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Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC by country

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...

Countries reporting
37
Highest
1.18 million 1000 ha
Antarctica
Lowest
1.31 1000 ha
Myanmar
Median
134.01 1000 ha
Years covered
31
1992–2022
Data points
8,231

What the numbers show

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC is currently reported for 37 countries. The highest value is 1.18 million 1000 ha in Antarctica; the lowest is 1.31 1000 ha in Myanmar.

The median across all reporting countries is 134.01 1000 ha, and the mean is 37,982 1000 ha.

Over the past decade 1 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Antarctica (up 0.0%), and the largest decrease in Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (down 0.1%).

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Antarctica 1.18 million 1000 ha 2022 up 0.0% flat
2 Greenland 176,239 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
2 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 91.49 1000 ha 2022 down 0.1% flat
3 Canada 18,553 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
3 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.05 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
4 China 6,388 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
4 China, mainland 6,388 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
6 Russian Federation 5,356 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
7 Norway 3,608 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
8 Chile 2,828 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
9 Iceland 1,108 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
10 Tajikistan 1,081 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
11 India 739.64 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
12 Argentina 645.21 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
13 Kyrgyzstan 584.57 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
14 Nepal 470.94 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
15 Afghanistan 322.06 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
16 Peru 297.67 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
17 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 270.93 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
18 Pakistan 210.7 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
19 Australia and New Zealand 134.01 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
20 Kazakhstan 113.34 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
21 Bhutan 113.14 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
22 New Zealand 109.03 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
23 Switzerland 104.17 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
24 French Southern Territories 70.12 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
25 Mongolia 60.15 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
26 Georgia 39.79 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
27 Austria 36.99 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
28 Uzbekistan 34.95 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
29 Italy 31.59 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
30 France 27.19 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
31 Heard Island and McDonald Islands 24.99 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
32 Sweden 24.02 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
33 Ecuador 12.3 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
34 Colombia 6.57 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat
35 Myanmar 1.31 1000 ha 2022 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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About this data

Indicator
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CCI_LC
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
270 places, 8,231 data points, 1992–2022
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.