Temperature Change on Land, 1991

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Temperature Change on Land, 1991: 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)
FinlandFINNorthern Europe	1.138	0.986
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	1.109	0.602
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	1.030	0.852
NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.991	0.738
NigerNERWestern Africa	0.910	0.334
CubaCUBCaribbean	0.887	0.278
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.874	0.366
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.831	0.303
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.818	0.432
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.796	0.345
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.784	0.465
BahamasBHSCaribbean	0.776	0.262
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.755	0.450
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.744	0.285
JapanJPNEastern Asia	0.733	0.358
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.733	0.401
TuvaluTUVPolynesia	0.714	0.202
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	0.705	0.361
MacauMACEastern Asia	0.705	0.361
American SamoaASMPolynesia	0.686	0.250
HaitiHTICaribbean	0.660	0.273
IcelandISLNorthern Europe	0.642	0.587
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.640	0.281
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	0.639	0.306
BelizeBLZCentral America	0.638	0.287

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.388. “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
• 161values changed, of 161 in both
• 71 · 90rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Micronesia+ Marshall Islands− Equatorial Guinea− Timor-Leste− Yemen

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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