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Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct)

Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023 · 164 countries

Baseline water stress compares how much water a country's people, farms and industry withdraw with how much renewable surface and ground water is available, scored from 0 to 5. The World Resources Institute scores each river basin and averages the scores up to the country, weighted by where the water is used.

This site holds one edition, Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023 (the newest describes 2019), read from WRI’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) · the file

Newest
Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023 · describes 2019
Held
1 edition · 164 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

01One edition

Every edition

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that edition, and each downloads as a CSV.

Every edition of Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
EditionDescribesCountriesChangeReadDownload
Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 20232019164—September 29, 2026CSV

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: baseline-water-stress-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

024 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1640
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1640
Baseline water stress (0–5, higher is worse)water_stress_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: Baseline water stress score (0–5).Number · up to 9 decimals0.0000011 share it5.000006 share itmiddle 1.663101490
WRI risk categoryrisk_categoryLabelWRI's band for the score, from Low (under 10% of the supply withdrawn) to Extremely High (over 80%).Text—50

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03164 countries across every edition

Who is covered

How many countries each edition holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each edition of Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct), by continent.
2023
Africa49
Americas26
Asia45
Europe41
Oceania3
All164

One edition, covering 164 countries.

Not in this dataset · 61 places this site covers

WRI gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCabo VerdeCayman IslandsChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandTaiwanTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    World Resources Institute (WRI)

    wri.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Aqueduct 4.0 — Baseline Water Stress

    aqueduct-4-0-country-rankings.zip

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    1 file, one per edition

    It downloads as a CSV: baseline-water-stress-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/baseline-water-stress

Precision

The headline is stored to 9 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct 4.0 country rankings. WRI cautions that its risk indicators are modelled and cannot be validated by direct measurement. Its projections to 2030, 2050 and 2080 are not used.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution)

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

In plain words

The World Resources Institute publishes Aqueduct under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and names CC BY 4.0 as its standard for data.

A credit line

Source: World Resources Institute (WRI), Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct), via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

World Resources Institute (WRI). Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct), Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/baseline-water-stress

The publisher’s own citation: Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. “Aqueduct 4.0: Updated decision-relevant global water risk indicators.” Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi:10.46830/writn.23.00061.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct): questions and answers

What is the Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct)?

Baseline water stress compares how much water a country's people, farms and industry withdraw with how much renewable surface and ground water is available, scored from 0 to 5. The World Resources Institute scores each river basin and averages the scores up to the country, weighted by where the water is used.

Which editions of the Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) can I download?

One: Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023, as a CSV file.

Why does Baseline Water Stress (Aqueduct) 2023 describe 2019?

WRI names each edition for the year it is released, and builds it from figures for an earlier year. Every page here shows both years.

Does WRI rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY, with credit to WRI. The licence text is linked on this page.

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