New Zealand vs Switzerland: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS over time
- New Zealand
- Switzerland
How they compare
New Zealand currently reports 76.35 1000 ha against 45.04 1000 ha in Switzerland, a difference of 31.31 1000 ha.
That makes New Zealand's figure about 1.7 times Switzerland's.
Across all 24 years both countries report, New Zealand has been ahead every year.
New Zealand ranks 19th and Switzerland ranks 21st of 223 countries.
New Zealand has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | New Zealand | Switzerland | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 130.02 1000 ha | 66.96 1000 ha | 63.06 1000 ha | New Zealand |
| 2010s | 95.07 1000 ha | 54.08 1000 ha | 40.99 1000 ha | New Zealand |
| 2020s | 80.83 1000 ha | 48.18 1000 ha | 32.65 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, New Zealand or Switzerland?
- New Zealand, at 76.35 1000 ha against 45.04 1000 ha in Switzerland as of 2024.
- What is the difference in permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis between New Zealand and Switzerland?
- 31.31 1000 ha, with New Zealand ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for New Zealand and Switzerland?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do New Zealand and Switzerland rank globally for permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis?
- New Zealand ranks 19th and Switzerland ranks 21st of 223 countries.
- 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
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.