Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS in South America
South America: Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS was 3,658 1000 ha in 2019. β¬ Flat
Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS in South America, 2015β2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
South America recorded 3,658 1000 ha for permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
The figure is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.4% over five years.
That places South America 4th out of 28 groups with data for 2019, putting it in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near South America
More environment data for South America
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.218 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.23 Β°C (2025)
- Industrial roundwood β Export value 588,787 1000 USD (2024)
- Sawlogs and veneer logs β Production 104.85 million m3 (2024)
- Wood fuel, non-coniferous β Production 178.75 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood β Production 290.00 million m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood β Import quantity 62,421 m3 (2024)
- Industrial roundwood β Import value 18,333 1000 USD (2024)
- Industrial roundwood β Export quantity 4.28 million m3 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in South America?
- Permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in South America was 3,658 1000 ha in 2019, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls recorded in South America?
- The highest recorded value was 3,658 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls recorded in South America?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,539 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does South America rank for permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls?
- South America ranks 4th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this South America data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Permanent snow and glaciers β 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 UniversitΓ© 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.