List of countries by oil production

This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2021, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Compared with shorter-term data, the full-year figures are less prone to distortion from periodic maintenance shutdowns and other seasonal cycles. The volumes in the table represent crude oil and lease condensate, the hydrocarbon liquids collected at or near the wellhead. The volumes in the table do not include biofuel. They also do not include the increase in liquid volumes during oil refining ("refinery gain"), or liquids separated from natural gas in gas processing plants (natural gas liquids).[1]

Top 5 oil producing countries 1980-2020
World oil production

Under this definition, total world oil production in 2021 averaged 77,043,680 barrels per day. Approximately 71% came from the top ten countries, and an overlapping 37% came from the thirteen current OPEC members, in the table below.

In recent history, the top three producers have been the United States, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Each of these countries experienced major production declines at different times in the past, but since 2014 all three have been producing near their peak rates of 9 to 11 million barrels per day.[2] Saudi Arabia and Russia also top the list of oil exporting countries.[3] The monthly U.S. oil production reached 12.86 million b/d in November 2019, the highest monthly level of crude oil production in U.S. history.[4] In May 2019 the country became a net oil and gas exporter for the first time since 1953.[5][6]


Country Oil production
2021 (bbl/day)[1]
Oil production per capita
2021 (bbl/day/million people)[6]
 United States 11,184,870 33,556
 Russia 10,111,830 69,689
 Saudi Arabia (OPEC) 9,313,145 265,991
 Canada 4,459,455 114,275
 Iraq (OPEC) 4,084,822 99,172
 China 3,987,677 2,823
 United Arab Emirates (OPEC) 3,091,481 333,062
 Brazil 2,905,121 13,484
 Iran (OPEC) 2,546,336 29,617
 Kuwait (OPEC) 2,527,106 541,020
 Norway 1,775,813 324,349
 Kazakhstan 1,764,463 91,149
 Mexico 1,734,495 13,494
 Nigeria (OPEC) 1,540,991 7,051
 Qatar 1,303,685 465,768
 Libya (OPEC) 1,237,808 181,710
 Algeria (OPEC) 1,133,123 24,959
 Angola (OPEC) 1,127,449 34,076
 Oman 970,816 214,450
 United Kingdom 810,531 12,083
 Colombia 736,351 14,424
 Azerbaijan 710,758 69,648
 Indonesia 658,820 2,389
 India 602,336 438
 Venezuela (OPEC) 594,808 21,016
 Egypt 560,942 5,387
 Malaysia 511,104 15,604
 Argentina 507,337 10,720
 Ecuador 472,873 26,108
 Australia 334,448 12,860
 Republic of the Congo (OPEC) 265,871 44,535
 Turkmenistan 185,891 28,905
 Vietnam 182,146 1,849
 Ghana 179,890 5,835
 Thailand 176,984 2,647
 Gabon (OPEC) 175,041 78,388
 Bahrain 174,883 116,433
 South Sudan 157,122 11,858
 Equatorial Guinea (OPEC) 132,562 88,081
 Guyana 110,200 148,118
 Italy 100,129 1,701
 Brunei 98,178 228,321
 Chad 87,932 5,228
 Pakistan 82,514 350
 Yemen 70,085 2,080
 Sudan 66,912 1,489
 Turkey 66,287 783
 Romania 64,790 3,403
 Denmark 64,124 10,817
 Cameroon 63,203 2,596
 Trinidad and Tobago 59,847 43,748
 Peru 38,391 1,150
 Papua New Guinea 37,233 4,081
 Germany 35,664 424
 Tunisia 35,247 2,986
 Syria 34,151 1,544
 Belarus 33,973 3,670
 Cuba 33,912 3,052
 Ukraine 33,235 753
 Côte d'Ivoire 32,982 1,122
 Netherlands 32,723 1,842
 Bolivia 31,631 2,681
 Democratic Republic of the Congo 22,000 222
 Poland 17,835 470
 Hungary 17,733 1,830
 Mongolia 16,703 4,815
 Albania 16,093 5,687
 Serbia 15,199 2,236
 Suriname 14,833 24,804
 East Timor 14,000 10,622
 France 13,033 192
 Croatia 11,341 2,929
 Austria 10,841 1,196
 New Zealand 8,249 1,607
 Niger 8,000 324
 Myanmar 7,625 138
 Guatemala 6,307 369
 Uzbekistan 5,090 1,418
 Chile 5,000 252
 Japan 4,040 32
 Bangladesh 3,000 18
 Czech Republic 1,687 160
 Greece 1,164 112
 Belize 1,028 2,391
 Barbados 1,000 3,546
 Bulgaria 1,000 153
 Philippines 953 85
 South Africa 950 16
 Kyrgyzstan 706 104
 Lithuania 700 247
 Tajikistan 316 33
 Georgia 296 80
 Taiwan 196 8
 Spain 131 3
 Slovakia 91 17
 Israel 25 3
 Morocco 25 1
World 77,043,680 10,798

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ a b "Annual petroleum and other liquids production". U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retrieved 15 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Monthly Energy Review" (PDF). U.S. Energy Information Administration. 25 May 2017. Figure 11.1a. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  3. ^ "OPEC+ not to increase oil production in April". International Insider. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  4. ^ "U.S. Crude oil production grew 11% in 2019, surpassing 12 million barrels per day".
  5. ^ The US will be a net energy exporter by 2022, four years sooner than expected, Energy Department says CNBC, 7 February 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Total Population - Both Sexes". World Population Prospects, the 2017 Revision. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, Population Estimates and Projections Section. June 2017. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.