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Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018

2018, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018 covers 171 countries on 3 measures. Somalia is highest, at 99.485; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 61.393. Against 2017, 69 values changed (37 up, 32 down), 2 countries joined, 7 left.

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Water Withdrawal by Sector · Data for 2018

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa99.4850.4550.0606
2AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia98.1700.9980.8320
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia98.1351.5540.3106
4MaliMLIWestern Africa97.8602.0630.0771
5SudanSDNNorthern Africa96.1953.5270.2784
6LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia95.9021.7762.3224
7MadagascarMDGEastern Africa95.8922.9141.1942
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia94.7821.4703.7474
9EritreaERIEastern Africa94.5025.3260.1718
10GuyanaGUYSouth America94.3454.2431.4121
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia94.2982.7013.0014
12EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa94.1953.8671.9382
13BhutanBTNSouthern Asia94.0835.0300.8876
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia94.0024.4871.5110
15PakistanPAKSouthern Asia93.9775.2600.7632
16KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia92.6892.9244.3864
17AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia92.3563.4774.1670
18UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia92.2774.2053.5171
19IranIRNSouthern Asia92.1766.6451.1790
20EthiopiaETHEastern Africa91.8367.6790.4844
21Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia91.3828.4470.1706
22SenegalSENWestern Africa91.1158.8380.0468
23ChileCHLSouth America90.8873.9855.1282
24NigerNERWestern Africa90.8667.5991.5353
25YemenYEMWestern Asia90.7437.4331.8233

02In 2018

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. 5Sudan96.195

Lowest

  1. 170Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesshared0.000
  2. 170Monacoshared0.000
  3. 169Iceland0.108
  4. 168Papua New Guinea0.255
  5. 167Estonia0.295

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 61.393. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Withdrawn for households (% of total)

    HighestBrunei164.674

    LowestSomalia0.455

    Middle country: 21.082

  • Withdrawn for industry (% of total)

    HighestEstonia95.8471

    Lowest6 share it

    Middle country: 7.5051

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −7countries joined / left
  • 69values changed, of 169 in both
  • 37 · 32rose · fell
  • 100unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Belgium+ Israel− Brazil− Iraq− North Macedonia− Oman− Portugal− Palestine− South Africa

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 2018.

  • 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.

  • 1 empty cell

    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) (2018). Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/water-withdrawal/2018

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07Questions

Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest farming’s share of water use in Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018?

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

What year does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018 cover?

171.

Where can I download Water Withdrawal by Sector, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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