Open water bodies with good ambient water quality
Compare open water bodies with good ambient water quality across 74 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2023 UN SDG Global Database slice.
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Key Insights
- •74 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2023 observation in the selected slice.
- •Bulgaria has the highest published value (100 %).
- •Israel has the lowest published value (0 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 62.4%)
About This Statistic
Proportion of assessed open water bodies classified as having good ambient water quality.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
Proportion of assessed open water bodies classified as having good ambient water quality.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria | 100.0% |
| 2 | Burundi | 100.0% |
| 3 | Croatia | 100.0% |
| 4 | Benin | 100.0% |
| 5 | Dominican Republic | 100.0% |
| 6 | Gabon | 100.0% |
| 7 | Iceland | 100.0% |
| 8 | Liberia | 100.0% |
| 9 | Malawi | 100.0% |
| 10 | Montenegro | 100.0% |
| 11 | Norway | 100.0% |
| 12 | Panama | 100.0% |
| 13 | Russian Federation | 100.0% |
| 14 | Rwanda | 100.0% |
| 15 | Singapore | 100.0% |
| 16 | South Sudan | 100.0% |
| 17 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% |
| 18 | Uganda | 100.0% |
| 19 | United Republic of Tanzania | 100.0% |
| 20 | Samoa | 100.0% |
| 21 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100.0% |
| 22 | Botswana | 100.0% |
| 23 | Belarus | 95.0% |
| 24 | Madagascar | 94.6% |
| 25 | South Korea | 92.5% |
| 26 | Finland | 91.5% |
| 27 | Austria | 90.3% |
| 28 | Cyprus | 87.5% |
| 29 | Morocco | 85.9% |
| 30 | Cote d'Ivoire | 85.7% |
| 31 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 80.0% |
| 32 | Uruguay | 78.5% |
| 33 | People's Republic of China | 73.8% |
| 34 | Türkiye | 71.0% |
| 35 | Brazil | 70.6% |
| 36 | Ireland | 69.0% |
| 37 | Latvia | 68.0% |
| 38 | Greece | 66.7% |
| 39 | Paraguay | 66.7% |
| 40 | France | 66.2% |
| 41 | Turkmenistan | 66.0% |
| 42 | Nigeria | 65.1% |
| 43 | Poland | 63.3% |
| 44 | Mexico | 56.9% |
| 45 | Moldova, Republic of | 56.0% |
| 46 | Azerbaijan | 53.3% |
| 47 | Sweden | 53.0% |
| 48 | Ethiopia | 50.0% |
| 49 | Japan | 50.0% |
| 50 | Kenya | 50.0% |
| 51 | New Zealand | 49.6% |
| 52 | South Africa | 47.0% |
| 53 | United States of America | 45.6% |
| 54 | Hungary | 41.0% |
| 55 | Italy | 36.9% |
| 56 | United Kingdom | 32.0% |
| 57 | Slovenia | 30.0% |
| 58 | Lithuania | 28.2% |
| 59 | Thailand | 25.0% |
| 60 | Peru | 23.5% |
| 61 | Iraq | 23.1% |
| 62 | Lebanon | 20.0% |
| 63 | Netherlands | 11.7% |
| 64 | Estonia | 4.6% |
| 65 | Spain | 3.7% |
| 66 | Israel | 0.0% |
| 67 | Mali | 0.0% |
| 68 | Romania | 0.0% |
| 69 | Serbia | 0.0% |
| 70 | Burkina Faso | 0.0% |
| 71 | Zambia | 0.0% |
| 72 | Albania | 0.0% |
| 73 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.0% |
| 74 | Belgium | 0.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2023).
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