The Americas have the largest renewable water resources worldwide, at an estimated 25.2 trillion cubic meters as of 2020. This accounted for almost 50 percent of the world's renewable water resources. Brazil alone accounted for more than 30 percent of renewable water resources in the Americas that year, and almost 16 percent of the global total. Asia had an estimated 14.4 trillion cubic meters of renewable water resources available at the time.
Renewable water resources worldwide as of 2020, by region
(in billion cubic meters)
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Values correspond to the theoretical maximum amount of water available for a region at a given time.
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