Environment > Water > Severe water stress: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Percent of country's territory under severe water stress
Units: Percent of Land Area
Units: This data is derived from the WaterGap 2.1 gridded hydrological model developed by the Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany. The modellers derived, for each country, grid cell by grid cell estimates of whether the water consumption exceeds 40 percent of the water available in that particular grid cell. These were then converted to land area equivalents in order to calculate the percentage of the territory under severe water stress.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
=1	Israel	100	2000
=1	Trinidad and Tobago	100	2000
3	Syria	99.6	2000
4	Nepal	98.1	2000
5	Kuwait	97.7	2000
6	Azerbaijan	95.4	2000
7	Belgium	93.9	2000
8	Tajikistan	93.2	2000
9	Kyrgyzstan	93	2000
10	Turkmenistan	92.9	2000
11	Republic of Macedonia	91.6	2000
12	Tunisia	89	2000
13	Saudi Arabia	88.3	2000
14	Egypt	88.1	2000
15	Iran	87.5	2000
16	Uzbekistan	87.1	2000
17	Iraq	86.9	2000
18	Armenia	84.6	2000
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	84.08	2000
19	Libya	83.7	2000
20	Jordan	82.6	2000
21	Lebanon	82.1	2000
22	Morocco	81.5	2000
23	India	80.2	2000
24	Pakistan	76.3	2000
25	United Arab Emirates	74	2000
26	Spain	72.3	2000
27	Algeria	71	2000
28	South Africa	68.5	2000
	South and Central Asia average (profile)	67.53	2000
29	Turkey	61.7	2000
	OPEC countries average (profile)	60.93	2000
30	Kazakhstan	60.4	2000
31	Greece	58	2000
32	Portugal	54.7	2000
33	South Korea	49.8	2000
34	Oman	49.2	2000
35	Bulgaria	45.9	2000
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	45.31	2000
36	China	44.7	2000
	South Asia average (profile)	44.65	2000
37	Mexico	43.8	2000
38	Chile	41.1	2000
39	Niger	40.5	2000
40	Sri Lanka	39.5	2000
41	Netherlands	36	2000
42	United States	31.3	2000
43	Sudan	31.1	2000
44	Somalia	26.9	2000
45	Italy	26.3	2000
46	Ethiopia	24.7	2000
47	Cuba	24.6	2000
	Eurozone average (profile)	24.27	2000
48	Peru	23.6	2000
49	Argentina	23.3	2000
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	23.25	2000
50	Bangladesh	22.1	2000
	Emerging markets average (profile)	22	2000
	Cold countries average (profile)	21.62	2000
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	21.15	2000
51	United Kingdom	21	2000
	Former French colonies average (profile)	20.78	2000
	NATO countries average (profile)	20.05	2000
	failed states average (profile)	19.81	2000
52	Albania	19.5	2000
53	France	19.4	2000
=54	Nigeria	17.8	2000
=54	Namibia	17.8	2000
	European Union average (profile)	17.66	2000
56	Ukraine	17	2000
57	Zimbabwe	16.2	2000
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	15.64	2000
58	Botswana	14.2	2000
59	Bolivia	14	2000
60	Mozambique	13.6	2000
61	Philippines	10.4	2000
	Former Spanish colonies average (profile)	10.32	2000
62	Japan	9.5	2000
63	Mongolia	8.1	2000
64	Australia	8	2000
65	Denmark	7.7	2000
66	Mauritania	6.9	2000
67	Moldova	6.3	2000
68	Senegal	5	2000
69	Dominica	4.5	2000
70	Russia	3.8	2000
=71	Vietnam	2.8	2000
=71	North Korea	2.8	2000
73	Mali	2.7	2000
74	Venezuela	2.4	2000
75	Chad	2.3	2000
76	Finland	2.1	2000
=77	Madagascar	1.7	2000
=77	Romania	1.7	2000
79	Malaysia	1.6	2000
80	Indonesia	1.4	2000
81	Ecuador	1.2	2000
=82	Kenya	1.1	2000
=82	Germany	1.1	2000
84	Colombia	1	2000
85	Canada	0.9	2000
=86	Thailand	0.6	2000
=86	Sweden	0.6	2000
=88	Norway	0.4	2000
=88	Lithuania	0.4	2000
=90	Estonia	0.3	2000
=90	Brazil	0.3	2000
=90	Nicaragua	0.3	2000
=93	Cameroon	0.0	2000
=93	Burkina Faso	0.0	2000
=93	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0	2000
=93	Liberia	0.0	2000
=93	Tanzania	0.0	2000
=93	Slovakia	0.0	2000
=93	Malawi	0.0	2000
=93	Central African Republic	0.0	2000
=93	Guinea	0.0	2000
=93	Panama	0.0	2000
=93	Costa Rica	0.0	2000
=93	Ireland	0.0	2000
=93	El Salvador	0.0	2000
=93	Rwanda	0.0	2000
=93	Sierra Leone	0.0	2000
=93	Papua New Guinea	0.0	2000
=93	Hungary	0.0	2000
=93	Paraguay	0.0	2000
=93	Cambodia	0.0	2000
=93	Ghana	0.0	2000
=93	Slovenia	0.0	2000
=93	Guatemala	0.0	2000
=93	Gabon	0.0	2000
=93	New Zealand	0.0	2000
=93	Jamaica	0.0	2000
=93	Czech Republic	0.0	2000
=93	Laos	0.0	2000
=93	Cote d'Ivoire	0.0	2000
=93	Benin	0.0	2000
=93	Togo	0.0	2000
=93	Angola	0.0	2000
=93	Austria	0.0	2000
=93	Latvia	0.0	2000
=93	Uganda	0.0	2000
=93	Belarus	0.0	2000
=93	Haiti	0.0	2000
=93	Croatia	0.0	2000
=93	Guinea-Bissau	0.0	2000
=93	Switzerland	0.0	2000
=93	Uruguay	0.0	2000
=93	Burundi	0.0	2000
=93	Bhutan	0.0	2000
=93	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.0	2000
=93	Iceland	0.0	2000
=93	Zambia	0.0	2000
=93	Poland	0.0	2000
=93	Burma	0.0	2000
=93	Honduras	0.0	2000

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