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 | Romania: | 1.45 thousand cubic metres | |
| #98 | Czech Republic: | 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 | Bangladesh: | 0.6 thousand cubic metres | |
| #118 | Libya: | 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 | Tunisia: | 0.22 thousand cubic metres | |
| #129 | Saudi Arabia: | 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)