Data for 2022

Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022

Name: Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022
Creator: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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2022, as FAO’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022 covers 181 countries. Iceland is highest, at 445,023; Kuwait is lowest, at 0. The middle country reads 2,528. Against 2021, 180 values changed (32 up, 148 down), 2 left.

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Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita · Data for 2022

HighestIceland

445,023

LowestKuwait

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

181countries
1measure
2022the year it describes
181distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022, as published. FAO ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022: every country, as published by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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1	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	445,023
2	Guyana`GUY`South America	293,317
3	Suriname`SUR`South America	158,867
4	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	99,883
5	Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	78,505
6	Canada`CAN`Northern America	73,170
7	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	70,000
8	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	67,469
9	New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	64,349
10	Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	57,229
11	Peru`PER`South America	49,021
12	Chile`CHL`South America	45,262
13	Colombia`COL`South America	41,459
14	Belize`BLZ`Central America	37,891
15	Liberia`LBR`Western Africa	37,221
16	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	36,785
17	Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	31,944
18	Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	31,052
19	Panama`PAN`Central America	31,040
20	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	29,895
21	Venezuela`VEN`South America	28,533
22	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	27,658
23	Uruguay`URY`South America	27,190
24	Brazil`BRA`South America	26,918
25	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	25,188
26	Bolivia`BOL`South America	25,130
27	Ecuador`ECU`South America	24,821
28	Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	23,209
29	Costa Rica`CRI`Central America	22,236
30	Sierra Leone`SLE`Western Africa	19,331
31	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	19,258
32	Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	18,909
33	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	18,666
34	Myanmar`MMR`South-eastern Asia	18,654
35	Paraguay`PRY`South America	17,307
36	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	16,717
37	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	16,306
38	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	16,080
39	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	15,658
40	Equatorial Guinea`GNQ`Middle Africa	14,416
41	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	11,077
42	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	11,072
43	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	10,972
44	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	10,135
45	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	9,880
46	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	9,778
47	São Tomé and Príncipe`STP`Middle Africa	9,633
48	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	9,423
49	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	9,400
50	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	9,014
51	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	8,840
52	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	8,789
53	Honduras`HND`Central America	8,664
54	United States`USA`Northern America	8,437
55	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	7,599
56	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	7,240
57	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	7,015
58	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	7,011
59	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	6,670
60	Argentina`ARG`South America	6,431
61	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	6,232
62	Guatemala`GTM`Central America	6,118
63	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	6,083
64	Timor-Leste`TLS`South-eastern Asia	5,999
65	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	5,557
66	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	5,460
67	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	4,603
68	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	4,203
69	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	4,153
70	Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	3,980
71	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	3,960
72	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	3,812
73	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	3,684
74	Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	3,642
75	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	3,606
76	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	3,447
77	Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	3,437
78	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	3,248
79	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	3,212
80	Mexico`MEX`Central America	3,180
81	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	3,130
82	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	3,093
83	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	3,071
84	Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	2,993
85	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	2,948
86	France`FRA`Western Europe	2,933
87	Trinidad and Tobago`TTO`Caribbean	2,812
88	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	2,671
89	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	2,600
90	North Korea`PRK`Eastern Asia	2,545
91	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	2,528
92	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	2,489
93	Sri Lanka`LKA`Southern Asia	2,380
94	South Sudan`SSD`Eastern Africa	2,359
95	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	2,327
96	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	2,320
97	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	2,310
98	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	2,288
99	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	2,225
100	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	2,205
101	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	2,179
102	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	2,166
103	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	2,144
104	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	2,132
105	Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	2,092
106	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	1,992
107	Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	1,761
108	Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	1,711
109	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	1,678
110	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	1,531
111	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	1,462
112	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	1,456
113	Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	1,439
114	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	1,435
115	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	1,425
116	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	1,342
117	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	1,298
118	Germany`DEU`Western Europe	1,286
119	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	1,261
120	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	1,255
121	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	1,232
122	Afghanistan`AFG`Southern Asia	1,162
123	Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	1,138
124	Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	1,131
125	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	1,027
126	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	1,016
127	India`IND`Southern Asia	1,014
128	Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	990
129	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	984
130	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	980
131	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	973
132	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	914
133	Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	847
134	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	836
135	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	824
136	Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	821
137	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	813
138	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	800
139	Iraq`IRQ`Western Asia	799
140	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	785
141	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	777
142	Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	763
143	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	755
144	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	749
145	South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	718
146	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	696
147	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	641
148	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	625
149	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	621
150	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	620
151	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	586
152	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	577
153	Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	560
154	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	555
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	514
156	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	468
157	Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	382
158	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	346
159	Somalia`SOM`Eastern Africa	337
160	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	318
161	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	296
162	Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	283
163	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	264
164	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	247
165	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	226
166	Turkmenistan`TKM`Central Asia	194
167	Niger`NER`Western Africa	138
168	Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	106
169	Libya`LBY`Northern Africa	97
170	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	95
171	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	82
172	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	81
173	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	75
174	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	61
175	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	57
176	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	55
177	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	21
178	United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	15
179	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	9
180	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	3
181	Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	0

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

1Iceland445,023
2Guyana293,317
3Suriname158,867
4Bhutan99,883
5Papua New Guinea78,505

Lowest

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2,528. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+0 / −2countries joined / left
180values changed, of 181 in both
32 · 148rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Albania10,804 → 10,972+168
Bosnia and Herzegovina10,940 → 11,077+137
Russia29,790 → 29,895+105
Ukraine1,244 → 1,342+98
Central African Republic27,582 → 27,658+76

Fell most

Iceland456,351 → 445,023−11,329
Guyana295,531 → 293,317−2,214
Gabon69,003 → 67,469−1,534
Papua New Guinea79,997 → 78,505−1,492
Solomon Islands58,616 → 57,229−1,386

− Israel

− Palestine

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

One year of the 2026 release
Every year in this series comes from FAO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 2022.
The position is ours
FAO publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 181 countries has every column.

05The files

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Cite this edition

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) (2022). Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/freshwater-per-capita/2022

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