Australia vs France: Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature

Australia

1.5%

in 2024

France

1.3%

in 2024

Australia rank

11th

France rank

14th

Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature over time

Australia currently reports 1.5% against 1.3% in France, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Australia's figure about 1.2 times France's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 174 shared years of data; in 1851 it was France ahead.

Australia ranks 11th and France ranks 14th of 215 countries.

Indicator: Global warming: Contributions to the change in global mean surface temperature
Unit: %
Source: Jones et al. (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 215 places, 37,410 data points, 1851–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Measured as a percentage of the world's temperature change.