Countries ranked by safe drinking water

Every country ranked by safe drinking water, highest to lowest. Australia tops the list at 100.0%; Central African Republic is lowest at 6.2%.

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Highest

1Australia100.0%
2Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba100.0%
3Saint Barthelemy100.0%
4Bermuda100.0%
5Brunei100.0%

Lowest

231Central African Republic6.2%
230Chad6.3%
229Tuvalu8.7%
228Sierra Leone10.9%
227Democratic Republic of Congo11.9%

Full ranking — all 231 countries

#	Country	Safe drinking water
1	Australia	100.0%
2	Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba	100.0%
3	Saint Barthelemy	100.0%
4	Bermuda	100.0%
5	Brunei	100.0%
6	Curacao	100.0%
7	Faroe Islands	100.0%
8	Gibraltar	100.0%
9	Greenland	100.0%
10	Hong Kong	100.0%
11	Hungary	100.0%
12	Iceland	100.0%
13	Kuwait	100.0%
14	Liechtenstein	100.0%
15	Macao	100.0%
16	Monaco	100.0%
17	Netherlands	100.0%
18	New Zealand	100.0%
19	Singapore	100.0%
20	San Marino	100.0%
21	Thailand	100.0%
22	Tokelau	100.0%
23	Germany	99.9%
24	Denmark	99.9%
25	Isle of Man	99.9%
26	Mauritius	99.9%
27	British Virgin Islands	99.9%
28	United Kingdom	99.8%
29	Maldives	99.8%
30	Malta	99.8%
31	Sweden	99.8%
32	Cyprus	99.7%
33	France	99.7%
34	Luxembourg	99.7%
35	Cook Islands	99.6%
36	Finland	99.6%
37	Slovakia	99.6%
38	Slovenia	99.6%
39	Uruguay	99.6%
40	Belgium	99.5%
41	Spain	99.5%
42	Israel	99.5%
43	South Korea	99.3%
44	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	99.3%
45	Barbados	99.2%
46	Norway	99.1%
47	Argentina	99.0%
48	Martinique	99.0%
49	Saudi Arabia	99.0%
50	Antigua and Barbuda	98.9%
51	Austria	98.9%
52	Bahrain	98.9%
53	Bahamas	98.9%
54	Estonia	98.9%
55	Puerto Rico	98.9%
56	Japan	98.7%
57	United States Virgin Islands	98.7%
58	United Arab Emirates	98.6%
59	Saint Kitts and Nevis	98.6%
60	Saint Helena	98.4%
61	Czechia	98.1%
62	Saint Lucia	98.1%
63	Montserrat	98.1%
64	Chile	97.8%
65	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	97.7%
66	United States	97.6%
67	Anguilla	97.5%
68	Dominica	97.0%
69	Latvia	97.0%
70	Canada	96.9%
71	New Caledonia	96.9%
72	Italy	96.8%
73	Aruba	96.7%
74	Switzerland	96.7%
75	Guadeloupe	96.7%
76	Greece	96.7%
77	Lithuania	96.7%
78	Saint Martin (French part)	96.6%
79	Libya	96.4%
80	Bulgaria	96.2%
81	China	96.1%
82	Ireland	96.1%
83	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	96.0%
84	Turkey	96.0%
85	Reunion	95.7%
86	Cayman Islands	95.5%
87	Falkland Islands	95.3%
88	Panama	95.3%
89	Qatar	95.3%
90	Portugal	95.2%
91	Cuba	95.1%
92	Turkmenistan	94.9%
93	Belize	94.8%
94	Malaysia	94.7%
95	Iran	94.4%
96	Syria	94.1%
97	Guam	94.0%
98	Bolivia	93.4%
99	Venezuela	93.3%
100	Belarus	93.1%
101	Niue	93.0%
102	Jersey	92.8%
103	Mayotte	92.5%
104	Cape Verde	92.3%
105	French Guiana	92.2%
106	El Salvador	91.6%
107	Kazakhstan	91.5%
108	Oman	91.1%
109	Palau	90.8%
110	Andorra	90.6%
111	American Samoa	90.5%
112	French Polynesia	90.4%
113	Micronesia (country)	89.9%
114	Grenada	89.9%
115	Jordan	89.0%
116	Poland	88.7%
117	Brazil	88.6%
118	Gabon	88.6%
119	Ukraine	87.9%
120	Jamaica	87.6%
121	Marshall Islands	87.4%
122	Croatia	87.3%
123	East Timor	87.3%
124	Namibia	86.5%
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	86.4%
126	Mali	86.4%
127	Montenegro	85.5%
128	Comoros	85.1%
129	Romania	82.2%
130	Armenia	82.1%
131	Uzbekistan	81.9%
132	Northern Mariana Islands	81.5%
133	North Macedonia	80.8%
134	Palestine	80.6%
135	Costa Rica	80.5%
136	Morocco	80.0%
137	Djibouti	79.7%
138	Egypt	78.9%
139	Liberia	78.8%
140	Mauritania	77.3%
141	India	76.4%
142	Russia	76.3%
143	Moldova	75.8%
144	Somalia	75.3%
145	Serbia	75.0%
146	Yemen	75.0%
147	Colombia	74.3%
148	Guinea	74.2%
149	Kyrgyzstan	73.9%
150	Zambia	73.4%
151	Haiti	73.3%
152	Solomon Islands	71.6%
153	Cameroon	71.4%
154	Albania	70.8%
155	Georgia	70.5%
156	Ecuador	69.9%
157	Trinidad and Tobago	69.4%
158	Algeria	69.0%
159	Wallis and Futuna	68.9%
160	Angola	68.0%
161	South Africa	68.0%
162	Guyana	67.2%
163	North Korea	66.6%
164	Burundi	65.9%
165	Bhutan	65.6%
166	Kenya	65.6%
167	Honduras	65.5%
168	Tajikistan	65.1%
169	Tunisia	65.0%
170	Sudan	64.9%
171	Equatorial Guinea	64.7%
172	Seychelles	64.7%
173	Paraguay	64.4%
174	Botswana	63.3%
175	Samoa	62.5%
176	Rwanda	61.4%
177	Iraq	59.8%
178	Myanmar	59.7%
179	Bangladesh	59.1%
180	Vietnam	58.6%
181	Azerbaijan	57.8%
182	Suriname	55.8%
183	Niger	53.4%
184	Papua New Guinea	53.3%
185	Eritrea	51.8%
186	Burkina Faso	50.0%
187	Peru	49.4%
188	Guatemala	48.8%
189	Philippines	48.5%
190	Gambia	48.2%
191	Lebanon	47.7%
192	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.0%
193	Sri Lanka	46.9%
194	Congo	45.9%
195	Dominican Republic	45.3%
196	Pakistan	45.0%
197	Mongolia	43.4%
198	Mexico	43.0%
199	Ghana	42.9%
200	Fiji	42.1%
201	South Sudan	39.7%
202	Eswatini	38.2%
203	Sao Tome and Principe	36.7%
204	Cote d'Ivoire	36.4%
205	Laos	35.2%
206	Lesotho	31.3%
207	Tanzania	31.3%
208	Afghanistan	30.6%
209	Indonesia	30.5%
210	Cambodia	30.0%
211	Nigeria	29.9%
212	Tonga	29.6%
213	Mozambique	27.5%
214	Senegal	27.2%
215	Zimbabwe	25.5%
216	Guinea-Bissau	24.0%
217	Madagascar	22.1%
218	Togo	20.5%
219	Vanuatu	19.2%
220	Nauru	18.7%
221	Malawi	18.2%
222	Uganda	18.1%
223	Benin	17.7%
224	Nepal	16.5%
225	Kiribati	15.1%
226	Ethiopia	13.5%
227	Democratic Republic of Congo	11.9%
228	Sierra Leone	10.9%
229	Tuvalu	8.7%
230	Chad	6.3%
231	Central African Republic	6.2%

Common questions

Which country has the highest safe drinking water?

Australia, at 100.0% — the highest of all 231 countries with data.

Which country has the lowest safe drinking water?

Central African Republic, at 6.2%, ranks lowest among the 231 countries in this list.

How many countries are ranked?

231 countries and territories with recent data are included, ordered from highest to lowest.

Where does the data come from?

WHO/UNICEF JMP (via Our World in Data). The ranking updates as new data is published.

Source: WHO/UNICEF JMP (via Our World in Data). See the data on the interactive safe drinking water map, or browse all country rankings.

Last updated: 3 August 2026.