Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 0.09 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat

Latest (2019)
0.09 1000 ha
Change on year
unchanged
Rank
7th
of 11 groups
All-time high
0.09 1000 ha
in 2015
All-time low
0.09 1000 ha
in 2015
Years of data
5
2015–2019

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015–2019

00.020.040.060.082015201720192015: 0.09 1000 ha2016: 0.09 1000 ha2017: 0.09 1000 ha2018: 0.09 1000 ha2019: 0.09 1000 ha

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Democratic Republic of the Congo is 0.09 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over five years.

Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Democratic Republic of the Congo, year by year

Annual values for Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015 to 2019.
Year 1000 ha Change
2015 0.09 1000 ha
2016 0.09 1000 ha +0.0%
2017 0.09 1000 ha +0.0%
2018 0.09 1000 ha +0.0%
2019 0.09 1000 ha +0.0%

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Frequently asked questions

What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Democratic Republic of the Congo was 0.09 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 Democratic Republic of the Congo?
The highest recorded value was 0.09 1000 ha in 2015.
What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Democratic Republic of the Congo?
The lowest recorded value was 0.09 1000 ha in 2015.
How does Democratic Republic of the Congo rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
Democratic Republic of the Congo ranks 7th out of 11 groups with data for 2019.
Where does this Democratic Republic of the Congo 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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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.