Djibouti
Capital: Djibouti · Lower middle income · Pop. 1.2 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT)
Sanitation tracks closely: 39.66% use safely managed sanitation services and 67.02% have at least a basic service (2023).
Djibouti has about 264 cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater per person each year — below the ~1,000 m³ threshold widely used to define water scarcity. It withdraws the equivalent of 6% of those internal resources annually (low water stress).
Agriculture accounts for about 16% of Djibouti's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in Djibouti have safe drinking water?
Comprehensive safely-managed drinking-water data is not available for Djibouti; basic-service estimates may exist.
Does Djibouti have enough freshwater?
Djibouti has roughly 264 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 6% of it annually (low stress).