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Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004

2004, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004 covers 161 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 99.485; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 59.812. Against 2003, 143 values changed (41 up, 102 down), 2 countries joined.

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Water Withdrawal by Sector · Data for 2004

HighestSomalia

99.485

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

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, 2004, 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 161 countries · select a heading to sort

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa99.4850.4550.0606
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.2570.9510.7924
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia98.0001.6670.3331
4MaliMLIWestern Africa97.9861.9160.0982
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa96.7272.1151.1581
6GuyanaGUYSouth America95.3533.4871.1606
7EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa94.6563.5601.7840
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia94.6411.4693.8904
9EritreaERIEastern Africa94.5025.3260.1718
10PakistanPAKSouthern Asia94.3084.3221.3706
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia94.2982.7013.0014
12KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia93.2932.9433.7633
13SenegalSENWestern Africa92.3905.3702.2392
14IranIRNSouthern Asia92.1766.6451.1790
15BoliviaBOLSouth America91.5166.5701.9136
16TajikistanTJKCentral Asia91.4584.9493.5932
17Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia91.3828.4470.1706
18IndiaINDSouthern Asia90.9947.0981.9086
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa90.9296.8032.2677
20YemenYEMWestern Asia90.6007.5421.8573
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa90.2449.1780.5789
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia90.1136.8902.9968
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa89.35210.1660.4823
24GreeceGRCSouthern Europe89.3478.9921.6613
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia88.6449.9621.3945

02In 2004

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia99.485
  2. 2Afghanistan98.257
  3. 3Nepal98.000
  4. 4Mali97.986
  5. 5Madagascar96.727

Lowest

  1. 160Maldivesshared0.000
  2. 160Monacoshared0.000
  3. 159Papua New Guinea0.272
  4. 158Luxembourg0.287
  5. 157Slovenia0.502

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 59.812. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Withdrawn for households (% of total)

    HighestBrunei167.935

    LowestSomalia0.455

    Middle country: 20.494

  • Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

    HighestEstonia90.5948

    Lowest2 share it

    Middle country: 9.0149

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 143values changed, of 159 in both
  • 41 · 102rose · fell
  • 16unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Palestine+ Timor-Leste

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 2004.

  • 160 distinct values among 161

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 10 decimals. 2 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • 6 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) (2004). Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/water-withdrawal/2004

0633 held

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07Questions

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest farming’s share of water use in Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004?

Somalia, at 99.485, of the 161 countries in the file.

What year does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004 cover?

161.

Where can I download Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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