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Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for industry are total withdrawals for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002.

Rank	Country	Value
Annual freshwater withdrawals, industry (% of total freshwater withdrawal) - Freshwater - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Finland	83.60
2	Poland	78.70
3	Bulgaria	78.19
4	Ireland	76.98
5	United Kingdom	75.37
6	France	74.47
7	Switzerland	73.93
8	Canada	68.68
9	Germany	67.86
10	Norway	66.67
11	Austria	63.98
12	Russia	63.46
13	Netherlands	59.95
14	Hungary	58.64
15	Moldova	57.58
16	Czech Republic	56.98
17	Sweden	54.39
18	Euro area	47.70
19	Belarus	46.59
20	United States	46.05
21	High income: OECD	43.69
22	Papua New Guinea	42.25
23	High income	42.23
24	Lesotho	40
25	Estonia	37.97
26	Italy	36.71
27	Ukraine	35.38
28	Romania	34.38
29	Latvia	33.33
30	Europe & Central Asia	29.55
31	Mongolia	27.27
32	Trinidad and Tobago	25.81
33	China	25.70
34	Denmark	25.20
35	Chile	25.18
36	Upper middle income	24.85
37	Vietnam	24.14
38	Benin	23.08
39	Republic of the Congo	21.74
40	Malaysia	21.06
41	East Asia & Pacific	19.74
42	Azerbaijan	19.33
43	Spain	18.52
44	Liberia	18.18
45	Botswana	18.04
46	Brazil	17.96
47	Japan	17.87
48	Costa Rica	17.16
49	Angola	17.14
50	Jamaica	17.07
51	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.67
52	Kazakhstan	16.51
53	North Korea	16.41
54	South Korea	16.41
55	Central African Republic	16
56	El Salvador	15.63
57	Lithuania	14.81
58	Iraq	14.70
59	Middle income	14.18
60	Guatemala	13.43
61	Algeria	13.18
62	Low & middle income	13.17
63	Georgia	12.83
64	Cuba	12.20
65	Portugal	12.17
66	Ivory Coast	11.83
67	Gambia	11.76
68	Lower middle income	11.72
69	Honduras	11.63
70	Lebanon	11.45
71	Albania	11.11
72	Turkey	10.72
73	Latin America & Caribbean	10.36
74	Nigeria	10.11
75	Peru	10.08
76	Australia	10.03
77	Ghana	9.67
78	New Zealand	9.48
79	Argentina	9.46
80	Philippines	9.43
81	Gabon	8.33
82	Paraguay	8.16
83	Cameroon	8.08
84	Rwanda	8
85	Zambia	7.47
86	Zimbabwe	7.09
87	Venezuela	7.05
88	Bolivia	6.88
89	Low income	6.36
90	Middle East & North Africa	6.19
91	South Africa	6.05
92	Burundi	5.90
93	Egypt	5.86
94	Israel	5.78
95	Laos	5.67
96	Bahrain	5.67
97	Mexico	5.48
98	India	5.45
99	Ecuador	5.30
100	Malawi	4.95
101	Panama	4.88
102	Tajikistan	4.68
103	Namibia	4.67
104	Guinea-Bissau	4.57
105	Armenia	4.41
106	South Asia	4.21
107	Tunisia	4.17
108	Jordan	4.08
109	Colombia	3.73
110	Kenya	3.66
111	Syria	3.56
112	High income: nonOECD	3.32
113	Greece	3.22
114	Kyrgyzstan	3.08
115	Libya	3.05
116	Saudi Arabia	3
117	Sub-Saharan Africa	2.94
118	Mauritania	2.94
119	Morocco	2.86
120	Mauritius	2.76
121	Sierra Leone	2.63
122	Senegal	2.61
123	Thailand	2.46
124	Sri Lanka	2.46
125	Togo	2.37
126	Nicaragua	2.31
127	Kuwait	2.28
128	Uzbekistan	2.06
129	Pakistan	2.05
130	Yemen	2
131	Guinea	1.99
132	Qatar	1.80
133	Dominican Republic	1.77
134	United Arab Emirates	1.73
135	Mozambique	1.59
136	Madagascar	1.54
137	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	1.52
138	Oman	1.44
139	Uruguay	1.27
140	Iran	1.18
141	Swaziland	1.15
142	Haiti	1.01
143	Least developed countries: UN classification	0.90
144	Mali	0.86
145	Turkmenistan	0.77
146	Burkina Faso	0.75
147	Sudan	0.70
148	Indonesia	0.68
149	Bangladesh	0.65
150	Nepal	0.59
151	Burma	0.54
152	Cambodia	0.49
153	Tanzania	0.48
154	Niger	0.46
155	Ethiopia	0.38
156	Eritrea	0.17
157	Somalia	0.06
158	Chad	0
159	Afghanistan	0

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