Temperature Change on Land, 1962

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Temperature Change on Land, 1962: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Country	Temperature change on land against 1951–1980 (°C)	Standard deviation of the 1951–1980 baseline (°C)
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	1.039	0.628
JordanJORWestern Asia	0.991	0.533
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	0.979	0.561
IraqIRQWestern Asia	0.910	0.549
IsraelISRWestern Asia	0.869	0.477
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	0.822	0.500
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	0.776	0.516
CyprusCYPWestern Asia	0.758	0.462
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	0.663	0.361
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.656	0.424
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.645	0.521
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe	0.601	0.430
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.591	0.379
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe	0.541	0.440
BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.453	0.573
SpainESPSouthern Europe	0.429	0.402
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.410	0.321
OmanOMNWestern Asia	0.403	0.334
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	0.402	0.331
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	0.397	0.365
QatarQATWestern Asia	0.387	0.396
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.355	0.397
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	0.340	0.434
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	0.283	0.386
IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.276	0.488

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.083. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Standard deviation of the 1951–1980 baseline (°C)

  HighestFinland0.986

  LowestIndonesia0.153

  Middle country: 0.297

• +1 / −1countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 164 in both
• 52 · 111rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Maldives− Nauru

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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  Environment_Temperature_change_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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