Temperature Change on Land, 1971

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Temperature Change on Land, 1971: 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)
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	0.674	0.379
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.610	0.547
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.315	0.412
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	0.264	0.696
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe	0.244	0.444
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.163	0.373
PolandPOLEastern Europe	0.140	0.777
FijiFJIMelanesia	0.133	0.219
TongaTONPolynesia	0.096	0.234
CubaCUBCaribbean	0.080	0.278
IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.077	0.488
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	0.050	0.628
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe	0.048	0.617
Channel IslandsCHINorthern Europe	0.041	0.484
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.041	0.313
ChinaCHNEastern Asia	0.037	0.279
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.037	0.401
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	0.036	0.852
VanuatuVUTMelanesia	0.036	0.225
GermanyDEUWestern Europe	0.031	0.613
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.006	0.321
RomaniaROUEastern Europe	-0.005	0.634
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	-0.010	0.345
CanadaCANNorthern America	-0.013	0.642
Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	-0.013	0.183

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads -0.203. “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

• +1 / −0countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 164 in both
• 32 · 131rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Nauru

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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