List of countries by average annual precipitation

Countries by average annual precipitation

This is a list of countries by average annual precipitation .

List

Per the World Bank (2017) ^{[1] [2]}

	Country	mm/ year)	Continent
1	Colombia	3,240	South America
2	São Tomé and Príncipe	3,200	Africa
	Tuvalu	3,200	Oceania
4	Papua New Guinea	3,142	Oceania
5	Solomon Islands	3,028	Oceania
6	Panama	2,928	Central America
7	Costa Rica	2,926	Central America
8	Samoa	2,880	Oceania
9	Malaysia	2,875	Asia
10	Brunei	2,722	Asia
11	Indonesia	2,702	Asia
12	Bangladesh	2,666	Asia
13	Fiji	2,592	Oceania
14	Sierra Leone	2,526	Africa
15	Singapore	2,497	Asia
16	Liberia	2,391	Africa
17	Guyana	2,387	South America
18	Grenada [a]	2,350	North America
19	Philippines	2,348	Asia
20	Suriname	2,331	South America
21	Seychelles	2,330	Africa
22	Saint Lucia	2,301	North America
23	Nicaragua	2,280	Central America
24	Ecuador	2,274	South America
25	Bhutan	2,200	Asia
25	Trinidad and Tobago	2,200	North America
27	Equatorial Guinea	2,156	Africa
28	Myanmar	2,091	Asia
29	Dominica	2,083	North America
30	Puerto Rico	2,054	North America
31	Jamaica	2,051	North America
32	Venezuela	2,044	South America
33	Mauritius	2,041	Africa
34	Vanuatu	2,000	Oceania
35	Guatemala	1,996	Central America
36	Honduras	1,976	Central America
37	Maldives	1,972	Asia
38	Iceland	1,940	Europe
39	Cambodia	1,904	Asia
40	Laos	1,834	Asia
41	Gabon	1,831	Africa
42	Vietnam	1,821	Asia
43	El Salvador	1,784	Central America
44	Brazil	1,761	South America
45	Peru	1,738	South America
46	New Zealand	1,732	Oceania
47	Sri Lanka	1,712	Asia
48	Belize	1,705	North America
49	Japan	1,668	Asia
50	Guinea	1,651	Africa
51	Congo	1,646	Africa
52	Thailand	1,622	Asia
53	Cameroon	1,604	Africa
54	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,583	North America
55	Guinea-Bissau	1,577	Africa
56	DR Congo	1,543	Africa
57	Switzerland	1,537	Europe
58	Chile	1,522	South America
59	Madagascar	1,513	Africa
60	Timor-Leste	1,500	Asia
60	Nepal	1,500	Asia
62	Albania	1,485	Europe
63	Haiti	1,440	North America
64	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,427	North America
65	Barbados	1,422	North America
66	Norway	1,414	Europe
67	Dominican Republic	1,410	North America
68	Ivory Coast	1,348	Africa
69	Central African Republic	1,343	Africa
70	Cuba	1,335	North America
71	Uruguay	1,300	South America
72	Bahamas	1,292	North America
73	Burundi	1,274	Africa
73	South Korea	1,274	Asia
75	United Kingdom	1,220	Europe
76	Rwanda	1,212	Africa
77	Ghana	1,187	Africa
78	Malawi	1,181	Africa
79	Uganda	1,180	Africa
80	Togo	1,168	Africa
81	Slovenia	1,162	Europe
82	Nigeria	1,150	Africa
83	Bolivia	1,146	South America
84	Paraguay	1,130	South America
85	Ireland	1,118	Europe
86	Croatia	1,113	Europe
87	Austria	1,110	Europe
88	India	1,083	Asia
89	Tanzania	1,071	Africa
90	North Korea	1,054	Asia
91	Benin	1,039	Africa
92	Mozambique	1,032	Africa
93	Antigua and Barbuda	1,030	North America
94	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,028	Europe
95	Georgia	1,026	Asia
96	Zambia	1,020	Africa
97	Angola	1,010	Africa
98	Luxembourg	934	Europe
99	Comoros	900	Africa
100	South Sudan	900	Africa
101	France	867	Europe
102	Portugal	854	Europe
103	Ethiopia	848	Africa
104	Belgium	847	Europe
105	Gambia	836	Africa
106	Italy	832	Europe
107	Slovakia	824	Europe
108	Eswatini	788	Africa
108	Lesotho	788	Africa
110	Netherlands	778	Europe
111	Mexico	758	North America
112	Burkina Faso	748	Africa
113	United States	715	North America
114	Denmark	703	Europe
115	Germany	700	Europe
116	Tajikistan	691	Asia
117	Senegal	686	Africa
118	Czech Republic	677	Europe
119	Latvia	667	Europe
120	Lebanon	661	Asia
121	Zimbabwe	657	Africa
122	Lithuania	656	Europe
123	Greece	652	Europe
124	China	645	Asia
125	Romania	637	Europe
126	Spain	636	Europe
127	Kenya	630	Africa
128	Estonia	626	Europe
129	Sweden	624	Europe
130	North Macedonia	619	Europe
131	Belarus	618	Europe
132	Bulgaria	608	Europe
133	Poland	600	Europe
134	Turkey	593	Europe-Asia
135	Argentina	591	South America
136	Hungary	589	Europe
137	Ukraine	565	Europe
138	Armenia	562	Asia
139	Malta	560	Europe
140	Canada	537	North America
141	Finland	536	Europe
142	Australia	534	Oceania
143	Kyrgyzstan	533	Asia
144	Cyprus	498	Asia
145	South Africa	495	Africa
146	Pakistan	494	Asia
147	Russia	460	Europe-Asia
148	Moldova	450	Europe
149	Azerbaijan	447	Asia
150	Israel	435	Asia
151	Botswana	416	Africa
152	Palestine [b]	402	Asia
153	Eritrea	384	Africa
154	Morocco	346	Africa
155	Afghanistan	327	Asia
156	Chad	322	Africa
157	Namibia	285	Africa
158	Mali	282	Africa
158	Somalia	282	Africa
160	Syria	252	Asia
161	Kazakhstan	250	Asia
161	Sudan	250	Africa
163	Mongolia	241	Asia
164	Cape Verde	228	Africa
164	Iran	228	Asia
166	Djibouti	220	Africa
167	Iraq	216	Asia
168	Tunisia	207	Africa
169	Uzbekistan	206	Asia
170	Yemen	167	Asia
171	Turkmenistan	161	Asia
172	Niger	151	Africa
173	Oman	125	Asia
174	Kuwait	121	Asia
175	Jordan	111	Asia
176	Mauritania	92	Africa
177	Algeria	89	Africa
178	Bahrain	83	Asia
179	United Arab Emirates	78	Asia
180	Qatar	74	Asia
181	Saudi Arabia	59	Asia
182	Libya	56	Africa
183	Egypt	18	Africa

See also

• List of countries by average yearly temperature.

Notes

1. Grenada's latest measurement was in 2014.
2. Palestine's latest measurement was in 2014.

References

1. "Average precipitation in depth (mm per year) | Data". data.worldbank.org.
2. "The Top 10 Countries With The Most Rainfall In The World". IMP. 2021-11-01. Retrieved 2022-06-22.