Temperature Change on Land, 2021

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Temperature Change on Land, 2021: 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)
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	2.726	0.516
IraqIRQWestern Asia	2.660	0.549
CanadaCANNorthern America	2.524	0.642
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	2.434	0.397
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	2.372	0.421
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	2.333	0.401
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	2.224	0.424
QatarQATWestern Asia	2.179	0.396
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	2.175	0.561
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	2.142	0.764
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	2.135	0.899
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	2.091	0.365
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	2.085	0.689
IranIRNSouthern Asia	2.075	0.488
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia	2.067	0.499
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	2.022	0.602
FinlandFINNorthern Europe	1.941	0.986
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	1.936	0.500
LatviaLVANorthern Europe	1.927	0.883
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	1.917	0.465
JordanJORWestern Asia	1.901	0.533
MaliMLIWestern Africa	1.900	0.401
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	1.897	0.386
SenegalSENWestern Africa	1.892	0.432
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	1.866	0.628

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.270. “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: 0.321

• +2 / −0countries joined / left
• 191values changed, of 191 in both
• 66 · 125rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Cabo Verde+ Eritrea

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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