Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS in Southern Asia
Southern Asia: Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS was 2,179 1000 ha in 2019. β² Rising
Permanent snow and glaciers β Area from CGLS in Southern Asia, 2015β2019
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
Southern Asia recorded 2,179 1000 ha for permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in 2019. That is the highest value across all 5 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 2.0% on the previous year and up 6.7% over five years.
Southern Asia ranks 6th of 28 groups on this measure, in the top quarter.
Countries ranked near Southern Asia
- 3 China (Peopleβs Republic of) 6,310 1000 ha compare
- 3 China, mainland 6,310 1000 ha compare
- 5 Chile 2,795 1000 ha compare
- 6 Russian Federation 2,697 1000 ha compare
- 7 Norway 1,279 1000 ha compare
- 8 Iceland 1,132 1000 ha compare
- 9 Tajikistan, Republic of 1,126 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Southern Asia
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.274 Β°C (2025)
- Temperature change 1.44 Β°C (2025)
- Recovered paper β Production 8.45 million t (2024)
- Total fibre furnish β Production 15.39 million t (2024)
- Cropland β Area 238,515 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per capita 1.52 kg/cap (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) β Use per value of agricultural production 4.25 g/Int$ (2024)
- Country area β Area 688,043 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area β Area 639,262 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in Southern Asia?
- Permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls in Southern Asia was 2,179 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 Southern Asia?
- The highest recorded value was 2,179 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls recorded in Southern Asia?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,042 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does Southern Asia rank for permanent snow and glaciers β area from cgls?
- Southern Asia ranks 6th out of 28 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this Southern Asia 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.