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Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008

2008, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008 covers 171 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 99.485; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 59.483. Against 2007, 103 values changed (49 up, 54 down), 10 countries joined, 2 left.

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Water Withdrawal by Sector · Data for 2008

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, 2008, 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 171 countries · select a heading to sort

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa99.4850.4550.06064
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.1700.9980.83199
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia98.1351.5540.31062
4MaliMLIWestern Africa97.8602.0630.07713
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa95.8922.9141.19423
6VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia94.7821.4703.74741
7GuyanaGUYSouth America94.5244.1081.36720
8EritreaERIEastern Africa94.5025.3260.17182
9TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia94.2982.7013.00136
10EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa94.1953.8671.93820
11BhutanBTNSouthern Asia94.0835.0300.88757
12CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia94.0024.4871.51099
13PakistanPAKSouthern Asia93.9775.2600.76315
14LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia93.8172.6793.50371
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia92.8832.8474.27035
16IranIRNSouthern Asia92.1766.6451.17899
17BoliviaBOLSouth America91.9546.4871.59788
18Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia91.3828.4470.17065
19SenegalSENWestern Africa91.2717.2021.52756
20TajikistanTJKCentral Asia90.9025.4293.66906
21AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia90.8413.5045.65481
22YemenYEMWestern Asia90.7437.4331.82328
23IndiaINDSouthern Asia90.5877.2792.13441
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa90.5797.0662.35521
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia90.4916.4323.07702

02In 2008

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. 2Afghanistan98.170
  3. 3Nepal98.135
  4. 4Mali97.860
  5. 5Madagascar95.892

Lowest

  1. 170Maldivesshared0.000
  2. 170Monacoshared0.000
  3. 169Luxembourg0.244
  4. 168Slovenia0.245
  5. 167Papua New Guinea0.255

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 59.483. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Withdrawn for households (% of total)

    HighestBrunei154.783

    LowestSomalia0.455

    Middle country: 19.549

  • Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

    HighestEstonia95.45711

    Lowest3 share it

    Middle country: 8.85374

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −2countries joined / left
  • 103values changed, of 161 in both
  • 49 · 54rose · fell
  • 58unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Bhutan+ Estonia+ Ireland+ Lithuania+ Maldives+ Peru+ Poland+ Portugal+ Romania− Italy− Türkiye

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 2008.

  • 170 distinct values among 171

    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.

  • 7 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) (2008). Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/water-withdrawal/2008

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07Questions

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest farming’s share of water use in Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008?

Somalia, at 99.485, of the 171 countries in the file.

What year does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008 cover?

171.

Where can I download Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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