Dataset
Agricultural water withdrawals
owid.agricultural-water-withdrawals
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About
Water withdrawn each year for irrigation, livestock, and aquaculture.
Cite as: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – AQUASTAT (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Agricultural water withdrawal” [dataset]. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “AQUASTAT” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1965–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-08-07
- Units
- cubic meters
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/agricultural-water-withdrawals
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| agricultural_water_withdrawal | number | Agricultural water withdrawal (cubic meters) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |