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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)

SOURCE: Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org

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