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Atlas (Beta)Agricultural Water Consumption
WorldAgricultureAgricultural water withdrawal as a percentage of total renewable water resources by country
A map highlights global agricultural water consumption. Dark blue regions show a rate higher than 99% in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, and Libya. Medium blue indicates a rate of 25% to 99% in south and southwestern Asian and north Africa. Light blue regions indicate a rate of 1% to 24% including the United States, parts of western Europe, China and Australia. The lightest blue indicates less than 1% in parts of Europe, South America, and Central and Southwestern Africa.
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Class | Rank | Percent | Class | Rank | Farmers per square kilometer | Class | Rank | Percent of electricity generation | Class | Rank | People | Value | Commercial gardening | Dairy | Grain | Intensive subsistence, wet rice dominant | Intensive subsistence, wet rice not dominant | Little or no agriculture | Livestock Ranching | Mediterranean | Mixed crop and livestock | Pastoral nomadism | Plantation | Shifting cultivation | |
2.71% | 25.1% | 8.01% | 4.80% | 3.15% | |||||||||||||||||||||
14.9% | 92.5% | 15.5% | 28.7% | 96.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||
3.54% | 9.38% | 1.03% | 9.81% | 66.2% | 12.9% | 43.8% | |||||||||||||||||||
17.4% | 17.8% | 4.09% | 16.3% | 54.9% | 44.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||
1.72% | 4.22% | 2.10% | 65.0% | 7.72% | 74.7% | 1.08% | |||||||||||||||||||
1.03% | 24.9% | 47.2% | 17.6% | 47.9% | 26.5% | 47.9% | 2.93% | 6.57% | |||||||||||||||||
6.42% | 9.10% | 9.93% | 6.18% | 27.6% | 14.8% | 2.39% | 3.76% | 18.7% | |||||||||||||||||
1.57% | 98.0% | 57.2% | 58.2% | 7.51% | 11.3% | ||||||||||||||||||||
1.23% | 1.41% | 1.82% | 7.94% | 12.8% | 4.70% | 1.32% | 22.5% | 1.32% | |||||||||||||||||
19.4% | 10.5% | 8.26% | 13.3% | 2.97% | 1.06% | ||||||||||||||||||||
11.4% | 28.3% | 2.01% | 9.82% | 15.2% | |||||||||||||||||||||
1.78% | 31.4% | 14.6% | 12.2% | 53.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||
18.6% | 17.4% | 8.03% | 7.51% | 19.5% | 13.3% | 5.87% | 36.9% | 4.32% | 53.4% |