FAOSTAT releases today new temperature change statistics for the period 1961–2024 for 198 countries and 39 territories.

The FAOSTAT Temperature change on land dataset allows to monitor the observed warming trends on land at the country, regional and global level, with annual, seasonal and monthly means, to help gauge expected risks to food and agriculture.

The 2025 update released today provides country-level information on observed temperature change trends on land, as a basis to help identify risk and design the responses necessary to safeguard the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors.

Data are produced in collaboration with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA–GISS).

The next data release is planned for March 2026.

Main findings:

• The 2024 global mean annual temperature change on land was 2.1 °C compared to the 1951–1980 baseline, the highest on record. The last ten years since 2015 were the ten warmest years on record.
• In 2024, monthly mean global temperatures on land were the highest on record for the months of April, May and June. They were the second highest on record for the other months.
• The Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 °C was surpassed in all regions in 2024, except in Oceania (1.4 °C): Europe and the Americas recorded the largest temperature increases (2.4 °C), followed by Asia (2.1 °C), Africa (1.8 °C) and Oceania.
• Among subregions in 2024, warming was strongest in Northern America (2.8 °C), Western Europe (2.7 °C), Southern Europe (2.6 °C) and Eastern Europe (2.4 °C). The lowest warming was observed in Melanesia, Polynesia (both 1.2 °C) and Middle Africa (1.3 °C).
• In 2024, 163 countries and territories experienced mean annual warming greater than 1.5 °C, of which 88 with warming greater than 2.0 °C. The Svalbard Islands (Norway) recorded the largest warming (3.7 °C). Nine of the ten countries with the highest warming in 2024 were in Europe (Canada being the tenth); their temperature change was above 3.3 °C.
• Countries exposed to warming greater than 1.5 °C in 2024 account for 67 percent of the world population (5.4 billion people) and 73 percent of the agricultural land area (3.5 billion hectares).