Israel
High income · Pop. 10.0 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT) · drinking water 2024
In Israel, 99.46% of the population uses safely managed drinking water — an improved source, located on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination (2024 estimate). That leaves roughly 53,862 people without safely managed drinking water at home.
Sanitation tracks closely: 97.17% use safely managed sanitation services and 99.92% have at least a basic service (2024).
Israel has about 80 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 204% of those internal resources annually (extreme (over-extraction) water stress), meaning it relies on rivers from outside its borders, desalination, or drawing down stored reserves.
Agriculture accounts for about 48% of Israel's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in Israel have safe drinking water?
99.46% of Israel's population uses safely managed drinking water (2024), per WHO/UNICEF data; about 53,862 people do not.
Does Israel have enough freshwater?
Israel has roughly 80 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 204% of it annually (extreme (over-extraction) stress).