QoG Data

Aquastat

Data source: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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AQUASTAT is the FAO global information system on water resources and agricultural water management.

Dataset type

Time-Series

Dataset level

Country

Citation

When using this dataset, please cite as:

• FAO. (2021). AQUASTAT database. http://www.fao.org/aquastat/statistics/query/index.html

@misc{aquastat1,
 author = {FAO},
 last_updated = {2024-04-03},
 note = {Date accessed: 10 June 2021},
 title = {AQUASTAT Database},
 url = {http://www.fao.org/aquastat/statistics/query/index.html},
 year = {2021}
}

Variables in this dataset

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Renewable internal freshwater resources (bln m3)

QoG code: as_rifr

Renewable water resources (internal and external) include average annual flow of rivers and recharge of aquifers generated from endogenous precipitation and those water resources that are not generate ...

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Water stress: freshwater withdrawal, proportion of available freshwater

QoG code: as_ws

The level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources is the ratio between total freshwater withdrawn by all major sectors and total renewable freshwater r ...

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