Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Colombia

Colombia: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 7.57 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
7.57 1000 ha
Change on year
unchanged
World rank
31st
of 52 countries
All-time high
7.57 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
7.57 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Colombia, 2015–2019

024682015201720192015: 7.6 1000 ha2016: 7.6 1000 ha2017: 7.6 1000 ha2018: 7.6 1000 ha2019: 7.6 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Colombia recorded 7.57 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 unchanged over five years.

That places Colombia 31st out of 52 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the middle of the range.

Countries ranked near Colombia

  1. 28 Sweden 38.62 1000 ha compare
  2. 29 Ecuador 13.18 1000 ha compare
  3. 30 Uzbekistan 12.36 1000 ha compare
  4. 32 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 5.61 1000 ha compare
  5. 33 Myanmar 4.28 1000 ha compare
  6. 34 Türkiye 1.38 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Colombia?
Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Colombia was 7.57 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 Colombia?
The highest recorded value was 7.57 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Colombia?
The lowest recorded value was 7.57 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Colombia rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
Colombia ranks 31st out of 52 countries with data for 2019.
Where does this Colombia 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

Indicator
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
77 places, 385 data points, 2015–2019
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.