Italy: Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)

Key figures

Since 2001 it is up 0.81 percentage points from 16.13% in 2001. The World Bank has no value for 12 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2024, Italy had the 16th 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 Italy in the 2024 ranking

• Cyprus — 12th of 55: 19.59%
• Qatar — 13th of 55: 17.57%
• Albania — 14th of 55: 16.96%
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 16th of 55: 16.94%
• Mauritius — 17th of 55: 16.52%
• Portugal — 18th of 55: 15.46%

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 12 values

Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) in nearby economies

• Albania — 16.96% (2024)
• Armenia — 9.33% (2024)
• Austria — 2.65% (2024)
• Azerbaijan — 30.71% (2024)
• Belarus — 0.32% (2024)
• Bulgaria — 0.68% (2024)
• Channel Islands — 3.66% (2016)
• Croatia — 1.7% (2024)
• Cyprus — 19.59% (2024)

More environment data for Italy

• Population in largest city — 4.35 million (2025)
• Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 10.59% (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 11.51 million (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 19.53% (2025)
• Rural population — 17.86 million (2025)
• Rural population (% of total population) — 30.32% (2025)
• Urban population — 41.05 million (2025)
• Urban population (% of total population) — 69.68% (2025)
• Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 97,793 (2024)
• Capture fisheries production (metric tons)

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Questions people ask

What is Italy's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)?

16.94% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2001?

It is up 0.81 percentage points from 16.13% in 2001. The highest value was 20.63% in 2020 and the lowest 16.13% in 2001.

How does Italy rank?

16th highest of 55 economies with data for 2024.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, 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).

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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