Ranked: The Countries With the Most Freshwater

Key Takeaways

• Brazil has the world’s largest share of renewable internal freshwater resources, accounting for 13.2% of the global total.
• The top five countries account for 43.2% of the world’s renewable internal freshwater resources.
• Latin America and the Caribbean hold nearly one-third of global renewable internal freshwater resources, the largest share of any region.

Freshwater resources are concentrated among a relatively small number of countries, led by Brazil and Russia.

This visualization ranks countries by renewable internal freshwater resources, which measures freshwater generated within a country through river flows and groundwater recharge.

The data for this visualization comes from FAO Aquastat via the World Bank, with figures for 2022, the latest available as of August 2026.

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