Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in World
World: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS was 195,197 1000 ha in 2019. ▬ Flat
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from CGLS in World, 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 World stood at 195,197 1000 ha. 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 1.4% over five years.
World ranks 1st of 25 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near World
More environment data for World
- Inland waters — Area 443,046 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Area 354,701 1000 ha (2024)
- Land area equipped for irrigation — Share in Cropland 22.34 % (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Agricultural land 34.18 % (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 30.02 % (2024)
- Arable land — Area 1.39 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.19 ha/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Share in Land area 12.2 % (2024)
- Agricultural land — Value of agricultural production (Int. $) per Area 929.53 USD_PPP/ha (2024)
- Agricultural land — Area 4.64 million 1000 ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in World?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls in World was 195,197 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 World?
- The highest recorded value was 195,197 1000 ha in 2019.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls recorded in World?
- The lowest recorded value was 192,455 1000 ha in 2015.
- How does World rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from cgls?
- World ranks 1st out of 25 groups with data for 2019.
- Where does this World 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.