Israel's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) was 34.82% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 3.66 percentage points from 38.48% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 34.82% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 33.6% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 38.48% | 2014 |
| Highest | 55.43% | 2016 |
| Lowest | 28.38% | 2009 |
| Average since 2015 | 38.26% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 31.55% | 2001 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Israel's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) fell 0.78 percentage points on 2023 (from 35.61% to 34.82%).
Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.97 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 16.7 percentage points in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 18.23 percentage points in 2017. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 22% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Israel had the 6th highest value of the 55 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
Closest to Israel in the 2024 ranking
- Pakistan — 2nd of 55: 53.7%
- India — 3rd of 55: 46.24%
- Malta — 4th of 55: 35.01%
- Azerbaijan — 6th of 55: 30.71%
- United Arab Emirates — 7th of 55: 23.63%
- Greece — 8th of 55: 23.45%
What this measures
Agricultural irrigated land refers to agricultural areas purposely provided with water, including land irrigated by controlled flooding.
Limitations: The data are collected by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) from official national sources through annual questionnaires and are supplemented with information from official secondary data sources. The secondary sources cover official country data from websites of national ministries, national publications and related country data reported by various international organizations.. The FAO tries to impose standard definitions and reporting methods, but complete consistency across countries and over time is not possible. Thus, data on agricultural land in different climates may not be comparable.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 18 values
| Year | Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 34.82 |
| 2023 | 35.61 |
| 2022 | 36.05 |
| 2021 | 37.24 |
| 2020 | 39.85 |
| 2019 | 33.6 |
| 2018 | 34.07 |
| 2017 | 37.2 |
| 2016 | 55.43 |
| 2015 | 38.73 |
| 2014 |
Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 5.94% (2024)
- Algeria — 3.34% (2019)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 16.94% (2024)
- Jordan — 8.88% (2024)
- Malta — 35.01% (2024)
- Morocco — 5.96% (2019)
- Oman — 7.24% (2024)
- Pakistan — 53.7% (2024)
- Qatar — 17.57% (2024)
More environment data for Israel
- Population in largest city — 4.57 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 49.28% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 5.77 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 56.99% (2025)
- Rural population — 852,511 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 8.42% (2025)
- Urban population — 9.27 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 91.58% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 14,850 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Israel's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)?
- 34.82% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2001?
- It is up 3.27 percentage points from 31.55% in 2001. The highest value was 55.43% in 2016 and the lowest 28.38% in 2009.
- How does Israel rank?
- 6th highest of 55 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) unusual for Israel?
- In 2024, Israel's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) fell 0.78 percentage points on 2023 (from 35.61% to 34.82%). Across the 13 yearly changes before that (2002 to 2023), the average change was +0.13 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.97 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator AG.LND.IRIG.AG.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: FAO electronic files and web site, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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