Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Americas
Americas: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 178,885 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Americas, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Americas recorded 178,885 1000 ha for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 1.1% over five years.
Americas ranks 2nd of 24 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Americas, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 176,977 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 177,398 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 178,039 1000 ha | +0.4% |
| 2018 | 178,450 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2019 | 178,885 1000 ha | +0.2% |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 Greenland 152,405 1000 ha compare
- 2 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 63.25 1000 ha compare
- 2 Canada 15,284 1000 ha compare
- 3 China 6,310 1000 ha compare
- 3 China, mainland 6,310 1000 ha compare
- 3 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5.61 1000 ha compare
- 4 Türkiye 1.38 1000 ha compare
- 5 Chile 2,795 1000 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 0.46 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.95 °C (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.303 °C (2025)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Annual growth US$ 2.72 % (2024)
- Wood fuel, coniferous — Production 78.58 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous — Production 263.00 million m3 (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.73 % (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 525,862 million USD (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP US$ 1.74 % (2024)
- Wood fuel — Production 341.57 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Americas?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Americas was 178,885 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 178,885 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 176,977 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Americas rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 24 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Americas data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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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.