List of countries by water resources

The following list sorts countries according to their renewable fresh water reserves. Water reserves are all water resources that are located on the territory of a country. This includes all reserves that are in lakes , rivers , swamps and as groundwater in the ground. Only freshwater stocks are counted as water resources . Such stocks are only 0.01% of all world water.

With global population growth , water reserves are becoming an increasingly important resource, with global water resources being very unevenly distributed.

Countries by water resources per capita

List of countries according to renewable fresh water resources per capita in cubic meters at the last determinable point in time.

rank	country	Water resources per capita in cubic meters	year
1	Greenland	10,662,187	2014
2	Iceland	519.264	2014
3	Guyana	315,695	2014
4th	Suriname	180,680	2014
5	Papua New Guinea	103.278	2014
6th	Bhutan	100,457	2014
7th	Gabon	87,433	2014
8th	Canada	80.202	2014
9	Solomon Islands	77,671	2014
10	Norway	74,359	2014
11	New Zealand	72,510	2014
12	Peru	52,981	2014
13	Chile	52,245	2014
14th	Liberia	45,550	2014
15th	Colombia	44,882	2014
16	Belize	43,390	2014
17th	Vanuatu	38,632	2014
18th	Panama	34,990	2014
19th	Fiji	32,231	2014
20th	Central African Republic	31,227	2014
21st	Russia	29,982	2014
22nd	Laos	28,952	2014
23	Bolivia	28,734	2014
24	Ecuador	27,818	2014
25th	Brazil	27,721	2014
26th	Uruguay	26,963	2014
27	Venezuela	26,189	2014
28	Nicaragua	25,973	2014
29	Costa Rica	23,752	2014
30th	Equatorial Guinea	23,020	2014
31	Sierra Leone	22.601	2014
32	Australia	20,932	2014
33	Brunei	20,645	2014
34	Finland	19,592	2014
35	Myanmar	19,317	2014
36	Malaysia	19,188	2014
37	Guinea	19,144	2014
38	Paraguay	17,856	2014
39	Sweden	17,636	2014
40	Georgia	15,597	2014
41	Madagascar	14,286	2014
42	Cameroon	12,276	2014
43	Democratic Republic of Congo	12.208	2014
44	Mongolia	11,902	2014
45	Sao Tome and Principe	11,398	2014
46	Ireland	10,520	2014
47	Honduras	10,291	2014
48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9,955	2014
49	Estonia	9,669	2014
50	Albania	9,311	2014
51	Guinea-Bissau	9,271	2014
52	Slovenia	9,054	2014
53	Croatia	8,895	2014
54	United States	8,844	2014
55	Latvia	8,496	2014
56	Indonesia	7.914	2014
57	Cambodia	7,897	2014
58	Tajikistan	7,588	2014
59	Nepal	6,998	2014
60	Guatemala	6,858	2014
61	Argentina	6,794	2014
62	East Timor	6,773	2014
63	Austria	6,435	2014
64	Angola	5,498	2014
65	Greece	5,324	2014
66	Lithuania	5,272	2014
67	Zambia	5.134	2014
68	Switzerland	4,934	2014
69	Philippines	4,785	2014
70	Andorra	3,984	2014
71	Vietnam	3,884	2014
72	Jamaica	3,780	2014
73	Kazakhstan	3,722	2014
74	Mozambique	3,685	2014
75	Portugal	3,653	2014
76	Belarus	3,589	2014
77	Mali	3,537	2014
78	Ivory Coast	3,410	2014
79	Japan	3,378	2014
80	Cuba	3,332	2014
81	Mexico	3,293	2014
82	Thailand	3,281	2014
83	France	3,015	2014
84	Italy	3,002	2014
85	Turkey	2,947	2014
86	Bulgaria	2,907	2014
87	Trinidad and Tobago	2,835	2014
88	Dominica	2,748	2014
89	North Korea	2,668	2014
90	North Macedonia	2,599	2014
91	Namibia	2,598	2014
92	Sri Lanka	2,542	2014
93	El Salvador	2,488	2014
94	Lesotho	2,437	2014
95	Spain	2,392	2014
96	Armenia	2,360	2014
97	Slovakia	2,325	2014
98	Dominican Republic	2,258	2014
99	South Sudan	2,254	2014
100	United Kingdom	2,244	2014
101	Mauritius	2,181	2014
102	Romania	2.129	2014
103	People's Republic of China	2,062	2014
104	Swaziland	2,038	2014
105	Puerto Rico	2.008	2014
106	Grenada	1,880	2014
107	Bahamas	1,832	2014
108	Luxembourg	1,798	2014
109	Senegal	1,774	2014
110	St. Lucia	1,700	2014
111	Iran	1,639	2014
112	Tanzania	1,608	2014
113	Togo	1,591	2014
114	Comoros	1,580	2014
115	Gambia	1,564	2014
116	Afghanistan	1,439	2014
117	Poland	1,410	2014
118	Germany	1,321	2014
119	South Korea	1,278	2014
120	Ethiopia	1,253	2014
121	Nigeria	1,252	2014
122	Czech Republic	1,249	2014
123	Haiti	1,230	2014
124	Ukraine	1,217	2014
125	Serbia	1,179	2014
126	Ghana	1,124	2014
127	India	1,118	2014
128	Botswana	1.107	2014
129	Chad	1.105	2014
130	Belgium	1,071	2014
131	Denmark	1,063	2014
132	Burundi	1,017	2014
133	Iraq	1.006	2014
134	Uganda	1.004	2014
135	Benin	1,001	2014
136	Malawi	946	2014
137	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	914	2014
138	Lebanon	857	2014
139	Azerbaijan	851	2014
140	Morocco	845	2014
141	Rwanda	837	2014
142	South Africa	821	2014
143	Zimbabwe	796	2014
144	Burkina Faso	710	2014
145	Cyprus	677	2014
146	Eritrea	674	2007
147	Bangladesh	659	2014
148	Netherlands	652	2014
149	Hungary	608	2014
150	Cape Verde	570	2014
151	Uzbekistan	531	2014
152	Antigua and Barbuda	526	2014
153	Moldova	456	2014
154	Kenya	450	2014
155	St. Kitts and Nevis	447	2014
156	Somalia	444	2014
157	Tunisia	376	2014
158	Syria	371	2014
159	Oman	353	2014
160	Djibouti	329	2014
161	Pakistan	296	2014
162	Algeria	287	2014
163	Barbados	282	2014
164	Turkmenistan	257	2014
165	Palestine	189	2014
166	Niger	183	2014
167	Malta	116	2014
168	Libya	113	2014
169	Singapore	110	2014
170	Sudan	102	2014
171	Mauritania	98	2014
172	Israel	91	2014
173	Yemen	80	2014
174	Saudi Arabia	78	2014
175	Jordan	77	2014
176	Maldives	73	2014
177	Qatar	24	2014
178	United Arab Emirates	17th	2014
179	Bahrain	3	2014
180	Kuwait	0	2014
	world	5,920	2014

Countries by water resources

List of countries with the largest renewable fresh water resources in billions of cubic meters.

rank	country	Water resources in billions of cubic meters	year
1	Brazil	5,661	2014
2	Russia	4,312	2014
3	Canada	2,850	2014
4th	United States	2,818	2014
5	People's Republic of China	2,813	2014
6th	Colombia	2.145	2014
7th	Indonesia	2,019	2014
8th	Peru	1,614	2014
9	India	1,446	2014
10	Myanmar	1.003	2014
11	Democratic Republic of Congo	900	2014
12	Chile	885	2014
13	Venezuela	805	2014
14th	Papua New Guinea	801	2014
15th	Malaysia	580	2014
16	Australia	492	2014
17th	Philippines	479	2014
18th	Ecuador	442	2014
19th	Japan	430	2014
20th	Mexico	409	2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter H. Gleick, Gary H. Wolff, Heather Cooley, Meena Palaniappan, Andrea Samulon: The World's Water 2006-2008: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources . Island Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-59726-951-3 ( google.de [accessed November 27, 2018]).
2. ↑ Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita (cubic meters) | Data. Retrieved November 27, 2018 (American English). 
3. ↑ Renewable internal freshwater resources, total (billion cubic meters) | Data. Retrieved November 27, 2018 (American English).