Water severe water stress (most recent) by country

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.

Environment Statistics > Water > Severe water stress (most recent) by country

Rank

Countries

Amount

= 1

Israel:

100

= 1

Trinidad and Tobago:

100

# 3

Syria:

99.6

# 4

Nepal:

98.1

# 5

Kuwait:

97.7

# 6

Azerbaijan:

95.4

# 7

Belgium:

93.9

# 8

Tajikistan:

93.2

# 9

Kyrgyzstan:

# 10

Turkmenistan:

92.9

# 11

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

91.6

# 12

Tunisia:

# 13

Saudi Arabia:

88.3

# 14

Egypt:

88.1

# 15

Iran:

87.5

# 16

Uzbekistan:

87.1

# 17

Iraq:

86.9

# 18

Armenia:

84.6

# 19

Libya:

83.7

# 20

Jordan:

82.6

# 21

Lebanon:

82.1

# 22

Morocco:

81.5

# 23

India:

80.2

# 24

Pakistan:

76.3

# 25

United Arab Emirates:

# 26

Spain:

72.3

# 27

Algeria:

# 28

South Africa:

68.5

# 29

Turkey:

61.7

# 30

Kazakhstan:

60.4

# 31

Greece:

# 32

Portugal:

54.7

# 33

Korea, South:

49.8

# 34

Oman:

49.2

# 35

Bulgaria:

45.9

# 36

China:

44.7

# 37

Mexico:

43.8

# 38

Chile:

41.1

# 39

Niger:

40.5

# 40

Sri Lanka:

39.5

# 41

Netherlands:

# 42

United States:

31.3

# 43

Sudan:

31.1

# 44

Somalia:

26.9

# 45

Italy:

26.3

# 46

Ethiopia:

24.7

# 47

Cuba:

24.6

# 48

Peru:

23.6

# 49

Argentina:

23.3

# 50

Bangladesh:

22.1

# 51

United Kingdom:

# 52

Albania:

19.5

# 53

France:

19.4

= 54

Nigeria:

17.8

= 54

Namibia:

17.8

# 56

Ukraine:

# 57

Zimbabwe:

16.2

# 58

Botswana:

14.2

# 59

Bolivia:

# 60

Mozambique:

13.6

# 61

Philippines:

10.4

# 62

Japan:

9.5

# 63

Mongolia:

8.1

# 64

Australia:

# 65

Denmark:

7.7

# 66

Mauritania:

6.9

# 67

Moldova:

6.3

# 68

Senegal:

# 69

Dominica:

4.5

# 70

Russia:

3.8

= 71

Korea, North:

2.8

= 71

Vietnam:

2.8

# 73

Mali:

2.7

# 74

Venezuela:

2.4

# 75

Chad:

2.3

# 76

Finland:

2.1

= 77

Madagascar:

1.7

= 77

Romania:

1.7

# 79

Malaysia:

1.6

# 80

Indonesia:

1.4

# 81

Ecuador:

1.2

= 82

Germany:

1.1

= 82

Kenya:

1.1

# 84

Colombia:

# 85

Canada:

0.9

= 86

Thailand:

0.6

= 86

Sweden:

0.6

= 88

Lithuania:

0.4

= 88

Norway:

0.4

= 90

Brazil:

0.3

= 90

Estonia:

0.3

= 90

Nicaragua:

0.3

= 93

El Salvador:

= 93

Iceland:

= 93

Jamaica:

= 93

Guatemala:

= 93

Latvia:

= 93

Croatia:

= 93

Slovakia:

= 93

Gabon:

= 93

New Zealand:

= 93

Haiti:

= 93

Poland:

= 93

Uruguay:

= 93

Papua New Guinea:

= 93

Ireland:

= 93

Rwanda:

= 93

Czech Republic:

= 93

Sierra Leone:

= 93

Ghana:

= 93

Togo:

= 93

Guinea:

= 93

Uganda:

= 93

Honduras:

= 93

Angola:

= 93

Hungary:

= 93

Austria:

= 93

Cote d'Ivoire:

= 93

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

= 93

Laos:

= 93

Burma:

= 93

Liberia:

= 93

Benin:

= 93

Malawi:

= 93

Belarus:

= 93

Paraguay:

= 93

Bhutan:

= 93

Panama:

= 93

Burundi:

= 93

Guinea-Bissau:

= 93

Cambodia:

= 93

Slovenia:

= 93

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

= 93

Switzerland:

= 93

Cameroon:

= 93

Tanzania:

= 93

Costa Rica:

= 93

Burkina Faso:

= 93

Central African Republic:

= 93

Zambia:

Weighted average:

25.5

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.

SOURCE: Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 via ciesin.org via NationMaster

Environment Statistics > Water > Severe water stress (most recent) by country

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