Temperature Change on Land, 1963

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Temperature Change on Land, 1963: 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)
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	1.153	0.602
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.864	0.547
IsraelISRWestern Asia	0.848	0.477
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.847	0.450
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	0.780	0.500
JordanJORWestern Asia	0.779	0.533
IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.760	0.488
CyprusCYPWestern Asia	0.713	0.462
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	0.650	0.361
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.610	0.397
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	0.557	0.561
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	0.486	0.628
IraqIRQWestern Asia	0.468	0.549
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.459	0.424
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	0.457	0.516
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.428	0.373
United StatesUSANorthern America	0.423	0.306
BoliviaBOLSouth America	0.420	0.304
OmanOMNWestern Asia	0.408	0.334
NigerNERWestern Africa	0.407	0.334
CanadaCANNorthern America	0.335	0.642
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.332	0.422
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	0.331	0.361
MacauMACEastern Asia	0.331	0.361
UruguayURYSouth America	0.329	0.385

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.042. “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: 0.298

• +0 / −1countries joined / left
• 164values changed, of 164 in both
• 79 · 85rose · fell
• 0unchanged

− Maldives

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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