Temperature Change on Land, 1998

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Temperature Change on Land, 1998: 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)
CanadaCANNorthern America	2.479	0.642
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	2.145	0.602
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia	1.845	0.499
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	1.751	0.270
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	1.676	0.303
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	1.666	0.465
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	1.617	0.366
SurinameSURSouth America	1.603	0.222
SenegalSENWestern Africa	1.556	0.432
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	1.548	0.422
GrenadaGRDCaribbean	1.543	0.271
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	1.532	0.272
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	1.485	0.504
GuyanaGUYSouth America	1.479	0.299
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	1.472	0.521
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	1.427	0.288
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	1.415	0.764
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia	1.397	0.306
BarbadosBRBCaribbean	1.394	0.278
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	1.355	0.523
AustriaAUTWestern Europe	1.343	0.529
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	1.318	0.257
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	1.316	0.318
VenezuelaVENSouth America	1.311	0.301
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	1.294	0.397

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.015. “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: 0.318

• +5 / −1countries joined / left
• 182values changed, of 182 in both
• 150 · 32rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Burundi+ Republic of the Congo+ Equatorial Guinea+ Rwanda+ São Tomé and Príncipe− 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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