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...
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 | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Korea 130 Cubic metres
- Croatia 63.8 Cubic metres
- Slovak Republic 39.61 Cubic metres
- Moldova 17.95 Cubic metres
About this data
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