Water Stress in Belize

What this means

Compare freshwater withdrawal as a share of available renewable water resources.

Higher water stress (withdrawals take a larger share of available freshwater); lower water stress (withdrawals take a smaller share of available freshwater).

Methodology & source

Values are World Bank World Development Indicators ER.H2O.FWST.ZS: level of water stress, freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources, from FAO AQUASTAT (SDG indicator 6.4.2). The indicator is total freshwater withdrawn by agriculture, industry, and services divided by total renewable freshwater resources after environmental flow requirements. Total renewable resources include internal runoff and transboundary inflows. Values can exceed 100 percent when withdrawals use non-renewable (fossil) groundwater, exceed annual replenishment, or include water reserved for environmental flows; desalinated water is not counted as freshwater withdrawal. OurBlueDot does not interpolate, fill missing years, or replace missing values with zero. Country rows are joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; regional and income aggregates are excluded. Map ranks are comparable-sample competition ranks among currently loaded countries (rank 1 is the highest water stress). Missing countries remain without a value.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators

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World Bank World Development Indicators ER.H2O.FWST.ZS: level of water stress, freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources, from FAO AQUASTAT (SDG indicator 6.4.2). The indicator is total freshwater withdrawn by agriculture, industry, and services divided by total renewable freshwater resources after environmental flow requirements. Total renewable resources include internal runoff and transboundary inflows. Values can exceed 100 percent when withdrawals use non-renewable (fossil) groundwater, exceed annual replenishment, or include water reserved for environmental flows. Desalinated water is not counted as freshwater withdrawal. OurBlueDot does not interpolate, fill missing years, or replace missing values with zero. Rows are country and economy series joined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; World Bank regional and income aggregates are excluded. Territories outside UN-193 are not added to the country registry. 176 UN members have a finite value in 2012-2021, 175 in 2022, and 172 in 2010-2011. Israel has no 2022 observation. Andorra, Bahamas, Micronesia, Kiribati, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, San Marino, Seychelles, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Samoa have no observation in any advertised year. Costa Rica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sudan, South Sudan have no 2010-2011 observation.