Highest Waterfalls in the World
About This Dataset
Highest Waterfalls in the World
Waterfalls ranked by total height of uninterrupted drop in metres. Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall at 979 metres — nearly 20 times the height of Niagara Falls — plunging from the summit of Auyán-tepui, one of Venezuela's flat-topped table mountains. The falls were first documented by US aviator Jimmie Angel in 1933, whose name they bear, though the indigenous Pemon people had long known them as Kerepakupai Merú.
Analysis
The top three in Height (Metres) are Angel Falls (Venezuela) (979), Tugela Falls (South Africa) (948) and Cataratas las Tres Hermanas (Peru) (914). The 8 entries in Height (Metres) cover a range of 139, from 979 down to 840. First and second are separated by 31, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. The other 6 are bunched between 840 and 914 Height (Metres).
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Angel Falls (Venezuela) leads in Height (Metres) with 979.
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Average Height (Metres): 898 · median: 898.
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Gap: Angel Falls (Venezuela) is 1.2× larger than Pu'uka'oku Falls (USA/Hawaii).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Height (Metres)
- 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.
Data Sources & References
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