Temperature Change on Land, 1987

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Temperature Change on Land, 1987: 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)
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	1.510	0.465
CanadaCANNorthern America	1.348	0.642
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	1.237	0.381
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	1.158	0.422
MaliMLIWestern Africa	1.131	0.401
HaitiHTICaribbean	1.054	0.273
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	1.038	0.366
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	1.031	0.311
JamaicaJAMCaribbean	1.028	0.284
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	1.021	0.331
BeninBENWestern Africa	1.020	0.268
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	1.016	0.255
SenegalSENWestern Africa	1.014	0.432
TogoTGOWestern Africa	1.000	0.255
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia	0.995	0.303
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.978	0.319
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.977	0.260
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	0.976	0.265
EcuadorECUSouth America	0.931	0.400
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.931	0.221
United StatesUSANorthern America	0.917	0.306
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.900	0.401
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.889	0.521
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.883	0.285
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	0.878	0.278

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.503. “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: 0.296

• +0 / −1countries joined / left
• 164values changed, of 164 in both
• 119 · 45rose · 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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