Temperature Change on Land, 1965

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Temperature Change on Land, 1965: 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	0.855	0.602
EcuadorECUSouth America	0.280	0.400
QatarQATWestern Asia	0.239	0.396
BoliviaBOLSouth America	0.238	0.304
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.221	0.397
UruguayURYSouth America	0.174	0.385
ChileCHLSouth America	0.159	0.266
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	0.156	0.361
MacauMACEastern Asia	0.156	0.361
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.139	0.424
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.136	0.345
PeruPERSouth America	0.135	0.295
BahamasBHSCaribbean	0.098	0.262
ArgentinaARGSouth America	0.096	0.306
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.080	0.381
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	0.078	0.331
ChinaCHNEastern Asia	0.075	0.279
CubaCUBCaribbean	0.063	0.278
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	0.046	0.516
Costa RicaCRICentral America	-0.018	0.257
IsraelISRWestern Asia	-0.021	0.477
JordanJORWestern Asia	-0.021	0.533
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	-0.022	0.421
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	-0.034	0.275
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	-0.035	0.218

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.232. “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

• +0 / −1countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 163 in both
• 56 · 107rose · fell
• 0unchanged

− Timor-Leste

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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