Water Withdrawal by Sector

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

Freshwater withdrawn for agriculture (% of total)is built fromWithdrawn for households (% of total)Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

Every column in the newest file of Water Withdrawal by Sector: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	173	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	173	0
Freshwater withdrawn for agriculture (% of total)water_agricultureHeadline	The headline figure: Freshwater withdrawn for agriculture (% of total).	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.0003 share it99.485Somaliamiddle 62.145	171	0
Withdrawn for households (% of total)water_domesticPart of the headline	Share of all freshwater withdrawn that goes to households and other municipal supply, in per cent.	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.455Somalia164.674Bruneimiddle 19.602	173	0
Withdrawn for industry (% of total)water_industryPart of the headline	Share of all freshwater withdrawn that goes to industry, including cooling water for power stations, in per cent.	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.0006 share it94.197Montenegromiddle 7.392	167	1

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.

The newest 12 of 33 years.

Not in this dataset · 45 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 IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint 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 Withdrawal by Sector 2022

   ER.H2O.FWAG.ZS

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

   33 files, one per year

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

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/water-withdrawal

From FAO's AQUASTAT via the World Bank's indicator API, combining three sector codes. Rows whose shares do not add up to 100 are dropped — 106 of them, including Bolivia's impossible 521.9%.