Temperature Change on Land, 1988

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Temperature Change on Land, 1988: 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)
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	1.289	0.401
CanadaCANNorthern America	1.199	0.642
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	1.185	0.421
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	1.115	0.365
JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.947	0.284
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe	0.945	0.466
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.934	0.547
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	0.920	0.458
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	0.917	0.696
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.914	0.345
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	0.911	0.386
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.889	0.613
AndorraANDSouthern Europe	0.888	0.417
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.877	0.432
HaitiHTICaribbean	0.869	0.273
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.867	0.366
YemenYEMWestern Asia	0.844	0.274
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.842	0.465
FijiFJIMelanesia	0.839	0.219
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.832	0.521
AustriaAUTWestern Europe	0.821	0.529
ItalyITASouthern Europe	0.815	0.324
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.812	0.401
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.804	0.221
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	0.797	0.617

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.512. “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 / −0countries joined / left
• 164values changed, of 164 in both
• 72 · 92rose · fell
• 0unchanged

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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