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Temperature Change on Land, 2005

2005, 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, 2005 covers 188 countries on 2 measures. Finland is highest, at 2.204; Chile is lowest, at 0.068. The middle country reads 0.861. Against 2004, 188 values changed (119 up, 69 down), 2 left.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2005

HighestFinland

2.204

LowestChile

0.068

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, 2005, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 188 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2005: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.2040.986
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.8250.852
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.7690.738
RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.7010.586
SurinameSURSouth America1.6270.222
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe1.6030.899
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.5650.801
GuyanaGUYSouth America1.4990.299
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean1.4830.270
MaliMLIWestern Africa1.4480.401
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa1.4410.331
GambiaGMBWestern Africa1.4130.366
UgandaUGAEastern Africa1.4090.255
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa1.3950.381
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia1.3890.740
LatviaLVANorthern Europe1.3520.883
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.3330.311
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia1.3260.705
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa1.3250.303
MalawiMWIEastern Africa1.3080.254
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia1.3080.313
SenegalSENWestern Africa1.2960.432
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa1.2950.465
BarbadosBRBCaribbean1.2890.278
CanadaCANNorthern America1.2800.642

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Finland2.204
  2. Sweden1.825
  3. Norway1.769
  4. Russia1.701
  5. Suriname1.627

Lowest

  1. Chile0.068
  2. Bosnia and Herzegovina0.151
  3. Jordan0.187
  4. Argentina0.196
  5. North Macedonia0.201

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.861. “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: 0.320

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 188values changed, of 188 in both
  • 119 · 69rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Burundi− Rwanda

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 2005.

  • 172 distinct values among 188

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 4 countries share 0.839. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 188 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) (2005). Temperature Change on Land, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2005

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