Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Europe
Europe: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 5,430 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Europe, 2015–2019
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 Europe is 5,430 1000 ha, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 1.8% over five years.
Europe ranks 7th of 25 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Europe
More environment data for Europe
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 27,700 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Area 170,878 1000 ha (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Agricultural land 37.54 % (2024)
- Permanent meadows and pastures — Share in Land area 7.72 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Share in Agricultural land 3.46 % (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 15,732 1000 ha (2024)
- Country area — Area 2.35 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Inland waters — Area 92,972 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area — Area 2.21 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 62.81 % (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Europe?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Europe was 5,430 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 Europe?
- The highest recorded value was 5,430 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Europe?
- The lowest recorded value was 5,334 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Europe rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Europe ranks 7th out of 25 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Europe 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.