Dataset · FAO
Agricultural Irrigated Land
Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation · 121 countries
This is how much of a country's farmland is irrigated rather than rain-fed. Irrigation is what turns water into food — and what leaves a farming system exposed when the water runs short.
This site holds one edition, Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Agricultural Irrigated Land · the file
- Newest
- Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation
- Held
- 1 edition · 121 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
01One edition
Every edition
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.
| Edition | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation | 121 | — | September 10, 2026 | CSV |
Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: irrigated-land-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
024 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 121 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 121 | 0 | |
Reference yearreference_yearReading year | The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side. | Year | — | 21 | 0 | |
Irrigated share of agricultural land (%)irrigated_landHeadline | The headline figure: Irrigated share of agricultural land (%). | Number · up to 17 decimals | 0.003 | 121 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.
03121 countries across every edition
Who is covered
How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2023 | |
|---|---|
| Africa | 24 |
| Americas | 25 |
| Asia | 33 |
| Europe | 37 |
| Oceania | 2 |
| All | 121 |
One edition, covering 121 countries.
Not in this dataset · 104 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Agricultural Irrigated Land 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
1 file, one per edition
It downloads as a CSV: irrigated-land-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 17 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From FAO's AQUASTAT via the World Bank's indicator API. Taken as one reading per country: no single year reaches 80 countries, while 121 have reported at some point.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 10, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Agricultural Irrigated Land, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Agricultural Irrigated Land, Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/irrigated-land
The publisher’s own citation: FAO. AQUASTAT. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Agricultural Irrigated Land: questions and answers
What is the Agricultural Irrigated Land?
This is how much of a country's farmland is irrigated rather than rain-fed. Irrigation is what turns water into food — and what leaves a farming system exposed when the water runs short.
Which editions of the Agricultural Irrigated Land can I download?
One: Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation, as a CSV file.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.