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Land equipped for irrigation

Observed

Area equipped to provide water to crops, in thousand hectares, from FAOSTAT land use.

Ingestedfrom Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsfreshJSON export
Current value, World
354,701.15thousand hectares
period 2024
Geography
World (WLD)
Observation date
2024
Unit
thousand hectares
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+557.14contextual+0.16%2023 to 2024from 354,144.01 to 354,701.15 thousand hectares
10-year trend+0.57% per yearcontextual+5.86%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total +19,638.35 thousand hectares, from 335,062.8 to 354,701.15 thousand hectares
Historical series

Land equipped for irrigation, World

Observed
150,000200,000250,000300,000350,000400,00019611970198019902000201020202024THOUSAND HECTARES354,701.15
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Land equipped for irrigation, World: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 161,148 to 354,971.59 thousand hectares. Latest 354,701.15 thousand hectares in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (thousand hectares)Source revisionIngested at
2024354,701.152026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2023354,144.012026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2022354,108.682026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2021354,971.592026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2020353,242.662026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2019348,818.142026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2018343,816.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2017341,816.622026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2016339,117.422026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2015337,504.622026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2014335,062.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2013332,811.042026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2012329,528.122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2011325,943.472026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2010323,201.732026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2009319,641.372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2008316,747.022026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2007314,820.562026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2006301,022.632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2005301,657.622026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2004302,155.482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2003302,035.122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2002299,309.012026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2001293,940.332026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
2000289,076.012026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1999285,628.422026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1998282,752.192026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1997279,837.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1996276,986.412026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1995272,746.282026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1994269,157.442026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1993266,201.122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1992263,893.852026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1991260,751.732026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1990258,045.32026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1989254,261.432026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1988251,075.632026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1987248,218.132026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1986245,210.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1985241,487.92026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1984237,730.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1983234,264.852026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1982231,026.92026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1981226,729.52026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1980221,210.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1979217,753.52026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1978214,4162026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1977210,096.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1976206,634.72026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1975202,511.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1974199,1062026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1973196,1332026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1972191,364.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1971187,7542026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1970184,3022026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1969181,4542026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1968178,7752026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1967175,205.72026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1966172,6682026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1965169,7042026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1964167,7472026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1963165,6382026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1962163,6822026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1961161,1482026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
191 geographies have observations for this metric
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service), series RL:6690:5110
Definition

What this measures

Land area equipped for irrigation is the area provided with infrastructure to supply water to crops, including areas equipped for full or partial control irrigation, equipped lowland areas and areas equipped for spate irrigation, whether or not they are actually irrigated in a given year. FAOSTAT domain RL, item Land area equipped for irrigation (6690), element Area (5110), unit 1000 ha, stored unconverted. Annual. Reported where countries provide it; coverage is thinner than for agricultural land.

Direction
contextual, not scored
Geography level
country
Slug
irrigated-land-area
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Provenance and methodologysource, series, ingestion, revisions
Classification
Observedpublished by the cited source, ingested without transformation
Source organization
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAOSTAT (bulk download service)
Series ID
RL:6690:5110last fetch: ok
Source links
License and attribution
Approved with attribution
FAO. 2026. FAOSTAT: [Domain name]. Accessed on [DD Month YYYY]. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data. Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Data used with attribution and not for or in conjunction with the promotion of a commercial enterprise, product or service.
Terms of use
Last source update
2026-07-17(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-09-07 20:16 UTC
Parser version
faostat-bulk/1.0.0
Methodology version
1.0
Quality and confidence
FAOSTAT revises history in place; each revision is stored as a new row labelled with the domain's DateUpdate. Aggregates other than World and former countries (USSR, Sudan (former), ...) are not stored. Stored in the source unit of thousand hectares.
Ingestion rejects values outside 0 to 1,000,000 thousand hectares.
64 periods with values for this geography, 1961 to 2024.
Revisions
Values reported for the latest period (2024) by each source revision ingested. Earlier rows are never deleted; the newest ingested row is shown as current.
Source revisionValue (thousand hectares)Ingested atStatus
2026-07-17354,701.152026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.