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Table indicating the amount of water available to each person in the world by country in 1995.
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Area

Population

Water resources km3/year

Potential water availability

Countries

in mln.km2

in mln.

Inflow

Local

(in 1000m3/year)

1995

Average

Max

Min

Cv

Average

Max

Min

Cv

per km2

per capita

Albania

0.03

3.60

5.30

10.0

3.30

0.20

19.1

34.3

11.9

0.20

637

6.04

Argentina

2.78

34.2

623

1410

343

0.27

270

610

149

0.27

97.1

17.0

Armenia

0.03

3.55

2.06

3.50

0.68

0.29

6.58

9.21

4.60

0.13

219

2.14

Australia

7.68

17.9

0

0

0

0

352

701

228

0.24

45.8

19.7

Azerbaijan

0.09

7.47

20.4

32.4

12.4

0.19

7.56

12.6

5.13

0.17

84.0

2.38

Belarus

0.21

10.3

22.4

34.2

13.2

0.22

34.8

58.8

20.4

0.23

166

4.36

Bolivia

1.10

7.20

155

209

120

0.13

361

487

279

0.13

328

60.9

Brazil

8.51

159

1900

2350

1600

0.08

6220

7640

5200

0.08

730

45.2

Canada

9.98

28.0

130

166

99.4

0.12

3287

3760

2910

0.06

329

120

Chad

1.28

6.18

36.6

59.2

3.70

0.31

10.4

13.2

7.1

0.13

8.12

4.64

Chile

0.76

14.0

0

0

0

0

354

515

266

0.13

466

25.3

China

9.60

1209

0

0

0

0

2701

3455

2015

0.12

281

2.23

Colombia

1.14

34.3

0

0

0

0

1200

1436

1049

0.06

1053

35.0

Costa Rica

0.05

3.42

0

0

0

0

110

158

75.0

0.16

2200

32.1

Cuba

0.11

11.1

0

0

0

0

34.7

48.5

24.2

0.16

315

3.11

Ecuador

0.28

11.2

0

0

0

0

265

324

197

0.07

946

23.7

El Salvador

0.02

5.2

0

0

0

0

18.9

27.4

10.2

0.16

945

3.65

Estonia

0.05

1.54

5.01

13.9

2.20

0.33

11.7

22.2

6.2

0.28

234

9.22

France

0.55

56.8

26.8

38.6

11.9

0.23

168

232

78.1

0.23

305

3.19

Gabon

0.27

1.28

15.6

21.0

10.3

0.15

205

272

133

0.15

759

166

Gambia

0.01

1.08

6.70

9.62

2.10

0.28

3.97

5.69

1.24

0.28

397

6.78

Georgia

0.07

5.45

9.56

14.4

5.85

0.17

51.1

66.3

38.5

0.13

730

10.2

Honduras

0.11

5.49

0

0

0

0

93

128

66.2

0.14

845

17.3

India

3.27

919

581

697

508

0.03

1456

1794

1065

0.11

445

1.90

Jamaica

0.01

2.43

0

0

0

0

8.20

16.0

3.88

0.29

820

3.42

Kazakhstan

2.72

16.7

55.9

97.0

29.7

0.29

68.4

111

38.0

0.28

25.1

5.77

Kyrgizstan

0.20

4.67

0

0

0

0

48.9

71.6

37.3

0.15

245

10.5

Latvia

0.06

2.58

17.4

27.8

10.3

0.24

15.9

27.0

8.90

0.27

265

9.53

Lithuania

0.07

3.72

10.4

16.1

7.10

0.17

13.5

21.9

7.90

0.24

193

5.03

Mali

1.24

10.5

54.8

81.5

21.8

0.27

39.6

62.2

18.4

0.32

31.9

6.38

Mexico

1.97

94.8

2.51

5.20

0.30

0.38

345

476

236

0.12

175

3.67

Moldova

0.03

4.43

11.9

21.4

5.46

0.30

1.20

3.59

0.19

0.65

40.0

1.61

Nicaragua

0.13

4.50

0

0

0

0

176

226

134

0.13

1354

39.1

Niger

1.27

8.85

32.1

47.2

13.7

0.24

2.33

5.40

0.28

0.43

1.83

2.08

Nigeria

0.92

108

43.7

69.4

23.4

0.26

275

437

148

0.26

299

2.75

New Zealand

0.27

3.50

0

0

0

0

313

405

246

0.11

1159

89.4

Panama

0.08

2.60

0

0

0

0

144

196

98.0

0.17

1800

55.4

Peru

1.28

23.3

144

204

119

0.09

1100

1526

911

0.09

859

50.3

Portugal

0.09

9.93

34.1

101

10

0.55

18.9

56.0

5.00

0.55

210

3.62

Russia

17.08

148

222

330

144

0.17

4053

4513

3533

0.05

237

28.1

Senegal

0.20

8.1

14.9

21.9

5.27

0.30

21.4

31.1

6.31

0.28

107

3.56

Spain

0.51

39.6

0

0

0

0

109

256

27.7

0.48

214

2.75

Sudan

2.51

27.4

132

194

88.7

0.14

34.6

65.3

9.74

0.31

13.8

3.67

Tadjikistan

0.15

5.93

46.9

70.4

30.7

0.16

47.2

69.7

30.4

0.15

315

11.9

Turkmenistan

0.49

4.01

69.6

112

43.1

0.17

1.07

1.66

0.20

0.26

2.18

8.94

Ukraine

0.60

51.4

159

233

91.8

0.17

51.2

91.9

25.6

0.30

85.3

2.54

Uruguay

0.18

3.20

74.1

150

25.0

0.38

68.1

201

10.3

0.50

378

32.9

USA

9.36

262

148

178

107

0.13

2930

3864

2058

0.11

313

11.5

Uzbekistan

0.45

20.3

94.8

142

66.1

0.15

9.52

19.7

4.98

0.25

21.2

2.80

Zaire

2.34

42.6

313

420

248

0.10

989

1328

786

0.10

423

26.9

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