Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Canada
Canada: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 15,284 1000 ha in 2019. ▲ Rising
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Canada, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Canada recorded 15,284 1000 ha for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
That represents a change of up 1.5% on the previous year and up 8.8% over five years.
That places Canada 2nd out of 42 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Canada, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14,044 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 14,293 1000 ha | +1.8% |
| 2017 | 14,807 1000 ha | +3.6% |
| 2018 | 15,062 1000 ha | +1.7% |
| 2019 | 15,284 1000 ha | +1.5% |
Canada compared with similar countries
- Canada's 15,284 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 94.64 1000 ha, 161.5× the median. (14 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Canada
- 1 Greenland 152,405 1000 ha compare
- 2 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 63.25 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 Canada
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly -2.52 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly -6.76 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.642 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.96 °C (2025)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 2.9 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 1.7 % change on previous year (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per unit 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), annual growth rate -0.3398 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Canada?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Canada was 15,284 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 Canada?
- The highest recorded value was 15,284 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Canada?
- The lowest recorded value was 14,044 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Canada rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Canada ranks 2nd out of 42 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Canada 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.