Temperature Change on Land, 1980

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Temperature Change on Land, 1980: 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)
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.996	0.401
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.943	0.432
CanadaCANNorthern America	0.922	0.642
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.891	0.465
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	0.838	0.345
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.796	0.331
UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.778	0.255
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	0.750	0.289
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.742	0.366
JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.723	0.284
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.672	0.285
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean	0.658	0.270
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean	0.658	0.270
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa	0.646	0.278
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	0.644	0.422
HaitiHTICaribbean	0.641	0.273
YemenYEMWestern Asia	0.641	0.274
KenyaKENEastern Africa	0.627	0.270
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.618	0.303
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.605	0.272
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	0.598	0.547
BarbadosBRBCaribbean	0.571	0.278
GuyanaGUYSouth America	0.561	0.299
UruguayURYSouth America	0.551	0.385
BelizeBLZCentral America	0.539	0.287

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.292. “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: 0.299

• +1 / −0countries joined / left
• 163values changed, of 163 in both
• 77 · 86rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Jamaica

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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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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