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Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999

1999, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999 covers 144 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 99.6426; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 61.3455. Against 1998, 133 values changed (47 up, 86 down), 2 countries joined.

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Water Withdrawal by Sector · Data for 1999

HighestSomalia

99.6426

Lowest2 countries share it

0.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 144 countries · select a heading to sort

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa99.64260.3570.000
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.61430.8010.585
3MaliMLIWestern Africa98.13511.6970.168
4GuyanaGUYSouth America97.66621.7390.595
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa97.36821.7270.905
6TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia96.74782.2481.004
7EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa96.52412.2831.193
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia94.53933.4911.970
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia93.81673.1433.040
10VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia93.78891.5734.638
11MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa93.57504.8351.590
12IranIRNSouthern Asia93.36385.4921.144
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia92.89243.2953.812
14Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia92.52323.6803.797
15SurinameSURSouth America92.35294.5653.082
16IndiaINDSouthern Asia91.52436.7241.752
17UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia91.32005.3493.331
18BoliviaBOLSouth America90.97986.6842.337
19OmanOMNWestern Asia90.78747.0732.140
20YemenYEMWestern Asia90.18257.9001.918
21SenegalSENWestern Africa90.07346.2043.723
22MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia89.63389.4040.962
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe88.65878.9212.420
24HaitiHTICaribbean88.630310.0291.341
25SyriaSYRWestern Asia88.44748.4983.055

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Somalia99.6426
  2. 2Afghanistan98.6143
  3. 3Mali98.1351
  4. 4Guyana97.6662
  5. 5Madagascar97.3682

Lowest

  1. 143Maldivesshared0.0000
  2. 143Monacoshared0.0000
  3. 142Luxembourg0.3306
  4. 141Belgium0.3822
  5. 140Lithuania0.5373

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 61.3455. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Withdrawn for households (% of total)

    HighestMonaco100.000

    LowestSomalia0.357

    Middle country: 18.745

  • Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

    HighestLithuania93.876

    Lowest3 share it

    Middle country: 8.862

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 133values changed, of 142 in both
  • 47 · 86rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Comoros

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1999.

  • 143 distinct values among 144

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 10 decimals. 2 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    FAO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 11 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (1999). Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/water-withdrawal/1999

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07Questions

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest farming’s share of water use in Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999?

Somalia, at 99.6426, of the 144 countries in the file.

What year does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999 cover?

144.

Where can I download Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Water Withdrawal by Sector, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2022.

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