Saudi Arabia: Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)

Key figures

Over five years it is down 0.06 percentage points from 0.49% in 2019. Since 1992 it is down 0.87 percentage points from 1.3% in 1992. The World Bank has no value for 19 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2017 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.03 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 61% of the movement over 8 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2024, Saudi Arabia had the 53rd 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 Saudi Arabia in the 2024 ranking

• Slovenia — 49th of 55: 0.67%
• Niger — 50th of 55: 0.62%
• Australia — 51st of 55: 0.54%
• Belarus — 53rd of 55: 0.32%
• Ukraine — 54th of 55: 0.25%
• Mongolia — 55th of 55: 0.06%

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 14 values

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)
• Morocco — 5.96% (2019)
• Oman — 7.24% (2024)
• Pakistan — 53.7% (2024)

More environment data for Saudi Arabia

• Population in largest city — 7.95 million (2025)
• Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 25.42% (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 18.19 million (2025)
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 49.21% (2025)
• Rural population — 5.69 million (2025)
• Rural population (% of total population) — 15.39% (2025)
• Urban population — 31.28 million (2025)
• Urban population (% of total population) — 84.61% (2025)
• Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 161,883 (2024)

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Questions people ask

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

0.43% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1992?

It is down 0.87 percentage points from 1.3% in 1992. The highest value was 1.3% in 1992 and the lowest 0.41% in 2021.

How does Saudi Arabia rank?

53rd 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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