Energy > Oil > Reserves per capita: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground. Figures expressed per capita for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Kuwait	42,023.87 barrels	2005
2	United Arab Emirates	23,572.61 barrels	2005
3	Qatar	19,484.66 barrels	2005
4	Saudi Arabia	10,639.91 barrels	2005
	OPEC countries average (profile)	10,349.51 barrels	2005
5	Libya	7,149.94 barrels	2005
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	6,610.12 barrels	2005
6	Canada	5,536.64 barrels	2005
7	Iraq	4,109.28 barrels	2005
8	Brunei	3,412.04 barrels	2005
9	Venezuela	2,828.34 barrels	2005
10	Oman	2,418.4 barrels	2005
11	Norway	2,132.46 barrels	2005
12	Iran	1,900.15 barrels	2005
13	Kazakhstan	1,716.51 barrels	2005
14	Angola	1,511.09 barrels	2005
15	Gabon	1,392.57 barrels	2005
16	Equatorial Guinea	933.49 barrels	2005
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	814.95 barrels	2005
17	Trinidad and Tobago	763.34 barrels	2005
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	530.17 barrels	2005
18	Russia	482.01 barrels	2005
19	Algeria	366.89 barrels	2005
20	Ecuador	327.5 barrels	2005
21	Mauritania	317.85 barrels	2005
22	Mexico	300.82 barrels	2005
23	Suriname	300.29 barrels	2005
24	Nigeria	257.91 barrels	2005
25	Denmark	226.96 barrels	2005
26	Yemen	216.98 barrels	2005
	Emerging markets average (profile)	185.25 barrels	2005
27	Australia	179.65 barrels	2005
28	Tunisia	169.51 barrels	2005
29	Bahrain	140.98 barrels	2005
30	Syria	137.61 barrels	2005
31	Malaysia	119.95 barrels	2005
32	Brazil	81.23 barrels	2005
33	Argentina	76.33 barrels	2005
34	United States	75.97 barrels	2005
35	United Kingdom	74.72 barrels	2005
36	Azerbaijan	70.19 barrels	2005
37	Albania	58.04 barrels	2005
38	Turkmenistan	57.5 barrels	2005
39	Sudan	50.66 barrels	2005
40	Bolivia	49.04 barrels	2005
41	Romania	48.76 barrels	2005
42	Cuba	47.11 barrels	2005
43	Egypt	37.62 barrels	2005
44	Colombia	34.55 barrels	2005
45	Democratic Republic of the Congo	28.47 barrels	2005
46	Papua New Guinea	27.89 barrels	2005
47	Uzbekistan	22.93 barrels	2005
48	New Zealand	21.68 barrels	2005
49	Croatia	21.07 barrels	2005
50	Guatemala	20.74 barrels	2005
51	Indonesia	20.49 barrels	2005
52	Burma	19.93 barrels	2005
53	China	14.01 barrels	2005
54	Peru	13.35 barrels	2005
55	Cote d'Ivoire	12.65 barrels	2005
56	Hungary	10.97 barrels	2005
57	Austria	10.25 barrels	2005
58	Italy	10.01 barrels	2005
59	Chile	9.18 barrels	2005
60	Thailand	8.89 barrels	2005
61	Ukraine	8.39 barrels	2005
62	Vietnam	7.28 barrels	2005
63	Netherlands	5.4 barrels	2005
64	India	5.06 barrels	2005
65	Germany	4.8 barrels	2005
66	Cameroon	4.69 barrels	2005
67	Barbados	4.58 barrels	2005
68	Turkey	4.26 barrels	2005
69	Poland	3.73 barrels	2005
70	Morocco	3.32 barrels	2005
71	France	2.28 barrels	2005
72	Pakistan	2.16 barrels	2005
	South Asia average (profile)	1.85 barrels	2005
73	Philippines	1.77 barrels	2005
74	Czech Republic	1.69 barrels	2005
75	Bulgaria	1.05 barrels	2005
76	Slovakia	0.835 barrels	2005
77	Benin	0.502 barrels	2005
78	Greece	0.405 barrels	2005
79	Ghana	0.386 barrels	2005
80	Israel	0.277 barrels	2005
81	Spain	0.242 barrels	2005
82	Japan	0.229 barrels	2005
83	Bangladesh	0.199 barrels	2005
84	South Africa	0.166 barrels	2005
85	Jordan	0.0822 barrels	2005
86	Ethiopia	0.00281 barrels	2005
=87	Namibia	0.0	2005
=87	Mozambique	0.0	2005
=87	Somalia	0.0	2005
=87	Rwanda	0.0	2005
=87	Ireland	0.0	2005
=87	Afghanistan	0.0	2005
=87	Madagascar	0.0	2005
=87	Tanzania	0.0	2005

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