Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS in Americas
Americas: Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS was 220,003 1000 ha in 2024. ▼ Falling
Permanent snow and glaciers — Area from MODIS in Americas, 2001–2024
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.
Analysis
In 2024, permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis in Americas stood at 220,003 1000 ha.
That represents a change of up 27.9% on the previous year and down 0.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis in Americas peaked at 224,828 1000 ha in 2001 and was at its lowest, 172,012 1000 ha, in 2023.
That places Americas 2nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 24 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 221,975 1000 ha | 218,806 1000 ha | 224,828 1000 ha | 9 |
| 2010s | 220,928 1000 ha | 218,633 1000 ha | 224,165 1000 ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 210,776 1000 ha | 172,012 1000 ha | 221,099 1000 ha | 5 |
Countries ranked near Americas
- 1 Antarctica 1.18 million 1000 ha compare
- 2 Greenland 186,005 1000 ha compare
- 3 Canada 24,922 1000 ha compare
- 4 Russian Federation 8,881 1000 ha compare
- 5 Norway 3,744 1000 ha compare
More environment data for Americas
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per capita 14.92 kg/cap (2024)
- Cropland — Area per capita 0.36 ha/cap (2024)
- Arable land — Area 347,983 1000 ha (2024)
- Arable land — Share in Agricultural land 31.51 % (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per value of agricultural production 16.06 g/Int$ (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Agricultural Use 15.65 million t (2024)
- Permanent crops — Area 29,878 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Import quantity 19.01 million t (2024)
- Country area — Area 4.65 million 1000 ha (2024)
- Nutrient potash K2O (total) — Use per area of cropland 41.48 kg/ha (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis in Americas?
- Permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis in Americas was 220,003 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The highest recorded value was 224,828 1000 ha in 2001.
- What is the lowest permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis recorded in Americas?
- The lowest recorded value was 172,012 1000 ha in 2023.
- How does Americas rank for permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis?
- Americas ranks 2nd out of 29 groups with data for 2024.
- Is permanent snow and glaciers — area from modis rising or falling in Americas?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Americas 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 MODIS. 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.