Temperature Change on Land, 1969

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Temperature Change on Land, 1969: 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)
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.998	0.422
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.812	0.366
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	0.762	0.386
NigerNERWestern Africa	0.748	0.334
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.719	0.432
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.706	0.303
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.688	0.401
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.568	0.465
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.561	0.331
BoliviaBOLSouth America	0.546	0.304
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	0.534	0.303
ChadTCDMiddle Africa	0.526	0.274
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.516	0.397
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	0.509	0.318
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.507	0.424
SurinameSURSouth America	0.506	0.222
QatarQATWestern Asia	0.489	0.396
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	0.477	0.270
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	0.466	0.284
VenezuelaVENSouth America	0.462	0.301
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	0.458	0.306
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	0.453	0.288
PeruPERSouth America	0.451	0.295
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	0.445	0.361
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.431	0.321

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.196. “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

• +2 / −0countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 163 in both
• 129 · 34rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Costa Rica+ Singapore

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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