Dataset · FAO
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita
62 years, 1961–2022 · 181 countries
This measures how much renewable freshwater a country generates inside its own borders each year, divided by its population. The Falkenmark thresholds rest on it: below 1,700 cubic metres a head is water stress, and below 1,000 is scarcity — which is why more here is genuinely better and not merely larger.
This site holds every year from 1961 to 2022, read from FAO’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita · the file
- Newest
- Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022
- Held
- 62 years · 10,438 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0162 years
Every year
Every year comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 62 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: freshwater-per-capita-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2022 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 181 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 181 | 0 | |
Renewable internal freshwater (cubic metres per person)freshwater_per_capitaHeadline | The headline figure: Renewable internal freshwater (cubic metres per person). | Number · up to 14 decimals | 0 Kuwait445,023 Icelandmiddle 2,528 | 181 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03183 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 51 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 | 53 |
| Americas | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 |
| Asia | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 46 |
| Europe | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| Oceania | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| All | 181 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 181 |
The newest 12 of 62 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2022
− Israel
− Palestine - 2012
+ Sudan
+ South Sudan - 2006
+ Serbia - 1993
+ Czechia
+ Eritrea
+ Ethiopia
+ Slovakia - 1992
+ Armenia
+ Azerbaijan
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina
+ Belarus
+ Estonia
+ Georgia
+ Croatia
+ Kazakhstan
+ Kyrgyzstan
+ Lithuania
+ Latvia
+ Moldova
+ North Macedonia
+ Russia
+ Slovenia
+ Tajikistan
+ Turkmenistan
+ Ukraine
+ Uzbekistan - 1990+ Palestine
- 1962
+ Afghanistan
+ Andorra
+ Belize
+ Dominica
+ Fiji
+ Grenada
+ Saint Lucia
+ Nauru
+ Solomon Islands
+ Timor-Leste
+ Trinidad and Tobago
+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
+ Vanuatu
Not in this dataset · 42 places this site covers
FAO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
American Samoa
Anguilla
Aruba
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman IslandsChannel Islands
Cook Islands
Curaçao
Faroe Islands
French Polynesia
Gibraltar
Greenland
Guam
Hong Kong
Isle of Man
Kiribati
Kosovo
Liechtenstein
Macau
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Monaco
Montenegro
Montserrat
New Caledonia
NiueNorthern Cyprus
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Saint Martin
Samoa
San Marino
Seychelles
Sint MaartenSomaliland
Taiwan
Tonga
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United States Virgin Islands
Vatican City04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2 · Their file
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita 2022
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
62 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as freshwater-per-capita-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From FAO AQUASTAT via the World Bank’s indicator API (ER.H2O.INTR.PC).
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 6, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 1961–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/freshwater-per-capita
The publisher’s own citation: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AQUASTAT. Rome: FAO.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Questions
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita: questions and answers
What is the Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita?
This measures how much renewable freshwater a country generates inside its own borders each year, divided by its population. The Falkenmark thresholds rest on it: below 1,700 cubic metres a head is water stress, and below 1,000 is scarcity — which is why more here is genuinely better and not merely larger.
Which years of the Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita can I download?
All 62, from 1961 to 2022, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does FAO rank countries on it?
No. FAO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to FAO. The licence text is linked on this page.