List of rivers by discharge

This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate.

It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric.

The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second.

The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2×106 m3/s (43 million cu ft/s),[1] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.

The global annual runoff into the oceans (38,500–44,200 km3/year) is dominated by runoff into the South Atlantic from eastern South America, into the western Pacific from east Asia, and into the Indian Ocean from India, and southeast Asia.