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Temperature Change on Land, 2024

2024, 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, 2024 covers 191 countries on 2 measures. Belarus is highest, at 3.460; Iceland is lowest, at 0.117. The middle country reads 1.926. Against 2023, 191 values changed (160 up, 31 down), the same countries are covered.

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Temperature Change on Land · Data for 2024

HighestBelarus

3.460

LowestIceland

0.117

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, 2024, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 191 countries · select a heading to sort

Temperature Change on Land, 2024: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
BelarusBLREastern Europe3.4600.869
UkraineUKREastern Europe3.4180.795
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe3.4040.630
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe3.4020.594
CanadaCANNorthern America3.3590.642
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe3.3580.652
PolandPOLEastern Europe3.3500.777
HungaryHUNEastern Europe3.3460.630
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe3.3300.509
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe3.3080.487
AustriaAUTWestern Europe3.2880.529
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe3.2570.889
RomaniaROUEastern Europe3.2530.634
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe3.2250.523
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe3.2180.530
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe3.1680.733
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe3.1270.466
BulgariaBGREastern Europe3.1040.573
LatviaLVANorthern Europe3.0380.883
GermanyDEUWestern Europe3.0000.613
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe2.9990.483
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe2.8670.458
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe2.8610.434
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe2.8080.361
SurinameSURSouth America2.8020.222

02In 2024

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Belarus3.460
  2. Ukraine3.418
  3. Czechia3.404
  4. Serbia3.402
  5. Canada3.359

Lowest

  1. Iceland0.117
  2. Chile0.460
  3. Solomon Islands0.636
  4. New Zealand0.766
  5. Marshall Islands0.864

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.926. “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

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 191values changed, of 191 in both
  • 160 · 31rose · 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 2024.

  • 181 distinct values among 191

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 2.391. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 191 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

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2024). Temperature Change on Land, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/temperature-change/2024

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