Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Iceland
Iceland: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 1,132 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Iceland, 2015–2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2019, permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Iceland stood at 1,132 1000 ha. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.1% on the previous year and up 0.4% over five years.
That places Iceland 8th out of 42 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in Iceland, year by year
| Year | 1000 ha | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,127 1000 ha | — |
| 2016 | 1,129 1000 ha | +0.2% |
| 2017 | 1,131 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2018 | 1,131 1000 ha | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 1,132 1000 ha | +0.1% |
Iceland compared with similar countries
- Iceland's 1,132 1000 ha is above the median for high income countries, which is 94.64 1000 ha, 12.0× the median. (14 countries reporting)
- Iceland's 1,132 1000 ha is above the median for Europe & Central Asia, which is 46.51 1000 ha, 24.3× the median. (20 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Iceland
- 5 Chile 2,795 1000 ha compare
- 5 United Republic of Tanzania 0.46 1000 ha compare
- 6 Russian Federation 2,697 1000 ha compare
- 6 Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 0.11 1000 ha compare
- 7 Democratic Republic of the Congo 0.09 1000 ha compare
- 7 Norway 1,279 1000 ha compare
- 9 Tajikistan 1,126 1000 ha compare
- 9 Melanesia 0 1000 ha
- 9 Micronesia 0 1000 ha
- 9 Polynesia 0 1000 ha
- 10 India 848.73 1000 ha compare
- 11 Kyrgyzstan 826.54 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Iceland
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 3.89 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.587 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.47 °C (2025)
- Total greenhouse gas emissions excluding LULUCF (Mt CO2e), annual 0.8549 % 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 -1.93 % change on previous year (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per unit of GDP 0 Mt CO2e per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Methane (CH4) emissions from Agriculture (Mt CO2e), per capita 0 Mt CO2e per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Iceland?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in Iceland was 1,132 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 Iceland?
- The highest recorded value was 1,132 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in Iceland?
- The lowest recorded value was 1,127 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Iceland rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- Iceland ranks 8th out of 42 countries with data for 2019.
- Where does this Iceland 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.