Chart of the Day: World Resources by Country

The World Bank's PSD blog passes on this neat chart showing world resources by country. It's a bit easy to jump to conclusions without appreciating the underlying detail, though.

Another interesting observation is that Brazil has almost 20 percent of the world's water resources (roughly on par with Saudi Arabia's share of oil reserves). Perhaps another reason to study Portuguese?

I imagine most of Brazil's water resources are in the Amazon basin and the Pantanal, though, where they're not currently being used for agriculture (responsible for ~70% of human water use, and probably more in ag powerhouse Brazil) and couldn't be without major environmental damage.