List of countries by total renewable water resources

This is a list of countries by total renewable water resources mostly based on The World Factbook. This entry provides the long-term average water availability for a country in cubic kilometers from precipitation, groundwater recharge, and surface inflows from surrounding countries. Fresh and unpolluted water accounts for 0.003% of total water available globally.

Water resources

Main articles: Water distribution on Earth and Water resources

Out of all the water on Earth, saline water in oceans, seas and saline groundwater make up about 97% of it. Only 2.5–2.75% is fresh water, including 1.75–2% frozen in glaciers, ice and snow, 0.5–0.75% as fresh groundwater and soil moisture, and less than 0.01% of it as surface water in lakes, swamps and rivers. Freshwater lakes contain about 87% of this fresh surface water, including 29% in the African Great Lakes, 22% in Lake Baikal in Russia, 21% in the North American Great Lakes, and 14% in other lakes. Swamps have most of the balance with only a small amount in rivers, most notably the Amazon River. The atmosphere contains 0.04% water. In areas with no fresh water on the ground surface, fresh water derived from precipitation may, because of its lower density, overlie saline ground water in lenses or layers. Most of the world's fresh water is frozen in ice sheets. Many areas suffer from lack of distribution of fresh water, such as deserts.

Total Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources

According to the Index Mundi’s data, Greenland ranked number 1 and Iceland number 2 in renewable internal freshwater resources per capita with 10,662,190.00 cubic meters and 519,264.70 cubic meters, respectively. Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita are calculated using the World Bank's population estimates.

SN	Country	Total renewable water resources (km³)	Date of Information
1	Brazil	8,233	2011
2	Russia	4,067	2011
3	United States	3,069	2011
4	Canada	2,902	2014
5	China	2,840	2011
6	Colombia	2,132	2011
—	European Union	2,057	2011
7	Indonesia	2,019	2011
8	Peru	1,913	2011
9	India	1,911	2011
10	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1,283	2011
11	Venezuela	1,233	2011
12	Bangladesh	1,227	2011
13	Myanmar	1,168	2011
14	Chile	922	2011
15	Nigeria	950	2011
16	Vietnam	884.1	2011
17	Congo, Republic of the	832	2011
18	Argentina	814	2011
19	Papua New Guinea	801	2011
20	Nepal	622.5	2011
21	Bolivia	580	2011
22	Australia	492	2011
23	Philippines	479	2011
24	Cambodia	476.1	2011
25	Thailand	457.2	2011
26	Mexico	438.6	2011
27	Japan	430	2011
28	Norway	424.4	2011
29	Ecuador	382	2011
30	Paraguay	337	2011
31	Madagascar	336	2011
32	New Zealand	333.5	2011
33	Laos	327	2011
34	Cameroon	285.5	2011
35	Pakistan	246.8	2011
36	Guyana	241	2011
37	Guinea	232	2011
38	Mozambique	226	2011
39	Romania	217.1	2011
40	Liberia	211.9	2011
41	Turkey	211.6	2011
42	France	211	2011
44	Nicaragua	196.6	2011
45	Italy	191.3	2011
46	Sweden	174	2011
47	Iceland	170	2011
48	Gabon	164	2011
49	Serbia	162.2	2011*
50	Sierra Leone	160	2011
51	Germany	154	2011
52	Angola	148	2011
53	Panama	148	2011
54	United Kingdom	147	2011
55	Central African Republic	144.4	2011
56	Ukraine	139.6	2011
57	Ethiopia	139	2011
58	Iran	137	2011
59	Uruguay	122	2011
60	Suriname	122	2011
61	Costa Rica	112.4	2011
62	Spain	111.5	2011
63	Guatemala	111.3	2011
64	Finland	110	2011
65	Zambia	107.5	2011
66	Turkmenistan	105.5	2011
67	Croatia	105.2	2011
68	Hungary	104	2011
69	Mali	100	2011
70	Tanzania	96.27	2011
71	Honduras	95.93	2011
72	Netherlands	91	2011
73	Iraq	89.86	2011
74	Cote d'Ivoire	81.14	2011
75	Austria	78	2011
76	Azerbaijan	77.7	2011
77	Korea, North	77.15	2011
78	Greece	74.25	2011
79	Portugal	69.7	2011
80	Korea, South	68.7	2011
81	Kazakhstan	66	2011
82	Algeria	65.33	2011
83	Sudan	64.5	2011
84	Poland	63.33	2011
85	Georgia	61.6	2011
86	Belarus	58	2011
87	Egypt	57.3	2011
88	Switzerland	53.5	2011
89	Ghana	53.2	2011
90	Sri Lanka	52.8	2011
91	Ireland	52	2011
92	South Africa	51.4	2011
93	Slovakia	50.1	2011
94	Uzbekistan	48.87	2011
95	Solomon Islands	44.7	2011
96	Albania	43	2011
97	Chad	41.7	2011
98	Senegal	38.8	2011
99	Cuba	38.12	2011
100	Bosnia and Herzegovina	37.5	2011
101	Latvia	35.45	2011
102	Mongolia	34.8	2011
103	Bhutan	34.68	2011
104	Niger	33.65	2011
105	Slovenia	31.87	2011
106	Guinea-Bissau	31	2011
107	Morocco	30.7	2011
108	Kenya	29	2011
109	Fiji	28.55	2011
110	Benin	26.39	2011
111	Equatorial Guinea	26	2011
112	El Salvador	25.23	2011
113	Lithuania	24.9	2011
114	Afghanistan	24.77	2011
115	Kyrgyzstan	23.62	2011
116	Tajikistan	21.91	2011
117	Bulgaria	21.3	2011
118	Dominican Republic	21	2011
119	Zimbabwe	20	2011
120	Belize	18.55	2011
121	Belgium	18.3	2011
122	Namibia	17.72	2011
123	Somalia	17.28	2011
124	Malawi	16.8	2011
125	Syria	14.7	2011
126	Togo	14.7	2011
127	Haiti	14.03	2011
128	Czech Republic	13.15	2011
129	Estonia	12.81	2011
130	Burundi	12.54	2011
131	Burkina Faso	12.5	2011
132	Botswana	12.24	2011
133	Algeria	11.67	2011
134	Moldova	11.65	2011
135	Mauritania	11.4	2011
136	Rwanda	9.5	2011
137	Jamaica	9.4	2011
138	Brunei	8.5	2011
139	Gambia	8	2011
140	Armenia	7.77	2011
141	Macedonia	6.4	2011
142	Eritrea	6.3	2011
143	Denmark	6	2011
144	Tunisia	4.6	2011
145	Lebanon	4.51	2011
146	Swaziland	4.5	2011
147	Trinidad and Tobago	3.84	2011
148	Luxembourg	3.1	2011
149	Lesotho	3.02	2011
150	Mauritius	2.75	2011
151	Saudi Arabia	2.4	2011
152	Yemen	2.1	2011
153	Israel	1.78	2011
154	Oman	1.4	2011
155	Comoros	1.2	2011
156	Jordan	0.94	2011
157	Cyprus	0.78	2011
158	Libya	0.7	2011
159	Singapore	0.6	2011
160	Cape Verde	0.3	2011
161	Djibouti	0.3	2011
162	United Arab Emirates	0.15	2011
163	Bahrain	0.12	2011
164	Barbados	0.08	2011
165	Qatar	0.06	2011
166	Antigua and Barbuda	0.05	2011
167	Malta	0.05	2011
168	Maldives	0.03	2011
169	Bahamas	0.02	2011
170	Kuwait	0.02	2011
171	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.02	2011

See also

• List of rivers by discharge
• List of largest unfragmented rivers