World Development Indicators provides a dataset on the percentage of total agricultural land that is irrigated. The data covers multiple countries and years, tracking the extent of agricultural areas purposely provided with water, including irrigation by controlled flooding. It is part of the World Bank's collection of development indicators.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in irrigation adoption over time using the year and country fields.
- Compare water resource intensity across different countries using the irrigated land percentage metric.
- Model the relationship between irrigation infrastructure and agricultural productivity indicators.
- Assess regional water stress by correlating irrigation data with climate datasets.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative World Development Indicators repository.
- Provides a standardized metric (percentage) for cross-country comparison.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Data may have gaps or inconsistencies due to varying national reporting standards.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators, The World Bank
- Collection Method
- Compiled from national and international statistical sources.
- Geography
- Global, country-level