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Reading no. 2024/082

EnvironmentObserved dataAnnual fixture: World Water Day

Renewable freshwater per inhabitant in the Pacific

78,505m³ per inhabitant

Pacific

Papua New GuineaNew ZealandSolomon IslandsVanuatuFijiAustraliaNauru

Renewable internal freshwater resources per inhabitant, latest known year of each territory up to 2022: ranking of the Pacific territories with data.

  1. Papua New Guinea78,505
  2. New Zealand64,349
  3. Solomon Islands57,229
  4. Vanuatu31,944
  5. Fiji31,052
  6. Australia18,909
  7. Nauru847

The first territory of the ranking, Papua New Guinea, has 78,505 m³ of renewable freshwater per inhabitant per year.

Observation

Method

World Bank indicator ER.H2O.INTR.PC, read for seventeen territories of the Pacific from 2018 to 2022. The latest published value of each is kept, then the ten highest are ranked.

Source

Nature

Observed data

Value read at the source and reproduced without processing.

Recurring annual series. This reading is published every year on this date.

Confidence

Medium

See also

2025/053 · 22 Feb327,210tCapture fisheries production declared by Pacific territories2024/054 · 23 Feb346,825tonnesDeclared capture fisheries, Pacific2026/249 · 6 Sep47,204,374inhabitantsPopulation of Pacific countries and territories2025/325 · 21 Nov327,210tCapture fisheries production by territory, Pacific

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