Countries with the Most Freshwater Per Person 2022
About This Dataset
Countries with the Most Freshwater Per Person 2022
Countries ranked by renewable freshwater (m3 per person) in 2022, using World Bank figures for the 181 countries that reported that year. Iceland leads on 445,023, ahead of Guyana (293,317) and Suriname (158,867). Internal renewable freshwater resources per person, counting rainfall and rivers generated inside the country. Small populations in wet regions dominate this measure.
Analysis
Iceland (445,023), Guyana (293,317) and Suriname (158,867) take the top three. Across the twenty shown, values run from 445,023 down to 29,895, a spread of 415,128. Iceland is 1.52 times Guyana, the country in second place. 2 of the 20 reach half the leading figure, 222,512 or more. The chart shows the twenty highest of 181 reporting countries, so it describes the top of the distribution rather than the world average.
Source:
World Bank
Key Findings
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Iceland leads in Renewable Freshwater (m3 per Person) with 445,023 in 2022.
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Average Renewable Freshwater (m3 per Person) in 2022: 88,969 · median: 53,125.
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Gap in 2022: Iceland is 14.9× larger than Russia.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank
- Coverage
- 20 entities · 2022 · 20 observations
- Measure
- Renewable Freshwater (m3 per Person)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2022.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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