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Temperature Change on Land, 2004

2004, 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, 2004 covers 190 countries on 2 measures. Kazakhstan is highest, at 2.167; New Zealand is lowest, at 0.037. The middle country reads 0.760. Against 2003, 190 values changed (64 up, 126 down), 1 left.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2004

HighestKazakhstan

2.167

LowestNew Zealand

0.037

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, 2004, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 190 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2004: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.1670.801
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia1.9480.740
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia1.7850.602
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia1.6850.705
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia1.6280.499
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia1.5840.581
IranIRNSouthern Asia1.4500.488
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia1.4370.547
TajikistanTJKCentral Asia1.4120.610
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa1.3990.465
RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.3970.586
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa1.3630.422
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.3540.516
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia1.3450.689
BahrainBHRWestern Asia1.3230.397
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.3130.738
MaliMLIWestern Africa1.2430.401
South KoreaKOREastern Asia1.2370.504
FinlandFINNorthern Europe1.2350.986
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.2000.852
IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.1980.587
QatarQATWestern Asia1.1830.396
BurundiBDIEastern Africa1.1810.273
SurinameSURSouth America1.1730.222
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.1720.899

02In 2004

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Kazakhstan2.167
  2. Uzbekistan1.948
  3. Mongolia1.785
  4. Turkmenistan1.685
  5. North Korea1.628

Lowest

  1. New Zealand0.037
  2. Botswana0.174
  3. Zimbabwe0.195
  4. Papua New Guinea0.231
  5. Seychelles0.246

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.760. “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

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 190 in both
  • 64 · 126rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Kiribati

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 2004.

  • 171 distinct values among 190

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.103. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 190 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2004). Temperature Change on Land, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2004

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