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Temperature Change on Land, 2008

2008, 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, 2008 covers 189 countries on 2 measures. Estonia is highest, at 2.596; Djibouti is lowest, at 0.074. The middle country reads 0.722. Against 2007, 189 values changed (43 up, 146 down), 4 left.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2008

HighestEstonia

2.596

LowestDjibouti

0.074

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, 2008, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 189 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2008: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.5960.899
LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.3880.883
BelarusBLREastern Europe2.2320.869
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.2160.889
RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.2130.586
FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.1310.986
SwedenSWENorthern Europe1.9580.852
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe1.8520.696
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia1.7880.602
PolandPOLEastern Europe1.7370.777
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe1.6390.630
NorwayNORNorthern Europe1.6200.738
UkraineUKREastern Europe1.6080.795
AustriaAUTWestern Europe1.5840.529
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe1.5770.523
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia1.5700.499
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia1.5440.801
GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.5390.613
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe1.5240.652
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe1.5120.733
HungaryHUNEastern Europe1.5040.630
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.4350.617
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1.4280.487
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe1.4000.466
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe1.3860.509

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Estonia2.596
  2. Latvia2.388
  3. Belarus2.232
  4. Lithuania2.216
  5. Russia2.213

Lowest

  1. Djibouti0.074
  2. Papua New Guinea0.148
  3. Angola0.178
  4. Laos0.199
  5. Vietnam0.201

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 0.722. “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: 0.324

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

  • +0 / −4countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 189 in both
  • 43 · 146rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Burundi− Palau− Rwanda− 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 2008.

  • 175 distinct values among 189

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 0.682. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 189 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) (2008). Temperature Change on Land, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2008

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