Temperature Change on Land, 1984

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Temperature Change on Land, 1984: 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)
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.795	0.281
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.777	0.331
FinlandFINNorthern Europe	0.757	0.986
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.734	0.319
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.680	0.211
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.654	0.260
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.653	0.432
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.635	0.366
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.632	0.401
NigerNERWestern Africa	0.591	0.334
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	0.589	0.852
TogoTGOWestern Africa	0.571	0.255
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.567	0.265
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.564	0.303
BeninBENWestern Africa	0.546	0.268
NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.544	0.738
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.523	0.450
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.518	0.255
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.514	0.381
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.509	0.465
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.504	0.275
ChadTCDMiddle Africa	0.489	0.274
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.488	0.255
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.463	0.311
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.439	0.285

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.056. “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 / −3countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 163 in both
• 40 · 123rose · fell
• 0unchanged

− Burundi− Cabo Verde− Rwanda

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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