Temperature Change on Land, 1978

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Temperature Change on Land, 1978: 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	0.906	0.602
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	0.796	0.504
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.740	0.313
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia	0.718	0.499
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.705	0.450
MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	0.564	0.297
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.512	0.465
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.494	0.432
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa	0.440	0.258
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.431	0.295
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.382	0.379
Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	0.373	0.193
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.369	0.366
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	0.353	0.256
BoliviaBOLSouth America	0.351	0.304
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.328	0.401
BarbadosBRBCaribbean	0.321	0.278
ArgentinaARGSouth America	0.316	0.306
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.313	0.321
VenezuelaVENSouth America	0.312	0.301
OmanOMNWestern Asia	0.311	0.334
IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.273	0.488
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	0.273	0.270
ChileCHLSouth America	0.272	0.266
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.270	0.303

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.098. “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: 0.300

• +2 / −0countries joined / left
• 161values changed, of 161 in both
• 52 · 109rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Cabo Verde+ 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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