DEFINITION
Water availability per capita (1961-1990 (avg.))
Units: Thousands Cubic Meters/Person
Units: This variable measures internal renewable water (average annual surface runoff and groundwater recharge generated from endogenous
precipitation)
| Rank |
Countries
|
Amount
(top to bottom)
|
| #1 |
Iceland: |
294.34 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #2 |
Gabon: |
176.37 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #3 |
Papua New Guinea: |
154.61 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #4 |
Canada: |
84.51 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #5 |
New Zealand: |
79.81 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #6 |
Liberia: |
58.85 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #7 |
Norway: |
57.71 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #8 |
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: |
53.89 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #9 |
Bolivia: |
51.39 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #10 |
Peru: |
47.55 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #11 |
Colombia: |
45.56 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #12 |
Laos: |
40.43 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #13 |
Central African Republic: |
37.41 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #14 |
Brazil: |
37.25 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #15 |
Venezuela: |
33.83 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #16 |
Panama: |
30.79 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #17 |
Ecuador: |
30.37 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #18 |
Nicaragua: |
29.15 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #19 |
Australia: |
27.81 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #20 |
Angola: |
24.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #21 |
Uruguay: |
24.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #22 |
Costa Rica: |
23.35 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #23 |
Russia: |
22.82 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #24 |
Madagascar: |
22.55 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #25 |
Sierra Leone: |
21.97 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #26 |
Malaysia: |
20.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #27 |
Burma: |
20.06 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #28 |
Chile: |
19.56 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #29 |
Guinea-Bissau: |
19.15 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #30 |
Finland: |
18.01 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #31 |
Cameroon: |
17.3 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #32 |
Mongolia: |
16.32 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #33 |
Sweden: |
15.91 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #34 |
Bhutan: |
14.08 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #35 |
Guatemala: |
14.03 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #36 |
Honduras: |
13.09 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #37 |
Ireland: |
12.47 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #38 |
Indonesia: |
10.96 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #39 |
Paraguay: |
10.77 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #40 |
Guinea: |
10.13 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #41 |
Zambia: |
10.01 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #42 |
Cambodia: |
9.92 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #43 |
Slovenia: |
8.04 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #44 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina: |
7.91 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #45 |
Argentina: |
7.65 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #46 |
Estonia: |
7.4 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #47 |
United States: |
7.09 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #48 |
Cote d'Ivoire: |
6.87 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #49 |
Austria: |
6.37 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #50 |
Latvia: |
6.31 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #51 |
Croatia: |
6.01 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #52 |
Nepal: |
5.97 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #53 |
Mozambique: |
5.81 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #54 |
Switzerland: |
5.74 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #55 |
Tajikistan: |
5.56 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #56 |
Kyrgyzstan: |
5.47 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #57 |
Lithuania: |
5.1 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #58 |
Albania: |
4.09 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #59 |
Philippines: |
3.79 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #60 |
Tanzania: |
3.64 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #61 |
Kazakhstan: |
3.63 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #62 |
Thailand: |
3.5 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #63 |
Mexico: |
3.47 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #64 |
Zimbabwe: |
3.4 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #65 |
France: |
3.26 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #66 |
Portugal: |
3.25 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #67 |
Jamaica: |
3.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #68 |
United Kingdom: |
3.1 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #69 |
Greece: |
2.96 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #70 |
Vietnam: |
2.8 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #71 |
Belarus: |
2.79 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #72 |
Togo: |
2.71 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #73 |
Japan: |
2.6 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #74 |
Turkey: |
2.59 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #75 |
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: |
2.55 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #76 |
Denmark: |
2.49 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #77 |
Spain: |
2.33 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #78 |
Nigeria: |
2.26 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #79 |
Benin: |
2.25 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #80 |
Slovakia: |
2.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #81 |
Ethiopia: |
2.17 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #82 |
Korea, North: |
2.11 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #83 |
Italy: |
2.04 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #84 |
Cuba: |
2.01 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #85 |
Bulgaria: |
2 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #86 |
Dominica: |
1.92 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #87 |
Ghana: |
1.87 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #88 |
Moldova: |
1.83 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #89 |
China: |
1.72 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #90 |
Sri Lanka: |
1.62 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #91 |
El Salvador: |
1.59 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #92 |
Trinidad and Tobago: |
1.58 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #93 |
India: |
1.56 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #94 |
Malawi: |
1.55 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #95 |
Kenya: |
1.51 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #96 |
Poland: |
1.48 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #97 |
Czech Republic: |
1.45 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #98 |
Romania: |
1.45 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #99 |
Germany: |
1.35 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #100 |
Ukraine: |
1.26 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #101 |
South Africa: |
1.25 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #102 |
Belgium: |
1.19 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #103 |
Hungary: |
1.17 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #104 |
Korea, South: |
1.16 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #105 |
Armenia: |
1.12 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #106 |
Uganda: |
1 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #107 |
Senegal: |
0.96 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #108 |
Rwanda: |
0.95 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #109 |
Haiti: |
0.93 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #110 |
Oman: |
0.93 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #111 |
Burkina Faso: |
0.86 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #112 |
Azerbaijan: |
0.79 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #113 |
Lebanon: |
0.66 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #114 |
Burundi: |
0.65 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #115 |
Netherlands: |
0.65 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #116 |
Iran: |
0.63 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #117 |
Libya: |
0.6 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #118 |
Bangladesh: |
0.6 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #119 |
Morocco: |
0.42 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #120 |
Gambia, The: |
0.4 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #121 |
Mali: |
0.4 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #122 |
Algeria: |
0.39 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #123 |
Israel: |
0.36 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #124 |
Syria: |
0.35 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #125 |
Uzbekistan: |
0.31 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #126 |
Somalia: |
0.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #127 |
Pakistan: |
0.23 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #128 |
Saudi Arabia: |
0.22 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #129 |
Tunisia: |
0.22 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #130 |
Mauritania: |
0.18 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #131 |
Jordan: |
0.07 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #132 |
Kuwait: |
-0.2 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #133 |
Egypt: |
-0.24 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #134 |
Niger: |
-0.33 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #135 |
Iraq: |
-0.45 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #136 |
Turkmenistan: |
-0.49 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #137 |
Sudan: |
-0.53 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #138 |
United Arab Emirates: |
-0.91 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #139 |
Namibia: |
-1.94 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #140 |
Chad: |
-3.28 thousand cubic metres |
|
| #141 |
Botswana: |
-7.46 thousand cubic metres |
|
| |
Weighted average: |
14.0 thousand cubic metres |
|
DEFINITION: Water availability per capita (1961-1990 (avg.))
Units: Thousands Cubic Meters/Person
Units: This variable measures internal renewable water (average annual surface runoff and groundwater recharge generated from endogenous
precipitation)