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  Rank Order - Oil - proved reserves


Countries for which no information is available are not included in this list.
Rank
Country
Oil - proved reserves
(bbl)
Date of Information
1
 World 1,025,000,000,000 1 January 2002 est.
2
 Saudi Arabia 261,700,000,000 2004 est.
3
 Canada 178,900,000,000 2004 est.
4
 Iran 130,800,000,000 2004 est.
5
 Iraq 112,500,000,000 2004 est.
6
 United Arab Emirates 97,800,000,000 2004 est.
7
 Kuwait 96,500,000,000 2004 est.
8
 Venezuela 78,000,000,000 2004 est.
9
 Russia 69,000,000,000 2003 est.
10
 Libya 38,000,000,000 2004 est.
11
 Nigeria 34,000,000,000 2004 est.
12
 European Union 28,210,000,000 1 January 2002
13
 Kazakhstan 26,000,000,000 1 January 2004
14
 United Kingdom 25,410,000,000 2003
15
 Angola 22,880,000,000 2004 est.
16
 United States 22,450,000,000 1 January 2002
17
 Mexico 18,000,000,000 2004 est.
18
 China 17,740,000,000 2004 est.
19
 Qatar 16,000,000,000 2004 est.
20
 Brazil 13,900,000,000 2004 est.
21
 Algeria 11,870,000,000 2004 est.
22
 Norway 9,859,000,000 1 January 2002
23
 India 5,700,000,000 2004 est.
24
 Oman 5,500,000,000 2003 est.
25
 Indonesia 4,900,000,000 2004 est.
26
 Ecuador 4,408,000,000 2004 est.
27
 Yemen 4,000,000,000 2004 est.
28
 Australia 3,664,000,000 1 January 2002
29
 Burma 3,200,000,000 2003
30
 Malaysia 3,200,000,000 2004 est.
31
 Argentina 2,900,000,000 2004 est.
32
 Egypt 2,700,000,000 2004 est.
33
 Syria 2,500,000,000 2004 est.
34
 Gabon 2,022,000,000 2004 est.
35
 Colombia 1,700,000,000 2004 est.
36
 Tunisia 1,700,000,000 2004 est.
37
 Sudan 1,600,000,000 2004 est.
38
 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1,538,000,000 1 January 2002
39
 Brunei 1,255,000,000 1 January 2002
40
 Denmark 1,230,000,000 1 January 2002
41
 Romania 1,055,000,000 1 January 2002
42
 Trinidad and Tobago 990,000,000 1 January 2004
43
 Vietnam 650,000,000 2004 est.
44
 Thailand 600,000,000 1 January 2003
45
 Azerbaijan 589,000,000 1 January 2002
46
 Italy 586,600,000 1 January 2002
47
 Equatorial Guinea 563,500,000 1 January 2002
48
 Cuba 532,000,000 1 January 2002
49
 Bolivia 458,800,000 1 January 2002
50
 Peru 408,800,000 2004 est.
51
 Germany 395,800,000 1 January 2004
52
 Ukraine 395,000,000 9 November 2004
53
 Pakistan 325,500,000 2004 est.
54
 Morocco 300,000,000 2004 est.
55
 Uzbekistan 297,000,000 1 January 2002
56
 Turkey 288,400,000 1 January 2002
57
 Turkmenistan 273,000,000 1 January 2002
58
 Guatemala 263,000,000 1 January 2002
59
 Cote d'Ivoire 220,000,000 2004 est.
60
 Albania 185,500,000 1 January 2002
61
 Papua New Guinea 170,000,000 2004 est.
62
 Philippines 152,000,000 1 January 2004
63
 Chile 150,000,000 1 January 2004
64
 France 144,300,000 1 January 2002
65
 Bahrain 126,000,000 2004 est.
66
 Poland 116,400,000 1 January 2002
67
 Hungary 110,700,000 1 January 2002
68
 Suriname 99,000,000 2004
69
 Croatia 93,600,000 1 January 2002
70
 Congo, Republic of the 93,500,000 1 January 2002
71
 New Zealand 89,620,000 1 January 2002
72
 Netherlands 88,060,000 1 January 2002
73
 Austria 85,690,000 1 January 2002
74
 Cameroon 80,000,000 2004 est.
75
 Serbia and Montenegro 38,750,000 1 January 2002
76
 Japan 29,290,000 1 January 2002
77
 Bangladesh 28,450,000 1 January 2002
78
 Czech Republic 17,250,000 1 January 2002
79
 Spain 10,500,000 1 January 2002
80
 Ghana 8,255,000 1 January 2002
81
 Bulgaria 8,100,000 1 January 2002
82
 South Africa 7,840,000 1 January 2002
83
 Greece 4,500,000 1 January 2002
84
 Slovakia 4,500,000 1 January 2002
85
 Benin 4,105,000 1 January 2002
86
 Taiwan 2,900,000 2004 est.
87
 Israel 1,920,000 1 January 2002
88
 Barbados 1,254,000 1 January 2002
89
 Jordan 445,000 1 January 2002
90
 Ethiopia 214,000 1 January 2002
91
 Afghanistan 0 1 January 2002
92
 Rwanda 0 1 January 2002
93
 Tanzania 0 1 January 2002
94
 Namibia 0 1 January 2002
95
 Somalia 0 1 January 2002
96
 Mozambique 0 1 January 2002
97
 Ireland 0 1 January 2002
98
 Madagascar 0 1 January 2002

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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