The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Irrigation water application rates are calculated as the quantities of irrigated freshwater withdrawals divided by the irrigated area (Figure 8.2). Data for 1990-92 average equal to the year 1997 for Australia, the 1990-91 average for Denmark, the year 1990 for France, Japan, Korea, Portugal and United States, the 1990-92 average for Greece, the 1994-95 average for Mexico, and the year 1991 for Spain. This was in contrast to the 1990s when agriculture water withdrawals were increasing.