Water accounts - assets — Precipitations by country

Water flow accounts describe flows of water, in physical units, encompassing the initial abstraction of water resources from the environment into the economy, to the water flows within the economy in the form of supply and use by industries and households, and finally, flows of water back to the environment. Asset...

Countries reporting
41
Highest
14,357 Cubic metres
Brazil
Lowest
2.03 Cubic metres
Luxembourg
Median
285.27 Cubic metres
Years covered
45
1980–2024
Data points
2,340

What the numbers show

Water accounts - assets — Precipitations is currently reported for 41 countries. The highest value is 14,357 Cubic metres in Brazil; the lowest is 2.03 Cubic metres in Luxembourg.

The median across all reporting countries is 285.27 Cubic metres, and the mean is 1,415 Cubic metres.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7,072.

Water accounts - assets — Precipitations: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Brazil 14,357 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
2 Russia 9,768 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
3 United States 7,839 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
4 China (People’s Republic of) 6,173 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
5 India 4,000 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
6 Australia 3,628 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
7 Argentina 2,132 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
8 Chile 1,487 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
9 Mexico 1,449 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
10 Thailand 768.42 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
11 Japan 650 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
12 Norway 555.79 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
13 New Zealand 533.8 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
14 South Africa 524.6 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
15 France 512.86 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
16 Sweden 374.95 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
17 Ukraine 350.06 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
18 Spain 323.21 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
19 Germany 309 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
20 United Kingdom 287.61 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
21 Italy 285.27 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
22 Finland 222 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
23 Iceland 200 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
24 Costa Rica 165.61 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
25 Belarus 133.4 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
26 Romania 132.81 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
27 Greece 115 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
28 Austria 98.23 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
29 Ireland 89.49 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
30 Georgia 83.14 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
31 Portugal 82.16 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
32 Bulgaria 73.7 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
33 Switzerland 61.21 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
34 Hungary 57.29 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
35 Czechia 53.45 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
36 Denmark 38.48 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
37 Azerbaijan 36.98 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
38 Belgium 27.09 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
39 Armenia 17.64 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
40 Israel 5.82 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat
41 Luxembourg 2.03 Cubic metres 2024 unchanged flat

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Water accounts - assets — Precipitations
Unit
Cubic metres
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
52 places, 2,340 data points, 1980–2024
Last refreshed

Water flow accounts describe flows of water, in physical units, encompassing the initial abstraction of water resources from the environment into the economy, to the water flows within the economy in the form of supply and use by industries and households, and finally, flows of water back to the environment. Asset accounts for water resources focus on the inflows and outflows of water to and from the land surface and subsurface, and on the destination of these flows. They present information on the stock of water at the beginning and end of an accounting period. Data source(s): Joint OECD/Eurostat questionnaire on Inland Waters. Data for non-OECD countries is sourced from UNSD (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/envstats/country_files) Contact: ENV.Stat@oecd.org Dataset release date: August 7, 2026 Database documentation