Agriculture > Livestock > Annual freshwater withdrawals, total > Billion cubic meters per million: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters). Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production and for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data correspond to the most recent year available for 1987-2002. Figures expressed per million population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Turkmenistan	5.47	2011
2	Iraq	2.08	2011
3	Guyana	2.07	2011
4	Uzbekistan	1.91	2011
5	Kyrgyzstan	1.83	2011
6	United States	1.54	2011
7	Tajikistan	1.47	2011
8	Estonia	1.34	2011
9	Canada	1.33	2011
10	Azerbaijan	1.33	2011
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	1.28	2011
11	Kazakhstan	1.28	2011
12	Suriname	1.26	2011
13	Iran	1.24	2011
	South and Central Asia average (profile)	1.23	2011
14	Uruguay	1.08	2011
15	New Zealand	1.08	2011
16	Pakistan	1.04	2011
17	Sudan	1.02	2011
18	Australia	1.01	2011
19	Ecuador	1	2011
20	East Timor	0.997	2011
21	Armenia	0.954	2011
22	Vietnam	0.934	2011
23	Thailand	0.861	2011
24	Egypt	0.86	2011
25	Swaziland	0.86	2011
26	Philippines	0.858	2011
27	Saudi Arabia	0.853	2011
28	Ukraine	0.842	2011
29	Greece	0.838	2011
30	Bulgaria	0.833	2011
31	Portugal	0.802	2011
32	Argentina	0.8	2011
33	Lithuania	0.785	2011
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	0.772	2011
34	Syria	0.763	2011
35	Italy	0.748	2011
36	Libya	0.709	2011
37	Japan	0.704	2011
38	Spain	0.703	2011
39	Afghanistan	0.697	2011
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	0.689	2011
40	Madagascar	0.677	2011
41	Cuba	0.67	2011
42	Mexico	0.669	2011
	Muslim countries average (profile)	0.656	2011
43	Chile	0.655	2011
44	Laos	0.653	2011
45	Peru	0.653	2011
46	Netherlands	0.636	2011
47	Burma	0.635	2011
48	India	0.623	2011
49	Sri Lanka	0.621	2011
	South Asia average (profile)	0.612	2011
50	Norway	0.593	2011
	Emerging markets average (profile)	0.593	2011
	Landlocked countries average (profile)	0.591	2011
	OPEC countries average (profile)	0.583	2011
51	Albania	0.583	2011
	High income OECD countries average (profile)	0.572	2011
52	Serbia	0.568	2011
	Religious countries average (profile)	0.567	2011
53	Costa Rica	0.566	2011
54	Mauritius	0.564	2011
55	Belgium	0.563	2011
56	Hungary	0.561	2011
	Cold countries average (profile)	0.56	2011
57	Turkey	0.549	2011
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	0.548	2011
58	Moldova	0.538	2011
	NATO countries average (profile)	0.534	2011
59	Iceland	0.517	2011
60	South Korea	0.512	2011
	Eastern Europe average (profile)	0.495	2011
61	Republic of Macedonia	0.489	2011
62	France	0.484	2011
	Eurozone average (profile)	0.479	2011
	Europe average (profile)	0.476	2011
63	Belize	0.474	2011
64	European Union	0.469	2011
65	Indonesia	0.465	2011
66	Bhutan	0.463	2011
67	Russia	0.463	2011
68	Malaysia	0.459	2011
69	Slovenia	0.459	2011
70	Belarus	0.458	2011
71	Mali	0.454	2011
	Former Spanish colonies average (profile)	0.454	2011
72	United Arab Emirates	0.448	2011
	European Union average (profile)	0.441	2011
	Latin America and Caribbean average (profile)	0.439	2011
73	Oman	0.437	2011
	Potential Future EU Members average (profile)	0.436	2011
74	Austria	0.434	2011
75	Mauritania	0.432	2011
	Heavily indebted countries average (profile)	0.419	2011
	failed states average (profile)	0.413	2011
76	China	0.412	2011
77	Georgia	0.404	2011
	Catholic countries average (profile)	0.398	2011
	Former British colonies average (profile)	0.398	2011
78	Germany	0.395	2011
79	Morocco	0.393	2011
80	Nepal	0.36	2011
	Christian countries average (profile)	0.357	2011
81	North Korea	0.352	2011
82	Dominican Republic	0.343	2011
83	Somalia	0.333	2011
84	Switzerland	0.33	2011
85	Romania	0.322	2011
86	Zimbabwe	0.315	2011
87	Poland	0.31	2011
88	Venezuela	0.307	2011
89	Finland	0.303	2011
90	Lebanon	0.299	2011
91	Brazil	0.295	2011
92	Kuwait	0.292	2011
93	Sweden	0.277	2011
94	Bahrain	0.276	2011
95	Puerto Rico	0.269	2011
96	Colombia	0.269	2011
97	Tunisia	0.267	2011
98	Montenegro	0.259	2011
99	Israel	0.252	2011
100	South Africa	0.247	2011
	Former French colonies average (profile)	0.237	2011
101	Bangladesh	0.235	2011
102	Dominica	0.232	2011
103	Qatar	0.232	2011
104	Brunei	0.226	2011
105	El Salvador	0.22	2011
106	Nicaragua	0.218	2011
107	Barbados	0.216	2011
108	Jamaica	0.216	2011
109	United Kingdom	0.207	2011
110	Latvia	0.201	2011
111	Guatemala	0.199	2011
112	Bolivia	0.196	2011
113	Trinidad and Tobago	0.174	2011
114	Ireland	0.173	2011
115	Senegal	0.167	2011
116	Cyprus	0.165	2011
117	Algeria	0.163	2011
118	Czech Republic	0.162	2011
119	Seychelles	0.157	2011
120	Mongolia	0.155	2011
121	Honduras	0.154	2011
122	Yemen	0.153	2011
123	Jordan	0.152	2011
	Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile)	0.152	2011
124	Cambodia	0.15	2011
125	Croatia	0.147	2011
126	Guinea	0.145	2011
127	Niger	0.143	2011
128	Namibia	0.135	2011
129	Monaco	0.134	2011
130	Malta	0.129	2011
131	Zambia	0.128	2011
132	Slovakia	0.127	2011
133	Panama	0.121	2011
134	Haiti	0.12	2011
135	Denmark	0.118	2011
136	Luxembourg	0.116	2011
137	Tanzania	0.112	2011
138	Guinea-Bissau	0.108	2011
139	Eritrea	0.0981	2011
140	Botswana	0.0976	2011
141	Grenada	0.0952	2011
142	Fiji	0.0941	2011
143	Saint Lucia	0.0926	2011
144	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0.0914	2011
145	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.0883	2011
146	Sierra Leone	0.0841	2011
147	Gabon	0.0816	2011
148	Paraguay	0.0745	2011
149	Cote d'Ivoire	0.0727	2011
150	Kenya	0.0651	2011
151	Nigeria	0.0628	2011
152	Malawi	0.0627	2011
153	Ethiopia	0.0622	2011
154	Burkina Faso	0.0616	2011
155	Antigua and Barbuda	0.0567	2011
156	Papua New Guinea	0.0559	2011
157	Cameroon	0.0453	2011
158	Cape Verde	0.0448	2011
159	Liberia	0.0438	2011
160	The Gambia	0.0411	2011
161	Ghana	0.0396	2011
162	Sao Tome and Principe	0.0382	2011
163	Singapore	0.0367	2011
164	Angola	0.0317	2011
165	Chad	0.0304	2011
166	Mozambique	0.0303	2011
167	Burundi	0.0302	2011
168	Togo	0.0261	2011
169	Lesotho	0.0246	2011
170	Equatorial Guinea	0.0243	2011
171	Djibouti	0.0224	2011
172	Maldives	0.0178	2011
173	Central African Republic	0.0151	2011
174	Comoros	0.0143	2011
175	Rwanda	0.0135	2011
176	Benin	0.0133	2011
177	Republic of the Congo	0.0109	2011
178	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.00973	2011
179	Uganda	0.00903	2011

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