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Temperature Change on Land, 2022

2022, 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, 2022 covers 193 countries on 2 measures. Andorra is highest, at 3.147; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.085. The middle country reads 1.199. Against 2021, 193 values changed (81 up, 112 down), the same countries are covered.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2022

HighestAndorra

3.147

Lowest2 countries share it

0.085

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
AndorraANDSouthern Europe3.1470.417
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe2.9170.601
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.8820.458
FranceFRAWestern Europe2.8690.427
MonacoMCOWestern Europe2.7930.338
BelgiumBELWestern Europe2.7880.574
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia2.6960.801
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe2.6550.466
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia2.6270.740
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia2.6050.581
GermanyDEUWestern Europe2.5930.613
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe2.5790.617
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia2.5540.705
AustriaAUTWestern Europe2.5350.529
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe2.4950.523
Channel IslandsCHINorthern Europe2.4330.484
SpainESPSouthern Europe2.4010.402
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe2.3810.630
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia2.3200.516
IranIRNSouthern Asia2.2760.488
RussiaRUSEastern Europe2.2690.586
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa2.2470.521
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe2.2310.696
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia2.2260.602
IraqIRQWestern Asia2.2200.549

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Andorra3.147
  2. Luxembourg2.917
  3. Switzerland2.882
  4. France2.869
  5. Monaco2.793

Lowest

  1. Namibiashared0.085
  2. Botswanashared0.085
  3. Chile0.231
  4. Eritrea0.295
  5. Zimbabwe0.382

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.199. “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

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 193 in both
  • 81 · 112rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Libya1.897 → 0.556−1.341
  • Canada2.524 → 1.256−1.268
  • Egypt1.688 → 0.613−1.075
  • Niger1.476 → 0.449−1.027
  • Eritrea1.242 → 0.295−0.947

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 2022.

  • 184 distinct values among 193

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.220. 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) (2022). Temperature Change on Land, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2022

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