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Temperature Change on Land, 2015

2015, 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, 2015 covers 193 countries on 2 measures. Finland is highest, at 2.613; Papua New Guinea is lowest, at 0.188. The middle country reads 1.234. Against 2014, 193 values changed (139 up, 54 down), the same countries are covered.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2015

HighestFinland

2.613

LowestPapua New Guinea

0.188

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, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 193 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2015: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
FinlandFINNorthern Europe2.6130.986
BahrainBHRWestern Asia2.3670.397
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.3480.899
RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.2410.586
BelarusBLREastern Europe2.1860.869
AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.1630.529
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia2.1430.602
LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.1230.883
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe2.1200.630
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.1170.523
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe2.1080.652
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia2.0970.516
SwedenSWENorthern Europe2.0780.852
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe2.0710.466
HungaryHUNEastern Europe2.0690.630
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.0620.889
QatarQATWestern Asia2.0410.396
UkraineUKREastern Europe2.0250.795
PolandPOLEastern Europe1.9880.777
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.9740.458
IraqIRQWestern Asia1.9210.549
MonacoMCOWestern Europe1.9030.338
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe1.8890.487
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.8750.424
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia1.8430.764

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Finland2.613
  2. Bahrain2.367
  3. Estonia2.348
  4. Russia2.241
  5. Belarus2.186

Lowest

  1. Papua New Guinea0.188
  2. Iceland0.339
  3. Ireland0.430
  4. Solomon Islands0.474
  5. Taiwan0.497

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.234. “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

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 193 in both
  • 139 · 54rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2015.

  • 187 distinct values among 193

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.401. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 193 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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Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2015). Temperature Change on Land, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2015

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