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Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011

2011, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011 covers 173 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 99.4845; Monaco is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 59.6974. Against 2010, 106 values changed (57 up, 49 down), 2 left.

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Water Withdrawal by Sector · Data for 2011

HighestSomalia

99.4845

LowestMonaco

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, 2011, 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 173 countries · select a heading to sort

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa99.48450.4550.0606
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.16960.9980.8320
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia98.13521.5540.3106
4MaliMLIWestern Africa97.85962.0630.0771
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa95.89212.9141.1942
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia95.16992.0932.7371
7VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia94.78241.4703.7474
8EritreaERIEastern Africa94.50175.3260.1718
9GuyanaGUYSouth America94.34484.2431.4121
10TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia94.29782.7013.0014
11EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa94.19483.8671.9382
12BhutanBTNSouthern Asia94.08285.0300.8876
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia94.00184.4871.5110
14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia93.97665.2600.7632
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia92.68932.9244.3864
16IranIRNSouthern Asia92.17586.6451.1790
17Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia91.38238.4470.1706
18AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia91.06764.2494.6831
19TajikistanTJKCentral Asia91.03875.0803.8808
20UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia91.00825.4953.4965
21BoliviaBOLSouth America90.94137.5431.5157
22NigerNERWestern Africa90.81867.8281.3534
23EthiopiaETHEastern Africa90.76748.6850.5479
24YemenYEMWestern Asia90.74337.4331.8233
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa90.57927.0662.3552

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Somalia99.4845
  2. 2Afghanistan98.1696
  3. 3Nepal98.1352
  4. 4Mali97.8596
  5. 5Madagascar95.8921

Lowest

  1. 173Monaco0.0000
  2. 172Iceland0.1012
  3. 171Estonia0.2304
  4. 170Papua New Guinea0.2550
  5. 169Montenegro0.3205

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 59.6974. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Withdrawn for households (% of total)

    HighestBrunei164.674

    LowestSomalia0.455

    Middle country: 18.835

  • Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

    HighestEstonia96.5822

    Lowest4 share it

    Middle country: 7.9084

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 106values changed, of 173 in both
  • 57 · 49rose · fell
  • 67unchanged

Rose most

  • Armenia58.2029 → 67.4733+9.2704
  • Malta48.5682 → 54.5378+5.9696
  • Niger87.4589 → 90.8186+3.3598
  • Mongolia46.3072 → 48.8835+2.5763
  • Albania48.7348 → 50.9652+2.2304

Fell most

− United Kingdom− Romania

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 2011.

  • 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) (2011). Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/water-withdrawal/2011

0633 held

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07Questions

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest farming’s share of water use in Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011?

Somalia, at 99.4845, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011 cover?

173.

Where can I download Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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