Temperature Change on Land, 1979

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Temperature Change on Land, 1979: 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	1.280	0.516
IraqIRQWestern Asia	1.209	0.549
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	0.949	0.602
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.933	0.465
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	0.928	0.424
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia	0.911	0.628
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	0.899	0.561
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.898	0.397
QatarQATWestern Asia	0.873	0.396
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.794	0.432
JordanJORWestern Asia	0.788	0.533
NigerNERWestern Africa	0.683	0.334
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	0.682	0.500
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia	0.670	0.499
IranIRNSouthern Asia	0.658	0.488
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.638	0.401
IsraelISRWestern Asia	0.633	0.477
GuyanaGUYSouth America	0.625	0.299
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.609	0.401
CyprusCYPWestern Asia	0.607	0.462
South KoreaKOREastern Asia	0.604	0.504
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.599	0.422
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa	0.592	0.361
GhanaGHAWestern Africa	0.590	0.260
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	0.582	0.381

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.312. “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: 0.300

• +0 / −0countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 163 in both
• 123 · 40rose · 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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