  • Central America
  • New Zealand
050100150200120122024

How they compare

New Zealand currently reports 76.35 1000 ha against 0.06 1000 ha in Central America, a difference of 76.29 1000 ha.

That makes New Zealand's figure about 1,272.5 times Central America's.

Across all 24 years both countries report, New Zealand has been ahead every year.

Central America ranks 21st and New Zealand ranks 19th of 26 groups.

New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Central America New Zealand Difference Ahead
2000s 0.4956 1000 ha 130.02 1000 ha 129.52 1000 ha New Zealand
2010s 0.799 1000 ha 95.07 1000 ha 94.27 1000 ha New Zealand
2020s 0.266 1000 ha 80.83 1000 ha 80.56 1000 ha New Zealand

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis, Central America or New Zealand?
New Zealand, at 76.35 1000 ha against 0.06 1000 ha in Central America as of 2024.
What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis between Central America and New Zealand?
76.29 1000 ha, with New Zealand ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Central America and New Zealand?
24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
How do Central America and New Zealand rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis?
Central America ranks 21st and New Zealand ranks 19th of 26 groups.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS. 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 MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
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.