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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Planet Health. 2020 Nov;4(11):e512–e521. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30222-9

Table 2:

Temporal trends of projected average temperature by representative concentration pathway and country or region

Representative concentration pathway 2.6 Representative concentration pathway 8.5
2020–29 2050–59 2090–99 2020–29 2050–59 2090–99
North America
Canada 7·8 (3·2–11·4) 8·4 (3·9–12·0) 8·2 (3·7–11·9) 7·9 (3·7–11·5) 9·8 (5·6–13·3) 12·9 (8·8–16·3)
USA 16·1 (9·8–26·0) 16·6 (10·5–26·3) 16·4 (10·2–26·5) 16·1 (9·6–26·1) 17·8 (11·6–27·2) 20·4 (14·6–29·5)
Central America
Mexico 18·8 (16·9–20·7) 19·2 (17·2–21·1) 19·0 (17·1–20·9) 18·7 (16·8–20·6) 20·3 (18·3–22·2) 22·7 (20·6–24·7)
South America
Brazil 25·0 (18·1–28·0) 25·3 (18·3–28·3) 25·3 (18·4–28·4) 25·2 (18·4–28·1) 26·4 (19·8–29·8) 28·7 (21·8–32·7)
Argentina 18·3 (18·0–18·8) 18·8 (18·5–19·2) 18·9 (18·5–19·3) 18·4 (18·1–18·8) 19·4 (19·1–19·9) 21·2 (20·9–21·7)
East Asia
South Korea 14·4 (13·3–15·6) 15·0 (13·8–16·1) 14·8 (13·7–15·9) 14·5 (13·4–15·6) 16·1 (15·0–17·1) 18·6 (17·6–19·4)
Japan 16·1 (10·0–23·7) 16·6 (10·5–24·0) 16·3 (10·5–23·9) 16·0 (10·0–23·7) 17·6 (11·8–24·8) 19·8 (14·5–26·4)
Southeast Asia
Taiwan 24·3 (23·5–25·3) 24·6 (23·8–25·7) 24·5 (23·8–25·6) 24·3 (23·5–25·4) 25·5 (24·7–26·6) 27·3 (26·5–28·5)
Thailand 27·9 (25·3–29·9) 28·1 (25·5–30·1) 28·2 (25·6–30·2) 28·1 (25·7–30·0) 29·4 (26·9–31·3) 31·6 (29·3–33·4)
Oceania
Australia 18·6 (16·3–20·8) 18·9 (16·6–21·1) 18·9 (16·4–21·2) 18·9 (16·7–20·8) 19·9 (17·6–21·9) 21·9 (19·6–23·7)
Northern Europe
Finland 7·9 (7·9–7·9) 8·1 (8·1–8·1) 7·9 (7·9–7·9) 7·7 (7·7–7·7) 9·4 (9·4–9·4) 12·2 (12·2–12·2)
Estonia 7·4 (6·9–7·7) 7·6 (7·1–7·9) 7·4 (6·9–7·7) 7·3 (6·8–7·7) 9·0 (8·5–9·3) 11·7 (11·3–12·0)
Ireland 10·9 (10·4–11·5) 11·0 (10·5–11·6) 10·8 (10·3–11·5) 11·0 (10·5–11·6) 11·7 (11·3–12·3) 13·4 (13·0–13·9)
UK 11·0 (10·2–12·4) 11·2 (10·4–12·6) 10·9 (10·1–12·3) 11·1 (10·2–12·4) 12·0 (11·1–13·4) 13·9 (12·9–15·3)
Central Europe
Moldova 11·8 (11·3–12·3) 12·3 (11·8–12·8) 12·1 (11·5–12·6) 11·8 (11·2–12·3) 13·3 (12·8–13·8) 15·8 (15·3–16·4)
Switzerland 11·1 (9·3–13·7) 11·4 (9·6–14·0) 11·2 (9·4–13·8) 11·2 (9·4–13·8) 12·5 (10·7–15·1) 15·0 (13·1–17·7)
France 13·1 (11·3–16·9) 13·4 (11·4–17·1) 13·2 (11·2–17·0) 13·2 (11·4–16·8) 14·4 (12·4–18·2) 16·7 (14·5–20·5)
Southern Europe
Spain 16·2 (11·6–22·1) 16·5 (12·0–22·5) 16·4 (11·7–22·5) 16·2 (11·6–22·2) 17·7 (13·1–23·3) 20·2 (15·5–24·9)
Portugal 16·6 (15·7–17·5) 16·9 (16·0–17·9) 16·8 (15·9–17·8) 16·7 (15·8–17·7) 18·0 (17·1–19·0) 20·2 (19·3–21·1)
South Africa
South Africa 18·4 (12·9–22·9) 18·7 (13·2–23·2) 18·7 (13·2–23·3) 18·5 (13·1–23·1) 20·0 (14·3–24·4) 22·4 (16·1–26·8)

Data are mean country-specific or region-specific temperature (range) as general circulation model-ensemble. Countries are arranged in order of latitude within each region.