Temperature Change on Land, 1977

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Temperature Change on Land, 1977: 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)
CanadaCANNorthern America	1.086	0.642
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.793	0.450
El SalvadorSLVCentral America	0.713	0.270
OmanOMNWestern Asia	0.625	0.334
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.612	0.295
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.607	0.465
HondurasHNDCentral America	0.598	0.224
BulgariaBGREastern Europe	0.580	0.573
HungaryHUNEastern Europe	0.556	0.630
RomaniaROUEastern Europe	0.546	0.634
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.543	0.432
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	0.541	0.434
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.536	0.265
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.516	0.547
NicaraguaNICCentral America	0.504	0.243
MalawiMWIEastern Africa	0.499	0.254
AustriaAUTWestern Europe	0.494	0.529
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	0.494	0.421
UruguayURYSouth America	0.487	0.385
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	0.478	0.256
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.472	0.401
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.458	0.311
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.449	0.366
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	0.444	0.331
PolandPOLEastern Europe	0.428	0.777

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.215. “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

• +2 / −3countries joined / left
• 159values changed, of 159 in both
• 139 · 20rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Nauru+ Singapore− Cabo Verde− Jamaica− 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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  FAO’s own file, on its own site.

  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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