Water-Use Efficiency

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: water-use-efficiency-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Water-Use Efficiency: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	168	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	168	0
Economic value added per cubic metre of freshwater withdrawn (US$ per m³)water_use_efficiencyHeadline	The headline figure: Value added per cubic metre of freshwater withdrawn (constant US$ per m³).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.38Madagascar1,378.18Luxembourgmiddle 16.10	163	0
Agriculture (US$ per m³)agricultureMeasure	Value added by irrigated agriculture per cubic metre of water it withdraws, in US dollars.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.00Niger35.10Netherlandsmiddle 0.34	93	4
Industry (US$ per m³)industryMeasure	Value added by industry per cubic metre of water it withdraws, in US dollars.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.19Montenegro55,289.97Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesmiddle 65.53	168	0
Services (US$ per m³)servicesMeasure	Value added by services per cubic metre of water they withdraw, in US dollars.	Number · up to 2 decimals	6.12Syria1,442.99Singaporemiddle 62.64	168	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. A higher value is the better result.

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Not in this dataset · 57 places this site covers

FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaArubaBahamasBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBritish Virgin IslandsBruneiCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDjiboutiDominicaEquatorial GuineaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMaldivesMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaPuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSamoaSan MarinoSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandTaiwanTongaTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   fao.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Water-Use Efficiency 2023

   SDG_BulkDownloads_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   24 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as water-use-efficiency-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/water-use-efficiency

FAOSTAT's SDG Indicators domain, read from FAO's own bulk download; FAO computes the indicator from AQUASTAT, its water database. Readings are published to two decimal places.

• Charted

  Water-Use Efficiency by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Economy & Innovation

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