Morocco's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) was 5.96% in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 1.39 percentage points from 4.57% in 2009.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5.96% | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | 5.18% | 2014 |
| Ten years earlier | 4.57% | 2009 |
| Highest | 5.96% | 2019 |
| Lowest | 3.88% | 2006 |
| Average since 2010 | 5.21% | 2010–2019 |
| First recorded | 4.3% | 2004 |
What the numbers say
In 2019, Morocco's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) rose 0.37 percentage points on 2018 (from 5.59% to 5.96%).
Across the 14 yearly changes before that (2005 to 2018), the average change was +0.09 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.19 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.37 percentage points in 2019 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.42 percentage points in 2006. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.16 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 97% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 6.3% for 2022. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2017 to 2019 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.12%, against 0.33% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
Closest to Morocco in the 2019 ranking
- Algeria — 2nd of 2: 3.34%
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 16 values
| Year | Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 5.96 |
| 2018 | 5.59 |
| 2017 | 5.71 |
| 2016 | 5.42 |
| 2015 | 5.38 |
| 2014 | 5.18 |
| 2013 | 4.96 |
| 2012 | 4.75 |
| 2011 | 4.61 |
| 2010 | 4.55 |
| 2009 |
Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 5.94% (2024)
- Algeria — 3.34% (2019)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 16.94% (2024)
- Israel — 34.82% (2024)
- Jordan — 8.88% (2024)
- Malta — 35.01% (2024)
- Oman — 7.24% (2024)
- Pakistan — 53.7% (2024)
- Qatar — 17.57% (2024)
More environment data for Morocco
- Population in largest city — 4.01 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 16.54% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 8.75 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 22.77% (2025)
- Rural population — 14.17 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 36.87% (2025)
- Urban population — 24.26 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 63.13% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 5,171 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
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Questions people ask
- What is Morocco's agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)?
- 5.96% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2004?
- It is up 1.66 percentage points from 4.3% in 2004. The highest value was 5.96% in 2019 and the lowest 3.88% in 2006.
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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