Annual freshwater withdrawals (% of internal resources)
- World average (population-weighted)
- 158.3 %
- across 175 countries, 2022
- Latest observation
- 2022
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
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One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2022.
Top 5
- 0.0 %
- 0.0 %
- 0.1 %
- 0.1 %
- 0.1 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · ER.H2O.FWTL.ZS
Bottom 5
- 171Saudi Arabia974.2 %
- 1,509.9 %
- 173Turkmenistan1,868.0 %
- 174Bahrain3,877.5 %
- 175Egypt7,750.0 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · ER.H2O.FWTL.ZS
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Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- % of internal resources (%)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · Lower is better
- Valid range
- 0 – 10000
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source177 countries · 6,170 obs. · → 2022 · CC BY 4.0
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production and for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002. Source: AQUASTAT - FAO's Global Information System on Water and Agriculture, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://data.apps.fao.org/aquastat/, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), date accessed: 20240529
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=freshwater-withdrawal-share" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'