Temperature Change on Land, 1985

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Temperature Change on Land, 1985: 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)
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	0.784	0.284
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	0.709	0.211
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.666	0.521
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	0.639	0.321
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.627	0.275
MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.584	0.401
BelizeBLZCentral America	0.563	0.287
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	0.557	0.465
SenegalSENWestern Africa	0.526	0.432
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	0.518	0.313
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe	0.489	0.440
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.475	0.331
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.475	0.319
SpainESPSouthern Europe	0.467	0.402
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.462	0.285
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.454	0.401
BahrainBHRWestern Asia	0.450	0.397
ParaguayPRYSouth America	0.449	0.450
BeninBENWestern Africa	0.448	0.268
UruguayURYSouth America	0.447	0.385
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	0.439	0.303
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe	0.416	0.365
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	0.408	0.366
YemenYEMWestern Asia	0.407	0.274
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.406	0.281

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.099. “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

• +1 / −1countries joined / left
• 162values changed, of 162 in both
• 83 · 79rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Cabo Verde− Comoros

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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