Renewable internal freshwater per person in OECD members

OECD member countries had 9,318 cubic metres of renewable internal freshwater per person in 2022.

Measure: Renewable internal freshwater per person Unit: Cubic metres per person Data: 1961 to 2022 Source: World Bank
OECD members is a group: OECD member countries as grouped by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
OECD members, 2022 9,318 Cubic metres per person
Change from 2021 +0.2% 2021: 9,299 m³ per person
World, 2022 5,393 m³ per person Official aggregate

Renewable internal freshwater per person in OECD members over time

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Cubic metres per person. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Renewable internal freshwater per person (cubic metres per person), 1998 to 2022
Period OECD membersWorld
2022 9,318 m³ per person 5,393 m³ per person
2021 9,299 m³ per person 5,431 m³ per person
2020 9,316 m³ per person 5,476 m³ per person
2019 9,352 m³ per person 5,531 m³ per person
2018 9,406 m³ per person 5,589 m³ per person
2017 9,463 m³ per person 5,650 m³ per person
2016 9,519 m³ per person 5,714 m³ per person
2015 9,580 m³ per person 5,781 m³ per person
2014 9,639 m³ per person 5,850 m³ per person
2013 9,698 m³ per person 5,922 m³ per person
2012 9,755 m³ per person 5,995 m³ per person
2011 9,816 m³ per person 6,107 m³ per person
2010 9,868 m³ per person 6,182 m³ per person
2009 9,935 m³ per person 6,257 m³ per person
2008 10,008 m³ per person 6,336 m³ per person
2007 10,087 m³ per person 6,416 m³ per person
2006 10,159 m³ per person 6,497 m³ per person
2005 10,233 m³ per person 6,586 m³ per person
2004 10,305 m³ per person 6,670 m³ per person
2003 10,380 m³ per person 6,757 m³ per person
2002 10,456 m³ per person 6,844 m³ per person
2001 10,533 m³ per person 6,935 m³ per person
2000 10,611 m³ per person 7,028 m³ per person
1999 10,687 m³ per person 7,124 m³ per person
1998 10,766 m³ per person 7,225 m³ per person

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.2% from 9,299 m³ per person in 2021.
  • Since 2012, when it was 9,755 m³ per person, the figure has changed by −4.5%.
  • The figure for the world in 2022 was 5,393 m³ per person.

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Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AQUASTAT
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.H2O.INTR.PC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1961 to 2022 for OECD members
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AQUASTAT