Temperature Change on Land, 1996

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Temperature Change on Land, 1996: 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)
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	1.491	0.465
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa	1.366	0.422
MaliMLIWestern Africa	1.223	0.401
SenegalSENWestern Africa	1.209	0.432
GambiaGMBWestern Africa	1.147	0.366
NigerNERWestern Africa	1.093	0.334
SurinameSURSouth America	1.082	0.222
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa	1.007	0.303
GuyanaGUYSouth America	0.908	0.299
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	0.902	0.331
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	0.895	0.270
GuineaGINWestern Africa	0.838	0.285
RussiaRUSEastern Europe	0.806	0.586
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	0.804	0.521
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	0.795	0.401
GrenadaGRDCaribbean	0.790	0.271
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	0.785	0.272
BeninBENWestern Africa	0.784	0.268
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	0.779	0.516
IraqIRQWestern Asia	0.767	0.549
VenezuelaVENSouth America	0.765	0.301
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	0.754	0.281
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	0.749	0.255
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	0.732	0.272
American SamoaASMPolynesia	0.714	0.250

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.265. “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: 0.319

• +1 / −1countries joined / left
• 184values changed, of 185 in both
• 53 · 131rose · fell
• 1unchanged

+ Eritrea− São Tomé and Príncipe

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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