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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.

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Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation
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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.

Every edition of Agricultural Irrigated Land held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionCountriesChangeReadDownload
Agricultural Irrigated Land, 2023 compilation121—September 10, 2026CSV

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.

Every column in the newest file of Agricultural Irrigated Land: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1210
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1210
Reference yearreference_yearReading yearThe year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.Year—210
Irrigated share of agricultural land (%)irrigated_landHeadlineThe headline figure: Irrigated share of agricultural land (%).Number · up to 17 decimals0.003Iceland89.041Bangladeshmiddle 3.6601210

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.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Agricultural Irrigated Land, by continent.
2023
Africa24
Americas25
Asia33
Europe37
Oceania2
All121

One edition, covering 121 countries.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Agricultural Irrigated Land 2023

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

  5. 5 · 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.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • 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.

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