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Temperature Change on Land, 2019

2019, 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, 2019 covers 192 countries on 2 measures. Poland is highest, at 2.622; Chile is lowest, at 0.392. The middle country reads 1.421. Against 2018, 192 values changed (127 up, 65 down), 1 left.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2019

HighestPoland

2.622

LowestChile

0.392

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, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2019: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
PolandPOLEastern Europe2.6220.777
BelarusBLREastern Europe2.6060.869
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe2.5760.889
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe2.5440.630
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe2.4120.652
LatviaLVANorthern Europe2.4080.883
AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.3590.529
HungaryHUNEastern Europe2.3480.630
GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.3210.613
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.3140.523
UkraineUKREastern Europe2.3080.795
RomaniaROUEastern Europe2.2050.634
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe2.1950.899
RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.1840.586
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.1780.696
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe2.1750.733
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe2.1460.601
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.1290.617
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe2.1170.594
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe2.1120.466
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.1090.458
BulgariaBGREastern Europe2.0880.573
LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia2.0850.318
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa2.0710.319
BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.0630.574

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Poland2.622
  2. Belarus2.606
  3. Lithuania2.576
  4. Czechia2.544
  5. Slovakia2.412

Lowest

  1. Chile0.392
  2. Papua New Guinea0.445
  3. Pakistan0.616
  4. Solomon Islands0.652
  5. Argentina0.660

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.421. “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: 0.323

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 192values changed, of 192 in both
  • 127 · 65rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Palau

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 2019.

  • 175 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 3 countries share 1.254. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 192 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

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2019). Temperature Change on Land, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2019

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