The CIA World Factbook Edition 2012 Geography

Total water withdrawal In 13 editions of 36.

Total water withdrawal was published in 13 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 2008 to 2025. The 2012 edition carries it in 169 entries, in its Geography section, under the heading “Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2012 edition
169
the first edition with it
2008
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)” (2008 to 2015) and “Total water withdrawal” (2021 to 2025).

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Africa

51 entries

Algeria

total:
6.07 cu km/yr (22%/13%/65%)
per capita:
185 cu m/yr (2000)

Angola

total:
0.35 cu km/yr (23%/17%/60%)
per capita:
22 cu m/yr (2000)

Benin

total:
0.13 cu km/yr (32%/23%/45%)
per capita:
15 cu m/yr (2001)

Botswana

total:
0.19 cu km/yr (41%/18%/41%)
per capita:
107 cu m/yr (2000)

Burkina Faso

total:
0.8 cu km/yr (13%/1%/86%)
per capita:
60 cu m/yr (2000)

Burundi

total:
0.29 cu km/yr (17%/6%/77%)
per capita:
38 cu m/yr (2000)

Cape Verde now Cabo Verde

total:
0.02 cu km/yr (7%/2%/91%)
per capita:
39 cu m/yr (2000)

Cameroon

total:
1.18 cu km/yr (18.2%/8.1%/73.7%)
per capita:
601 cu m/yr (2000)

Central African Republic

total:
0.03 cu km/yr (80%/16%/4%)
per capita:
7 cu m/yr (2000)

Chad

total:
0.23 cu km/yr (17%/0%/83%)
per capita:
24 cu m/yr (2000)

Comoros

total:
0.01 cu km/yr (48%/5%/47%)
per capita:
13 cu m/yr (1999)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo

total:
0.36 cu km/yr (53%/17%/31%)
per capita:
6 cu m/yr (2000)

Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo

total:
0.03 cu km/yr (59%/29%/12%)
per capita:
8 cu m/yr (2000)

Cote d'Ivoire

total:
0.93 cu km/yr (24%/12%/65%)
per capita:
51 cu m/yr (2000)

Djibouti

total:
0.02 cu km/yr (84%/0%/16%)
per capita:
25 cu m/yr (2000)

Egypt

total:
68.3 cu km/yr (8%/6%/86%)
per capita:
923 cu m/yr (2000)

Equatorial Guinea

total:
0.11 cu km/yr (83%/16%/1%)
per capita:
220 cu m/yr (2000)

Eritrea

total:
0.3 cu km/yr (3%/0%/97%)
per capita:
68 cu m/yr (2000)

Swaziland now Eswatini

total:
1.04 cu km/yr (2%/1%/97%)
per capita:
1,010 cu m/yr (2000)

Ethiopia

total:
5.56 cu km/yr (6%/0%/94%)
per capita:
72 cu m/yr (2002)

Gabon

total:
0.12 cu km/yr (50%/8%/42%)
per capita:
87 cu m/yr (2000)

Gambia, The now The Gambia

total:
0.03 cu km/yr (23%/12%/65%)
per capita:
20 cu m/yr (2000)

Ghana

total:
0.98 cu km/yr (24%/10%/66%)
per capita:
44 cu m/yr (2000)

Guinea

total:
1.51 cu km/yr (8%/2%/90%)
per capita:
161 cu m/yr (2000)

Guinea-Bissau

total:
0.18 cu km/yr (13%/5%/82%)
per capita:
113 cu m/yr (2000)

Kenya

total:
1.58 cu km/yr (30%/6%/64%)
per capita:
46 cu m/yr (2000)

Lesotho

total:
0.05 cu km/yr (40%/40%/20%)
per capita:
28 cu m/yr (2000)

Liberia

total:
0.11 cu km/yr (27%/18%/55%)
per capita:
34 cu m/yr (2000)

Libya

total:
4.27 cu km/yr (14%/3%/83%)
per capita:
730 cu m/yr (2000)

Madagascar

total:
14.96 cu km/yr (3%/2%/96%)
per capita:
804 cu m/yr (2000)

Malawi

total:
1.01 cu km/yr (15%/5%/80%)
per capita:
78 cu m/yr (2000)

Mali

total:
6.55 cu km/yr (9%/1%/90%)
per capita:
484 cu m/yr (2000)

Mauritania

total:
1.7 cu km/yr (9%/3%/88%)
per capita:
554 cu m/yr (2000)

Mauritius

total:
0.61 cu km/yr (25%/14%/60%)
per capita:
488 cu m/yr (2000)

Morocco

total:
12.6 cu km/yr (10%/3%/87%)
per capita:
400 cu m/yr (2000)

Mozambique

total:
0.63 cu km/yr (11%/2%/87%)
per capita:
32 cu m/yr (2000)

Namibia

total:
0.3 cu km/yr (24%/5%/71%)
per capita:
148 cu m/yr (2000)

Niger

total:
2.18 cu km/yr (4%/0%/95%)
per capita:
156 cu m/yr (2000)

Nigeria

total:
8.01 cu km/yr (21%/10%/69%)
per capita:
61 cu m/yr (2000)

Rwanda

total:
0.15 cu km/yr (24%/8%/68%)
per capita:
17 cu m/yr (2000)

Senegal

total:
2.22 cu km/yr (4%/3%/93%)
per capita:
190 cu m/yr (2002)

Sierra Leone

total:
0.38 cu km/yr (5%/3%/92%)
per capita:
69 cu m/yr (2000)

Somalia

total:
3.29 cu km/yr (0%/0%/100%)
per capita:
400 cu m/yr (2000)

South Africa

total:
12.5 cu km/yr (31%/6%/63%)
per capita:
264 cu m/yr (2000)

Sudan

total:
37.32 cu km/yr (3%/1%/97%)
per capita:
1,030 cu m/yr (2000)

Tanzania

total:
5.18 cu km/yr (10%/0%/89%)
per capita:
135 cu m/yr (2000)

Togo

total:
0.17 cu km/yr (53%/2%/45%)
per capita:
28 cu m/yr (2000)

Tunisia

total:
2.64 cu km/yr (14%/4%/82%)
per capita:
261 cu m/yr (2000)

Uganda

total:
0.3 cu km/yr (43%/17%/40%)
per capita:
10 cu m/yr (2002)

Zambia

total:
1.74 cu km/yr (17%/7%/76%)
per capita:
149 cu m/yr (2000)

Zimbabwe

total:
4.21 cu km/yr (14%/7%/79%)
per capita:
324 cu m/yr (2002)

Arctic Region

1 entry

Iceland

total:
0.17 cu km/yr (34%/66%/0%)
per capita:
567 cu m/yr (2003)

Asia

22 entries

Afghanistan

total:
23.26 cu km/yr (2%/0%/98%)
per capita:
779 cu m/yr (2000)

Armenia

total:
2.95 cu km/yr (30%/4%/66%)
per capita:
977 cu m/yr (2000)

Azerbaijan

total:
17.25 cu km/yr (5%/28%/68%)
per capita:
2,051 cu m/yr (2000)

Bangladesh

total:
79.4 cu km/yr (3%/1%/96%)
per capita:
560 cu m/yr (2000)

Bhutan

total:
0.43 cu km/yr (5%/1%/94%)
per capita:
199 cu m/yr (2000)

China

total:
549.76 cu km/yr (7%/26%/68%)
per capita:
415 cu m/yr (2000)

Georgia

total:
3.61 cu km/yr (20%/21%/59%)
per capita:
808 cu m/yr (2000)

India

total:
645.84 cu km/yr (8%/5%/86%)
per capita:
585 cu m/yr (2000)

Japan

total:
88.43 cu km/yr (20%/18%/62%)
per capita:
690 cu m/yr (2000)

Kazakhstan

total:
35 cu km/yr (2%/17%/82%)
per capita:
2,360 cu m/yr (2000)

Korea, North now North Korea

total:
9.02 cu km/yr (20%/25%/55%)
per capita:
401 cu m/yr (2000)

Korea, South now South Korea

total:
18.59 cu km/yr (36%/16%/48%)
per capita:
389 cu m/yr (2000)

Kyrgyzstan

total:
10.08 cu km/yr (3%/3%/94%)
per capita:
1,916 cu m/yr (2000)

Maldives

total:
0.003 cu km/yr (98%/2%/0%)
per capita:
9 cu m/yr (1987)

Mongolia

total:
0.44 cu km/yr (20%/27%/52%)
per capita:
166 cu m/yr (2000)

Nepal

total:
10.18 cu km/yr (3%/1%/96%)
per capita:
375 cu m/yr (2000)

Pakistan

total:
169.39 cu km/yr (2%/2%/96%)
per capita:
1,072 cu m/yr (2000)

Russia

total:
76.68 cu km/yr (19%/63%/18%)
per capita:
535 cu m/yr (2000)

Sri Lanka

total:
12.61 cu km/yr (2%/2%/95%)
per capita:
608 cu m/yr (2000)

Tajikistan

total:
11.96 cu km/yr (4%/5%/92%)
per capita:
1,837 cu m/yr (2000)

Turkmenistan

total:
24.65 cu km/yr (2%/1%/98%)
per capita:
5,104 cu m/yr (2000)

Uzbekistan

total:
58.34 cu km/yr (5%/2%/93%)
per capita:
2,194 cu m/yr (2000)

Central America and the Caribbean

18 entries

Antigua and Barbuda

total:
0.005 cu km/yr (60%/20%/20%)
per capita:
63 cu m/yr (1990)

Barbados

total:
0.09 cu km/yr (33%/44%/22%)
per capita:
333 cu m/yr (2000)

Belize

total:
0.15 cu km/yr (7%/73%/20%)
per capita:
556 cu m/yr (2000)

Costa Rica

total:
2.68 cu km/yr (29%/17%/53%)
per capita:
619 cu m/yr (2000)

Cuba

total:
8.2 cu km/yr (19%/12%/69%)
per capita:
728 cu m/yr (2000)

Curacao

NA

Dominica

total:
0.02 cu km/yr
per capita:
213 cu m/yr (1996)

Dominican Republic

total:
3.39 cu km/yr (32%/2%/66%)
per capita:
381 cu m/yr (2000)

El Salvador

total:
1.28 cu km/yr (25%/16%/59%)
per capita:
186 cu m/yr (2000)

Guatemala

total:
2.01 cu km/yr (6%/13%/80%)
per capita:
160 cu m/yr (2000)

Haiti

total:
0.99 cu km/yr (5%/1%/94%)
per capita:
116 cu m/yr (2000)

Honduras

total:
0.86 cu km/yr (8%/12%/80%)
per capita:
119 cu m/yr (2000)

Jamaica

total:
0.41 cu km/yr (34%/17%/49%)
per capita:
155 cu m/yr (2000)

Nicaragua

total:
1.3 cu km/yr (15%/2%/83%)
per capita:
237 cu m/yr (2000)

Panama

total:
0.82 cu km/yr (67%/5%/28%)
per capita:
254 cu m/yr (2000)

Saint Lucia

total:
0.01
per capita:
81 cu m/yr (1997)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

total:
0.01
per capita:
83 cu m/yr (1995)

Trinidad and Tobago

total:
0.31 cu km/yr (68%/26%/6%)
per capita:
237 cu m/yr (2000)

Europe

33 entries

Albania

total:
1.71 cu km/yr (27%/11%/62%)
per capita:
546 cu m/yr (2000)

Austria

total:
3.67 cu km/yr (35%/64%/1%)
per capita:
448 cu m/yr (1999)

Belarus

total:
2.79 cu km/yr (23%/47%/30%)
per capita:
286 cu m/yr (2000)

Belgium

total:
7.44 cu km/yr (13%/85%/1%)
per capita:
714 cu m/yr (1998)

Bulgaria

total:
6.92 cu km/yr (3%/78%/19%)
per capita:
895 cu m/yr (2003)

Czech Republic now Czechia

total:
1.91 cu km/yr (41%/57%/2%)
per capita:
187 cu m/yr (2002)

Denmark

total:
0.67 cu km/yr (32%/26%/42%)
per capita:
123 cu m/yr (2002)

Estonia

total:
1.41 cu km/yr (56%/39%/5%)
per capita:
1,060 cu m/yr (2002)

Finland

total:
2.33 cu km/yr (14%/84%/3%)
per capita:
444 cu m/yr (1999)

France

total:
33.16 cu km/yr (16%/74%/10%)
per capita:
548 cu m/yr (2000)

Germany

total:
38.01 cu km/yr (12%/68%/20%)
per capita:
460 cu m/yr (2001)

Greece

total:
8.7 cu km/yr (16%/3%/81%)
per capita:
782 cu m/yr (1997)

Hungary

total:
21.03 cu km/yr (9%/59%/32%)
per capita:
2,082 cu m/yr (2001)

Ireland

total:
1.18 cu km/yr (23%/77%/0%)
per capita:
284 cu m/yr (1994)

Italy

total:
41.98 cu km/yr (18%/37%/45%)
per capita:
723 cu m/yr (1998)

Latvia

total:
0.25 cu km/yr (55%/33%/12%)
per capita:
108 cu m/yr (2003)

Lithuania

total:
3.33 cu km/yr (78%/15%/7%)
per capita:
971 cu m/yr (2003)

Luxembourg

total:
0.06 cu km/yr (42%/45%/13%)
per capita:
121 cu m/yr (1999)

Malta

total:
0.02 cu km/yr (74%/1%/25%)
per capita:
50 cu m/yr (2000)

Moldova

total:
2.31 cu km/yr (10%/58%/33%)
per capita:
549 cu m/yr (2000)

Netherlands

total:
8.86 cu km/yr (6%/60%/34%)
per capita:
544 cu m/yr (2001)

Macedonia now North Macedonia

total:
2.27
per capita:
1,118 cu m/yr (2000)

Norway

total:
2.4 cu km/yr (23%/67%/10%)
per capita:
519 cu m/yr (1996)

Poland

total:
11.73 cu km/yr (13%/79%/8%)
per capita:
304 cu m/yr (2002)

Portugal

total:
11.09 cu km/yr (10%/12%/78%)
per capita:
1,056 cu m/yr (1998)

Romania

total:
6.5 cu km/yr (9%/34%/57%)
per capita:
299 cu m/yr (2003)

Slovakia

total:
1.04
per capita:
193 cu m/yr (2003)

Slovenia

total:
0.9
per capita:
457 cu m/yr (2002)

Spain

total:
37.22 cu km/yr (13%/19%/68%)
per capita:
864 cu m/yr (2002)

Sweden

total:
2.68 cu km/yr (37%/54%/9%)
per capita:
296 cu m/yr (2002)

Switzerland

total:
2.52 cu km/yr (24%/74%/2%)
per capita:
348 cu m/yr (2002)

Ukraine

total:
37.53 cu km/yr (12%/35%/52%)
per capita:
807 cu m/yr (2000)

United Kingdom

total:
11.75 cu km/yr (22%/75%/3%)
per capita:
197 cu m/yr (1994)

Middle East

15 entries

Bahrain

total:
0.3 cu km/yr (40%/3%/57%)
per capita:
411 cu m/yr (2000)

Cyprus

total:
0.21 cu km/yr (27%/1%/71%)
per capita:
250 cu m/yr (2000)

Iran

total:
72.88 cu km/yr (7%/2%/91%)
per capita:
1,048 cu m/yr (2000)

Iraq

total:
42.7 cu km/yr (3%/5%/92%)
per capita:
1,482 cu m/yr (2000)

Israel

total:
2.05 cu km/yr (31%/7%/62%)
per capita:
305 cu m/yr (2000)

Jordan

total:
1.01 cu km/yr (21%/4%/75%)
per capita:
177 cu m/yr (2000)

Kuwait

total:
0.44 cu km/yr (45%/2%/52%)
per capita:
164 cu m/yr (2000)

Lebanon

total:
1.38 cu km/yr (33%/1%/67%)
per capita:
385 cu m/yr (2000)

Oman

total:
1.36 cu km/yr (7%/2%/90%)
per capita:
529 cu m/yr (2000)

Qatar

total:
0.29 cu km/yr (24%/3%/72%)
per capita:
358 cu m/yr (2000)

Saudi Arabia

total:
17.32 cu km/yr (10%/1%/89%)
per capita:
705 cu m/yr (2000)

Syria

total:
19.95 cu km/yr (3%/2%/95%)
per capita:
1,048 cu m/yr (2000)

Turkey now Turkiye

total:
39.78 cu km/yr (15%/11%/74%)
per capita:
544 cu m/yr (2001)

United Arab Emirates

total:
2.3 cu km/yr (23%/9%/68%)
per capita:
511 cu m/yr (2000)

Yemen

total:
6.63 cu km/yr (4%/1%/95%)
per capita:
316 cu m/yr (2000)

North America

3 entries

Canada

total:
44.72 cu km/yr (20%/69%/12%)
per capita:
1,386 cu m/yr (1996)

Mexico

total:
78.22 cu km/yr (17%/5%/77%)
per capita:
731 cu m/yr (2000)

United States

total:
477 cu km/yr (13%/46%/41%)
per capita:
1,600 cu m/yr (2000)

Oceania

4 entries

Australia

total:
24.06 cu km/yr (15%/10%/75%)
per capita:
1,193 cu m/yr (2000)

Fiji

total:
0.07 cu km/yr (14%/14%/71%)
per capita:
82 cu m/yr (2000)

New Zealand

total:
2.11 cu km/yr (48%/9%/42%)
per capita:
524 cu m/yr (2000)

Papua New Guinea

total:
0.1 cu km/yr (56%/43%/1%)
per capita:
17 cu m/yr (1987)

South America

12 entries

Argentina

total:
29.19 cu km/yr (17%/9%/74%)
per capita:
753 cu m/yr (2000)

Bolivia

total:
1.44 cu km/yr (13%/7%/81%)
per capita:
157 cu m/yr (2000)

Brazil

total:
59.3 cu km/yr (20%/18%/62%)
per capita:
318 cu m/yr (2000)

Chile

total:
12.55 cu km/yr (11%/25%/64%)
per capita:
770 cu m/yr (2000)

Colombia

total:
10.71 cu km/yr (50%/4%/46%)
per capita:
235 cu m/yr (2000)

Ecuador

total:
16.98 cu km/yr (12%/5%/82%)
per capita:
1,283 cu m/yr (2000)

Guyana

total:
1.64 cu km/yr (2%/1%/98%)
per capita:
2,187 cu m/yr (2000)

Paraguay

total:
0.49 cu km/yr (20%/8%/71%)
per capita:
80 cu m/yr (2000)

Peru

total:
20.13 cu km/yr (8%/10%/82%)
per capita:
720 cu m/yr (2000)

Suriname

total:
0.67 cu km/yr (4%/3%/93%)
per capita:
1,489 cu m/yr (2000)

Uruguay

total:
3.15 cu km/yr (2%/1%/96%)
per capita:
910 cu m/yr (2000)

Venezuela

total:
8.37 cu km/yr (6%/7%/47%)
per capita:
313 cu m/yr (2000)

Southeast Asia

10 entries

Brunei

total:
0.09
per capita:
243 cu m/yr (1994)

Burma now Burma (Myanmar)

total:
33.23 cu km/yr (1%/1%/98%)
per capita:
658 cu m/yr (2000)

Cambodia

total:
4.08 cu km/yr (1%/0%/98%)
per capita:
290 cu m/yr (2000)

Indonesia

total:
82.78 cu km/yr (8%/1%/91%)
per capita:
372 cu m/yr (2000)

Laos

total:
3 cu km/yr (4%/6%/90%)
per capita:
507 cu m/yr (2000)

Malaysia

total:
9.02 cu km/yr (17%/21%/62%)
per capita:
356 cu m/yr (2000)

Philippines

total:
28.52 cu km/yr (17%/9%/74%)
per capita:
343 cu m/yr (2000)

Singapore

total:
0.19 cu km/yr (45%/51%/4%)
per capita:
44 cu m/yr (1975)

Thailand

total:
82.75 cu km/yr (2%/2%/95%)
per capita:
1,288 cu m/yr (2000)

Vietnam

total:
71.39 cu km/yr (8%/24%/68%)
per capita:
847 cu m/yr (2000)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2012, “Total water withdrawal”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/total-water-withdrawal/2012.

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