Temperature Change on Land, 1973

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Temperature Change on Land, 1973: 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)
SwedenSWENorthern Europe	1.151	0.852
FinlandFINNorthern Europe	1.140	0.986
NorwayNORNorthern Europe	0.925	0.738
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.841	0.345
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.822	0.281
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.703	0.432
ChadTCDMiddle Africa	0.701	0.274
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	0.695	0.602
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.680	0.331
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	0.673	0.696
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.663	0.366
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.661	0.381
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	0.655	0.289
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.635	0.311
VanuatuVUTMelanesia	0.627	0.225
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.622	0.422
BeninBENWestern Africa	0.619	0.268
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.619	0.255
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.617	0.319
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia	0.616	0.499
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.592	0.313
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.587	0.285
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.578	0.260
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	0.569	0.278
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.560	0.303

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.273. “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: 0.297

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 166values changed, of 166 in both
• 141 · 25rose · fell
• 0unchanged

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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