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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, United States
24,692.58thousand hectares
period 2024
Geography
United States (USA)
Observation date
2024
Unit
thousand hectares
Frequency
annual
Ingested
2026-09-07 20:00 UTC
1-year change+0.0008contextual+0.00%2023 to 2024from 24,692.58 to 24,692.58 thousand hectares
10-year trend-0.78% per yearcontextual-7.55%2014 to 2024compound annual growth rate; total -2,015.42 thousand hectares, from 26,708 to 24,692.58 thousand hectares
Historical series

Land equipped for irrigation, United States

Observed
15,00017,50020,00022,50025,00027,50019611970198019902000201020202024THOUSAND HECTARES24,692.58
64 observations, 1961 to 2024latest point emphasised
Data table (64 rows)
Land equipped for irrigation, United States: 64 observations from 1961 to 2024, values from 15,544.2 to 27,070 thousand hectares. Latest 24,692.58 thousand hectares in 2024. Full data table below.
PeriodValue (thousand hectares)Source revisionIngested at
202424,692.582026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
202324,692.57922026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
202224,693.4552026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
202126,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
202026,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201926,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201826,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201726,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201626,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201526,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201426,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201326,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201226,7082026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201126,831.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
201026,955.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200926,942.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200826,929.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200726,916.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200615,544.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200518,392.42026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200421,240.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200324,088.82026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200226,9372026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200126,963.62026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
200026,990.22026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199927,0152026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199827,0402026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199727,0702026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199627,0602026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199527,0512026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199427,0402026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199327,0252026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199227,0122026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199126,9402026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
199026,8702026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198926,8002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198826,7352026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198726,6672026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198626,7102026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198526,7552026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198426,8002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198326,8402026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198226,8882026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198126,0002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
198025,0002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197924,5002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197824,3002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197723,3002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197623,0002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197522,8002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197422,6002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197322,3002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197222,1002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197121,9002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
197021,7002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196921,5002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196821,3002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196721,0002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196620,7502026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196520,6002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196420,3002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196319,9002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196219,5002026-07-172026-09-07 20:00 UTC
196119,0002026-07-172026-09-07 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
2026-10-02(source revision label as published by the provider)
Last ingestion
last successful runfresh
Last run
success2026-10-19 00:15 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
2026-07-1724,692.582026-09-07 20:00 UTCcurrent
No superseded rows for this geography: every period has been ingested once.