Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS 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...
What the numbers show
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS is currently reported for 47 countries. The highest value is 152,405 1000 ha in Greenland; the lowest is 0.01 1000 ha in Albania.
The median across all reporting countries is 52.25 1000 ha, and the mean is 4,130 1000 ha.
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greenland | 152,405 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 2 | Canada | 15,284 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 2 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 63.25 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 3 | China | 6,310 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 3 | China, mainland | 6,310 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 3 | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | 5.61 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 4 | Türkiye | 1.38 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 5 | Chile | 2,795 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 5 | United Republic of Tanzania | 0.46 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 6 | Russian Federation | 2,697 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 6 | Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) | 0.11 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 7 | Norway | 1,279 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 7 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0.09 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 8 | Iceland | 1,132 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 9 | Tajikistan | 1,126 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 10 | India | 848.73 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan | 826.54 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 12 | Argentina | 589.86 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 13 | Nepal | 504.23 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 14 | Afghanistan | 398.32 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 15 | Pakistan | 333.23 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 16 | Peru | 188.57 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 17 | New Zealand | 160.98 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 17 | Australia and New Zealand | 160.98 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 19 | Kazakhstan | 151.08 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 20 | Switzerland | 137.04 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 21 | Bhutan | 88.45 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 22 | Georgia | 60.1 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 23 | Austria | 52.25 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 24 | Italy | 49.42 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 25 | Mongolia | 49.32 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 26 | France | 43.6 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 27 | Sweden | 38.62 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 28 | Ecuador | 13.18 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 29 | Uzbekistan | 12.36 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 30 | Colombia | 7.57 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 31 | Myanmar | 4.28 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 32 | Azerbaijan | 0.56 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 33 | Spain | 0.38 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 34 | Indonesia | 0.22 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 35 | Mexico | 0.21 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 36 | Uganda | 0.11 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 37 | Germany | 0.1 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 38 | Kenya | 0.09 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 39 | Armenia | 0.08 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
| 40 | Slovenia | 0.04 1000 ha | 2019 | — | rising |
| 41 | Albania | 0.01 1000 ha | 2019 | — | flat |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- World 195,197 1000 ha
- Asia 10,720 1000 ha
- Americas 178,885 1000 ha
- Northern America 175,227 1000 ha
- United States of America 7,538 1000 ha
- Eastern Asia 6,360 1000 ha
- Europe 5,430 1000 ha
- South America 3,658 1000 ha
- Middle Africa 0.09 1000 ha
- Eastern Europe 2,697 1000 ha
- Northern Europe 2,450 1000 ha
- Southern Asia 2,179 1000 ha
- Central Asia 2,116 1000 ha
- Western Europe 232.99 1000 ha
- European Union (27) 184.41 1000 ha
- Oceania 160.98 1000 ha
- Western Asia 62.13 1000 ha
- Southern Europe 49.85 1000 ha
- South-Eastern Asia 4.5 1000 ha
- Africa 0.75 1000 ha
- Eastern Africa 0.66 1000 ha
- Central America 0.21 1000 ha
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.