China

East Asia

Spain

Europe

Mauritania

None

United States

Mexico

North America

India

South Asia

Jordan

Morocco

Iran

Libya

Southwest Asia and North Africa

A map shows areas of heavy groundwater extraction worldwide, marked with blue shaded dots. Highest extraction areas include the United States, Mexico, China, and India.

Locations where groundwater systems experience levels of extraction exceeding recharge rates over a limited period of time

Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction

World

Die Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Australia

New Zealand

Australia & Oceania

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Mongolia

Nepal

North Korea

South Korea

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Gibraltar (U.K.)

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Latin America

Curaçao (Neth.)

Mauritius

Canada

Bangladesh

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Bahrain

Egypt

Iraq

Israel

Kuwait

Lebanon

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Syria

Tunisia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Cameroon

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of Congo

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Gabon

Ghana

Kenya

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Senegal

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Sub-Saharan Africa

Total energy derived from hydropower in percentage. Dark blue (more than 75 percent): Ethiopia, Congo. Blue to light blue (5 to 75 percent): Most of South America, U S A, China, India, and Russia. Very light blue (0 to 4 percent): Algeria, Saudi Arabia.

Hydroelectricity as a percentage of total energy production

Countries

World Bank

Total Energy Derived from Hydropower 

Percent

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Gambia

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Sierra Leone

A map highlights E C O W A S members highlighted in blue. Some of the Countries are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Member states of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic integration among its members

Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction	Total Energy Derived from Hydropower			Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members
Areas of Heavy Groundwater Extraction	Class	Rank	Percent	Value



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