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Temperature Change on Land, 2001

2001, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

This is how much warmer — or, occasionally, colder — a country's land surface was over a year than its own average for 1951–1980, in degrees Celsius. FAO calculates it for every country from NASA's global surface temperature record, which makes it the plainest country-by-country measure of how far the climate has already moved.

Temperature Change on Land, 2001 covers 187 countries on 2 measures. Belarus is highest, at 1.956; Chile is lowest, at -0.114. The middle country reads 0.735. Against 2000, 184 values changed (135 up, 49 down), 3 countries joined, 3 left.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2001

HighestBelarus

1.956

LowestChile

-0.114

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Temperature Change on Land, 2001, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2001: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
BelarusBLREastern Europe1.9560.869
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa1.8480.421
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.8310.899
LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.8000.883
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa1.7930.401
UkraineUKREastern Europe1.7900.795
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe1.7830.889
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.7080.523
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia1.7040.602
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.6910.521
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe1.6780.361
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe1.6700.733
BulgariaBGREastern Europe1.6690.573
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.6540.801
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe1.6490.483
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe1.5910.434
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1.5810.487
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia1.5780.740
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe1.5760.365
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia1.5640.705
RomaniaROUEastern Europe1.5570.634
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe1.5480.509
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.5420.628
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.5150.581
ItalyITASouthern Europe1.5130.324

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Belarus1.956
  2. Tunisia1.848
  3. Estonia1.831
  4. Latvia1.800
  5. Algeria1.793

Lowest

  1. Chile-0.114
  2. Botswana-0.075
  3. Angola0.118
  4. Honduras0.147
  5. Niger0.200

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.735. “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: 0.321

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

  • +3 / −3countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 135 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Rwanda+ Sierra Leone− Antigua and Barbuda− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Solomon Islands

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 2001.

  • 175 distinct values among 187

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.275. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 187 countries has every column.

05The files

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2001). Temperature Change on Land, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2001

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