***Oil Consumption rankings - barrels per day by country

by whataboutbob
Sun Jul 30th, 2006 at 08:31:16 AM EST

 From Nation-master statistics, here's some data to chew on: Oil consumption by country

DEFINITION: Quantity consumed per day, given in millions of barrels.


Rank   Countries   Amount  (top to bottom)

   
#1   United States 20,030,000 barrels per day    
#2   China 6,391,000 barrels per day    
#3   Japan 5,578,000 barrels per day    
#4   Russia 2,800,000 barrels per day    
#5   Germany 2,677,000 barrels per day    
#6   India 2,320,000 barrels per day    
#7   Canada 2,193,000 barrels per day    
#8   Korea, South 2,168,000 barrels per day    
#9   Brazil 2,100,000 barrels per day    
#10   France 2,060,000 barrels per day    
#11   Italy 1,874,000 barrels per day    
#12   Saudi Arabia 1,775,000 barrels per day    
#13   Mexico 1,752,000 barrels per day    
#14   United Kingdom 1,722,000 barrels per day    
#15   Spain 1,544,000 barrels per day

The rest below...


   
#16   Iran 1,425,000 barrels per day    
#17   Indonesia 1,155,000 barrels per day    
#18   Netherlands 920,000 barrels per day    
#19   Taiwan 915,000 barrels per day    
#20   Australia 875,600 barrels per day    
#21   Thailand 851,000 barrels per day    
#22   Turkey 715,100 barrels per day    
#23   Singapore 705,000 barrels per day    
#24   Belgium 624,200 barrels per day    
#25   Egypt 566,000 barrels per day    
#26   Venezuela 530,000 barrels per day    
#27   Malaysia 510,000 barrels per day    
#28   South Africa 484,000 barrels per day    
#29   Poland 476,200 barrels per day    
#30   Argentina 450,000 barrels per day    
#31   Greece 435,700 barrels per day    
#32   Ukraine 401,000 barrels per day    
#33   Pakistan 365,000 barrels per day    
#34   Iraq 351,500 barrels per day    
#35   Sweden 346,100 barrels per day    
#36   Philippines 335,000 barrels per day    
#37   Portugal 326,500 barrels per day    
#38   United Arab Emirates 310,000 barrels per day    
#39   Nigeria 310,000 barrels per day    
#40   Kuwait 305,000 barrels per day    
#41   Austria 286,200 barrels per day    
#42   Israel 270,100 barrels per day    
#43   Colombia 270,000 barrels per day    
#44   Hong Kong 260,000 barrels per day    
#45   Switzerland 258,900 barrels per day    
#46   Norway 257,200 barrels per day    
#47   Belarus 252,000 barrels per day    
#48   Syria 240,000 barrels per day    
#49   Libya 236,000 barrels per day    
#50   Romania 235,000 barrels per day    
#51   Algeria 232,000 barrels per day    
#52   Chile 228,000 barrels per day    
#53   Kazakhstan 221,000 barrels per day    
#54   Finland 219,700 barrels per day    
#55   Puerto Rico 218,000 barrels per day    
#56   Vietnam 216,000 barrels per day    
#57   Cuba 205,000 barrels per day    
#58   Denmark 188,300 barrels per day    
#59   Czech Republic 185,200 barrels per day    
#60   Ireland 175,600 barrels per day    
#61   Morocco 158,000 barrels per day    
#62   Peru 157,000 barrels per day    
#63   Ecuador 155,000 barrels per day    
#64   New Zealand 151,900 barrels per day    
#65   Hungary 134,100 barrels per day    
#66   Dominican Republic 128,000 barrels per day    
#67   Azerbaijan 123,000 barrels per day    
#68   Uzbekistan 120,000 barrels per day    
#69   Bulgaria 107,000 barrels per day    
#70   Virgin Islands 105,000 barrels per day    
#71   Jordan 103,000 barrels per day    
#72   Lebanon 102,000 barrels per day    
#73   Croatia 90,000 barrels per day    
#74   Tunisia 90,000 barrels per day    
#75   Lithuania 89,000 barrels per day    
#76   Serbia and Montenegro 85,000 barrels per day    
#77   Bangladesh 84,000 barrels per day    
#78   Turkmenistan 80,000 barrels per day    
#79   Yemen 80,000 barrels per day    
#80   Sri Lanka 79,000 barrels per day    
#81   Panama 78,000 barrels per day    
#82   Netherlands Antilles 72,500 barrels per day    
#83   Slovakia 71,400 barrels per day    
#84   Sudan 70,000 barrels per day    
#85   Jamaica 69,000 barrels per day    
#86   Guatemala 66,000 barrels per day    
#87   Oman 62,000 barrels per day    
#88   Luxembourg 55,700 barrels per day    
#89   Cyprus 52,000 barrels per day    
#90   Kenya 52,000 barrels per day    
#91   Slovenia 52,000 barrels per day    
#92   Bolivia 48,000 barrels per day    
#93   Angola 46,000 barrels per day    
#94   Armenia 40,000 barrels per day    
#95   Costa Rica 40,000 barrels per day    
#96   El Salvador 40,000 barrels per day    
#97   Ghana 39,000 barrels per day    
#98   Uruguay 38,000 barrels per day    
#99   Moldova 37,000 barrels per day    
#100   Honduras 37,000 barrels per day    
#101   Qatar 33,000 barrels per day    
#102   Burma 32,000 barrels per day    
#103   Senegal 31,000 barrels per day    
#104   Latvia 29,000 barrels per day    
#105   Trinidad and Tobago 29,000 barrels per day    
#106   Ethiopia 27,000 barrels per day    
#107   Bahrain 26,000 barrels per day    
#108   Nicaragua 25,200 barrels per day    
#109   Tajikistan 25,000 barrels per day    
#110   Korea, North 25,000 barrels per day    
#111   Estonia 25,000 barrels per day    
#112   Paraguay 25,000 barrels per day    
#113   Mauritania 24,000 barrels per day    
#114   Gibraltar 23,500 barrels per day    
#115   Bahamas, The 23,000 barrels per day
#116   Cameroon 23,000 barrels per day    
#117   Zimbabwe 22,500 barrels per day    
#118   Tanzania 22,000 barrels per day    
#119   Mauritius 21,000 barrels per day    
#120   Macedonia, Republic of 21,000 barrels per day    
#121   Bosnia and Herzegovina 21,000 barrels per day    
#122   Côte d'Ivoire 20,000 barrels per day    
#123   Guam 19,000 barrels per day    
#124   Réunion 18,500 barrels per day    
#125   Malta 18,000 barrels per day    
#126   Iceland 17,280 barrels per day    
#127   Namibia 16,000 barrels per day    
#128   Nepal 15,400 barrels per day    
#129   Papua New Guinea 15,000 barrels per day    
#130   Madagascar 15,000 barrels per day    
#131   Suriname 14,000 barrels per day    
#132   Martinique 13,800 barrels per day    
#133   Georgia 13,000 barrels per day    
#134   Guadeloupe 13,000 barrels per day    
#135   Gabon 12,250 barrels per day    
#136   Zambia 12,250 barrels per day    
#137   Benin 12,000 barrels per day    
#138   Botswana 12,000 barrels per day    
#139   Brunei 12,000 barrels per day    
#140   Djibouti 12,000 barrels per day    
#141   Macau 12,000 barrels per day    
#142   Haiti 11,800 barrels per day    
#143   Guyana 11,300 barrels per day    
#144   Kyrgyzstan 11,000 barrels per day    
#145   Mozambique 11,000 barrels per day    
#146   Mongolia 11,000 barrels per day    
#147   Fiji 10,000 barrels per day    
#148   New Caledonia 10,000 barrels per day    
#149   Barbados 10,000 barrels per day    
#150   Uganda 10,000 barrels per day    
#151   Togo 8,500 barrels per day    
#152   Guinea 8,400 barrels per day    
#153   Congo, Democratic Republic of the 8,300 barrels per day    
#154   Burkina Faso 8,000 barrels per day    
#155   Seychelles 7,600 barrels per day    
#156   Albania 7,500 barrels per day    
#157   French Guiana 6,600 barrels per day    
#158   Sierra Leone 6,510 barrels per day    
#159   Aruba 6,500 barrels per day    
#160   Belize 6,000 barrels per day    
#161   Rwanda 6,000 barrels per day    
#162   Malawi 5,450 barrels per day    
#163   Niger 5,400 barrels per day    
#164   Congo, Republic of the 5,200 barrels per day    
#165   Afghanistan 5,000 barrels per day    
#166   Somalia 5,000 barrels per day    
#167   French Polynesia 4,800 barrels per day    
#168   Eritrea 4,600 barrels per day    
#169   Faroe Islands 4,500 barrels per day    
#170   Mali 4,250 barrels per day    
#171   American Samoa 4,000 barrels per day    
#172   Bermuda 4,000 barrels per day    
#173   Maldives 4,000 barrels per day    
#174   Greenland 3,850 barrels per day    
#175   Cambodia 3,700 barrels per day    
#176   Antigua and Barbuda 3,600 barrels per day    
#177   Swaziland 3,500 barrels per day    
#178   Liberia 3,400 barrels per day    
#179   Burundi 3,000 barrels per day    
#180   Laos 2,950 barrels per day    
#181   Saint Lucia 2,520 barrels per day    
#182   Guinea-Bissau 2,450 barrels per day    
#183   Cayman Islands 2,450 barrels per day    
#184   Central African Republic 2,400 barrels per day    
#185   Gambia, The 2,000 barrels per day    
#186   Grenada 1,800 barrels per day    
#187   Western Sahara 1,750 barrels per day    
#188   Chad 1,450 barrels per day    
#189   Lesotho 1,400 barrels per day    
#190   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1,300 barrels per day    
#191   Solomon Islands 1,270 barrels per day    
#192   Cape Verde 1,200 barrels per day    
#193   Equatorial Guinea 1,200 barrels per day    
#194   Bhutan 1,100 barrels per day    
#195   Nauru 1,000 barrels per day    
#196   Samoa 1,000 barrels per day    
#197   Dominica 800 barrels per day    
#198   Tonga 800 barrels per day    
#199   Comoros 700 barrels per day    
#200   Saint Kitts and Nevis 700 barrels per day    
#201   São Tomé and Príncipe 650 barrels per day    
#202   Vanuatu 620 barrels per day    
#203   Saint Pierre and Miquelon 480 barrels per day    
#204   British Virgin Islands 410 barrels per day    
#205   Cook Islands 400 barrels per day    
#206   Montserrat 380 barrels per day    
#207   Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 200 barrels per day    
#208   Kiribati 200 barrels per day    
#209   Saint Helena 100 barrels per day    
#210   Turks and Caicos Islands 80 barrels per day    
#211   Niue 20 barrels per day

   
 Total: 80,727,420 barrels per day
 
 Weighted average: 382,594.4 barrels per day

   

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 10 January 2005 via NationMaster (so this is 1.5 years old)

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There is a LOT to chew on here. For example, the US uses 3x more oil a day than #2 China (though maybe this is changing, what with China consuming more...). And do these numbers include gas & oil consumption by the US military?

Also, I find myself wondering if there are  numbers for other types of energy consumed...nucleur, wind, solar, water power, etc., and then compare those with these, etc.

Anyway, IF there are big changes in oil availability, the high users will be the hardest hit, I would assume anyway...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 06:42:59 AM EST
You can also look at the consumption per capita (click on the "per capita" tab. There are tons of other Energy Statistics (just click on the link and enjoy the list).

The high users are the ones that can absorb a given change in availability with the least percentage change. Which is why it makes a lot of sense to pressure the US about oil consumption.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 06:50:52 AM EST
[ Parent ]
By the way, one of the advantages (for us) of the wikipedia lists is that they generally include the aggregate EU amounts (about 14.5 Mb/day)

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 06:54:45 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Grat!!

observe that the US with moreefficient cars (a la Europe) could reduce strongly the consumption and keep the demand of oil constant,even with china and India using more oil. A cut of 4 million barrels in US is without doubt the most flexible part of the demand....and there we go...oil high in dollar but constnat in euros???

I hope my wishes come true and we are for a smooth transition to a constant production rate...(if US does not bomb Iran...)

Another interesting statistics would be to know the national production of each country. to know on how much oil can each country rely on..if things go badly.

And another important one will be the amount of oil the oil companies have (per country of headquarter). This last will be tough since lots of them are operating in some countries...but just to know how much Oil Repsol has...

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 07:06:25 AM EST
The US issue has already been commented, so now look at this.

#5   Germany 2,677,000 barrels per day

Big economy, reasonably efficient, let's use it as a benchmark.    

#4   Russia 2,800,000 barrels per day

Considering the small economic output of Russia, this does seem damn wasteful. Large potential for conservation. Is gasoline subsidized in Russia?

By the way, maybe consumption is pushed upwards due to a large refinery sector which while consuming lots of crude also exports lots of diesel and gasoline?

#7   Canada 2,193,000 barrels per day    

Damn wasteful too, compared to France which is twice the population at the same GDP.

#10   France 2,060,000 barrels per day    



Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 07:14:00 AM EST
Check out Primary energy consumption (per capita and per $GDP).

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 07:49:39 AM EST
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what about such important factors as country's territory and climate?

If you take for every country  its oil consumption per capita, per GDP, per area (say, in square metres) and add some coefficient connected with climatic zone (say a 10.0 for the countries with the most favourable weather which will include the bulk of Central/Western Europe and put a 1.0 for the country with the worst climate - Russia and put the rest of world in between)
...er... and why do i want to multiply all this, not that i know anything about non-linear stuff... ah well, then you will get figures which may show another picture (very simplistic but anyway) of the worst natural resource wasters in the world

I am even not sure that the US will be the number one offenders

by lana on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 08:39:31 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Well, if you pick your weightings like that ... and why pick area as a factor? Consumption per capita's (and maybe per capita gdp) more interesting than total consumption, but the rest tends to hide complicated factors.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 08:48:07 AM EST
[ Parent ]
You could use area per capita as an indication of wastefulness.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 08:55:52 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Total consumption makes a lot of sense to evaluate the global impact of an individual government's policy. For instace, a 10% change in US consumption is more than enough to provide all of Italy's oil. If you look at oil consumption per capita, you'll find the Virgin Islands, Gibraltar and Singapore are the worst offenders. That tells you keeping a microstate going is expensive, but eliminating them would not solve any of the world's global energy problems.

So, first use the aggregate figures to find which political agents are associated with the biggest impacts, and then use the normalised figures to see which of those are inefficient.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 09:15:16 AM EST
[ Parent ]
South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore are pretty wasteful compared to their size. The Netherlands consumes more than Australia as well...
by das monde on Sun Jul 30th, 2006 at 10:45:43 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Check this out: Nucleur consumption - by country

  1. US
  2. France
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. Russia

And the US is top there...so again, it is REALLY consuming a lot of energy...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:00:18 AM EST
You also want primary energy consumption:
  1. US
  2. China
  3. Russia
  4. Japan
  5. India
The EU consumes about 10% more than China and 2/3 of the US.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:06:55 AM EST
[ Parent ]
And the EU is a continent with many countries...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:16:14 AM EST
[ Parent ]
I think I get the award of the day for the most painfully obvious statement. Oh well, its Friday...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:17:37 AM EST
[ Parent ]
The point is that the EU is a political entity with some ability to affect the aggregate EU statistics.

The EU is not the continent.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:18:26 AM EST
[ Parent ]
And nuclear per capita consumption:

  1. Sweden 7.6 megawatt-hours per capita

  2. France 7.2 megawatt-hours per capita  

  3. Finland 4.3 megawatt-hours per capita     

  4. Lithuania 3.9 megawatt-hours per capita  

  5. Switzerland 3.6 megawatt-hours per capita  

  6. Slovakia 3.3 megawatt-hours per capita  

  7. United States 2.8 megawatt-hours per capita  

  8. Bulgaria 2.7 megawatt-hours per capita

  9. Japan 2.5 megawatt-hours per capita    

  10. South Korea 2.4 megawatt-hours per capita  


Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 11:19:36 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Coal, natural gas and hydroelectric rankings are also there...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:02:44 AM EST
but harder to find, is the list with consumption increases over the last few years.

Over the past five years, the list is as follows (from memory):

China
US
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Russia

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:35:26 AM EST
I know there are statistical techniques which political scientists use to try to evaluate which of a large number of different factors explain as much as possible in the variation of political opinions within a country.

Presumably similar techniques could be used to explain national variations in oil consumption. I probably would not understand the methodology but presumably someone trained in the mathematics of statistics could.

by Gary J on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 03:07:27 PM EST
The most important technique is eyeballing, you plot things and look at them.

For instance, if you look at Nuclear energy consumption per capita, posted above by Starvid, you see Three categories of countries (as there are two clear breaks in the data).

The first category comprises Sweden and France, which are wealthy social democracies with a strong state commitment to nuclear power. The rest of the countries could be divided into three categories: developed nuclear power and undeveloped nuclear power. The "developed nuclear power programmes" category includes industrialised countries (including former socialist), from Finland to Russia. The "undeveloped nuclear power programmes" includes countries that for one reason or another have been unwilling (Netherlands?) or unable (developing countries: Romania, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil) to develop a nuclear power programme, and those whose main purpose is military (South Africa—now filly civilian—, China, India, Pakistan).  I suppose in this analysis Sweden and France should be called "overdeveloped nuclear power programmes", and this is probably the case: France actually exports electricity if I am not mistaken.

The statistical technique used is called analysis of variance (link to a long but not very informative Wikipedia article, I was actually planning on rewriting it), but in most cases 1) the important part of the work is the enumeration of the "candidate factors" for explaining the ofserved differences; and 2) if you infer a correlation from looking at data, and then apply a statistical test to the same data to "verify/falsify" your inference, the standard statistical tests are biased in favour of accepting your inference.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Jul 29th, 2006 at 04:20:30 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Besides driving, what the hell are we doing to use all that energy?  I'm looking at my life and it doesn't seem so different than yours. (I don't drive at all, which is more than some of you Europeans can say.)

Seriously? Are you all running your tvs and computers and laundrettes on solar power?  WTF?

Or is driving really it?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 05:54:10 PM EST
According to the Energy Information Administration the US consumes 25% of the global production of oil with 67% of that consumption for transportation or 16.75% of the world's oil production.

No one could have predicted
by ATinNM on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 08:32:03 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Ok, I'm not good at math but even if you subtracted 67% from our consumption: all our transportation, we're still ahead of or on par with the 2nd largest oil-consuming nation, including their use of oil for transportation.

So, again, what the hell are we using the other 33% for?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Fri Jul 28th, 2006 at 10:33:26 PM EST
[ Parent ]
From the same source statistics for 1949 to 2005, selected years, in pdf:

Estimated Petroleum Consumption Residental and Commercial Sectors

Estimated Petroleum Consumption: Industrial Sector

Estimated Petroleum Consumption Transportation Sector

Estimated Petroleum Consumption: Energy Power Sector

Which will give an overview.

Off the top of my head, petroleum is used in or for: heating, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, food additives, plastics, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, perfumes, optics, food preservatives, dyes, yarn, binders, adhesives, solvents, glues, insulators, energy production, glazes, fixatives, inks, dryers, paints, a bazillion industrial process chemicals, and, apparently, this glass of wine next to my computer.  :-(

The real question is what petroleum doesn't affect even when its use in transportation is discounted.


No one could have predicted

by ATinNM on Sat Jul 29th, 2006 at 12:58:41 AM EST
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DOE data for you:

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_cons_psup_dc_nus_mbbl_m.htm

Divide by 31 for May and away you go.

total supplied = 634/31 = 20.5 MMBD

all sorts of goodies in the mix beyond the gigantic transportation demands
     

by HiD on Sat Jul 29th, 2006 at 06:13:49 AM EST
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Heating and cooling is a big factor, too. We heat and cool our houses much more aggressively than Europeans, and our buildings in general are much larger for a given purpose. We expect it to be "eternal spring" in our office buildings.

And we have "better" food, by which we mean food that has been grown in a more energy-intensive environment and then shipped a long way. We simply take for granted that there will be lettuce on the table 365 days a year, that there is no "season" for peaches or grapes, and that corn on the cob appears by magic. We eat frozen peas instead of fresh peas...
http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/energy/

We eat almost twice as much meat as Europeans, which is very expensive from an energy viewpoint. In Kg per person:
Europe   74.3
North America   123.2
http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.php

To significantly reduce American energy use would require considerable self-examination, and some lifestyle changes. Prediction: It won't happen.

by asdf on Mon Jul 31st, 2006 at 10:01:55 PM EST
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