Global renewable water resources 2017, by region

Published by Ian Tiseo, Aug 17, 2021
The Americas has the largest renewable water resources worldwide, at 25.16 trillion cubic meters as of 2017. This accounted for almost 50 percent of the world's renewable water resources. Brazil alone accounted for more than 30 percent of renewable water resources in the Americas that year, and almost 16 percent of the global total.

Estimated renewable water resources worldwide as of 2017, by region* (in billion cubic meters)

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2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2017

Supplementary notes

*Figures were rounded and manually calculated using sub-region country data.
Total Renewable Water Resources (TRWR): The sum of internal renewable water resources (IRWR) and external renewable water resources (ERWR). It corresponds to the maximum theoretical yearly amount of water available for a country at a given moment.

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