Temperature Change on Land

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: temperature-change-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Temperature Change on Land: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	190	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	190	0
Temperature change on land against 1951–1980 (°C)temperature_changeHeadline	The headline figure: Change in mean land-surface temperature against the country's own 1951–1980 average, °C.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.340Solomon Islands3.294Kazakhstanmiddle 1.474	181	0
Standard deviation of the 1951–1980 baseline (°C)baseline_sdMeasure	How much the country's annual temperature normally varied from year to year in 1951–1980, in °C, for judging how unusual a change is.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.153Indonesia0.986Finlandmiddle 0.323	155	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 65 years.

Not in this dataset · 27 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Temperature Change on Land 2025

   Environment_Temperature_change_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   65 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as temperature-change-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/temperature-change

FAOSTAT's Temperature Change on Land domain, read from FAO's own bulk download, which FAO computes from NASA's GISS Surface Temperature Analysis. Only the annual figure is read; the monthly and seasonal ones in the same file are left out.

• Charted

  Temperature Change on Land by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Risk & Resilience

• Near neighbours

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