Top Oil Consumers Worldwide

January 17, 2008

Top Oil Consumers Worldwide

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Filed under: General, Peak Oil — admin @ 9:31 pm

If you’ve ever wondered where all the oil is going, here’s your chance to take a gander at some stats. Lonewolf found this over on Peak Oil:

This post is in response to a question that was asked in a different thread (Breaking Through) wondering how much oil was used by the top 1 billion consumers. So what I did to get a good estimate of this was -

1) I looked up the top 40 oil consuming nations (2006) at the EIA website:

2) I looked up their July 2007 populations at the CIA World Fact Book (CIA website, enter at your own risk):

3) Put them in a spreadsheet, calculated their per capita oil use, and then sorted them in order of per capita use. These 40 nations use 88% of the oil produced on the planet, so this is a pretty good answer to the question, though it ignores some very small nations and some very poor nations.

Here’s the table. Consumption is in barrels per day.

	Country	Consumption	Population	Per Capita
1	Kuwait	524,045	2,505,559	0.2092
2	Singapore	796,650	4,553,009	0.1750
3	UAE	423,072	4,444,011	0.0952
4	Saudi Arabia	2,067,829	27,601,038	0.0749
5	USA	20,587,550	301,139,947	0.0684
6	Canada	2,217,877	33,390,141	0.0664
7	Netherlands	1,013,175	16,570,613	0.0611
8	Belgium	556,490	10,392,226	0.0535
9	Australia	920,186	20,434,176	0.0450
10	South Korea,	2,157,479	49,044,790	0.0440
11	Taiwan	950,192	22,858,872	0.0416
12	Japan	5,221,636	127,433,494	0.0410
13	Greece	434,871	10,706,290	0.0406
14	Sweden	363,320	9,031,088	0.0402
15	Spain	1,583,671	40,448,191	0.0392
16	Austria	301,35	68,199,783	0.0368
17	Germany	2,629,526	82,400,996	0.0319
18	France	1,972,132	63,713,926	0.0310
19	UK	1,816,014	60,776,238	0.0299
20	Italy	1,709,444	58,147,733	0.0294
21	Portugal	304,460	10,642,836	0.0286
22	Iran	1,626,925	65,397,521	0.0249
23	Venezuela	599,191	26,023,528	0.0230
24	Russia	3,103,333	141,377,752	0.0220
25	Malaysia	515,049	24,821,286	0.0208
26	Iraq	570,058	27,499,638	0.0207
27	Mexico	2,029,729	108,700,891	0.0187
28	Thailand	939,974	65,068,149	0.0144
29	Poland	495,274	38,518,241	0.0129
30	Argentina	479,975	40,301,927	0.0119
31	South Africa	519,171	43,997,828	0.0118
32	Brazil	2,183,161	190,010,647	0.0115
33	Turkey	618,759	71,158,647	0.0087
34	Egypt	600,999	80,335,036	0.0075
35	Ukraine	342,902	46,299,862	0.0074
36	China	7,273,869	1,321,851,888	0.0055
37	Indonesia	1,165,073	234,693,997	0.0050
38	Philippines	348,709	91,077,287	0.0038
39	India	2,533,892	1,129,866,154	0.0022
40	Pakistan	344,963	164,741,924	0.0021

So, the answer to the question, “How much oil do the top 1 billion consumers use?” is approximately this: The top 22 nations on this list have a total population of just over 1 billion people, and they use 50,177,900 barrels per day, which is almost 60% of production. All 40 nations, by the way, have a population of 4.87 billion, and (once again) they use about 88% of the oil produced in the world.

Using the data sources I did, one could go all the way down the list of 230 nations and figure it all out, if one wanted to spend the time.
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SO less than 1/6 (17%) consume 60%, and 64% (3.87B) consume 28% , therefore 19% use 12%.

[Note that the US consumption is shown as being far, far higher in actual daily consumption then some published figures which report a 8 million barrels per day usage - Admin]

7 Responses to “Top Oil Consumers Worldwide”

Greyzone Says:
January 17th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
The US produces just over 5 million barrels per day of crude oil. It produces another 3 million barrels per day of other hydrocarbon liquids (NGLs, biofuels, etc.). The total produced is 8 million barrels roughly. Consumption is and has been over 20 million barrels per day for several years. The EIA data never disputes this so any other figures from other sources should be considered suspect, especially any that suggest that US consumption is that low.
lonewolf Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 8:18 am
“that low:? since when is 20,587,550 less than 20M Not claiming that the above numbers are accurate, just that they are in the ballpark.

The calculated daily consumption per capita in the US above is 0.0684 bbl.- which is 2.8728 gallons (all oil products and derivatives, direct and indirect). IMO, that is low relative to what I would have expected when factoring in food production, processing transport and manufacture/delivery of all other products consumed daily by American’ts. OTOH, 3 gal/day per person will soon enough be $100/day, if you have it and could spend it on oil.
lonewolf Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Those willy Kuwaiti’s. They must be drinking the stuff. It’s not like they all own Hummers (camels don’t have gas tanks) or have somewhere to go (no roads to speak of, no interstates at all). They aren’t mining/smelting ores, planting/harvesting/processing grain, or manufacturing/shipping fuck all. They aren’t even building, not like Abu Dhabi. So, WTF is up with these ungrateful venomous sand-niggers who wouldn’t even be around if not for GW1) sucking-up over 3 times as much oil per rag-head as do the unquenchable life-blood-sucking American’ts? Hmmmm. Perhaps the Kuwaiti’s are all chipping-in to keep the Armageddon Air Force flying in Afghanistan, Iraq (soon Iran and Pakistan). Must be one hell of a strategic reserve available to propel Darth’s Death Star and bring forth the Dark Lord.
ThePrisoner Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Ok, according to the above table has anyone caught the lie that we have been fed here in the U.S. For several years now we have been told that high oil prices were because of China and India now using so much and competing with us, but yet they come in 36th and 39th while we’re there at #5.

LIES and GREED from Corps and politcians is all that has made this country go for years now and now it’s all blowing back, except the elite won’t get hurt like the average joe will. We (the average joe citizen) will lose jobs, homes, land,freedom,etc but you won’t see Bush or Ford or Rommey,Clinton selling apples on street corners.
Greyzone Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Lonewolf, you apparently missed the thrust of my first comment. I was responding to admin’s addendum at the end of the article. What did he say?

“[Note that the US consumption is shown as being far, far higher in actual daily consumption then some published figures which report a 8 million barrels per day usage - Admin]”

In other words, he suggested that someone is saying that US consumption is 8 million barrels per day. I politely referenced the data from the EIA and stated that any source in serious conflict with that data should be considered suspect.

Then you try to take me to task about 20 million barrels per day? Slow down! Read more carefully! And if I was too obtuse because of my attempts to not just call direct attention to admin’s comment then I apologize for being obtuse.
threecorneredhat Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Glad lonewolf knows oil is in 42 gallon barrels. Most think it’s 55 like their old burn trash barrel. I did the math and I find it hard to believe the average is 2.8 gallons per capita. Apparently we do not take into account the oil used in shipping by cargo ships, naval vessels, space shots, railways, tractor trailers, RV’s, light aircraft, airlines, Air Forces, heating oil, manufacturing, and production of plastics. Reminds me of an old book I read in college decades ago. “How to Lie with Statistics.”
lonewolf Says:
January 18th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
@ greyzone “I was responding to admin’s addendum at the end of the article”

and so was I

and in Admin’s ‘defense’, he’s had very little sleep.

US consumption is more than 20Mmpd and if EVERY usage, incl. US military interventions (fueled by Gulf states) was included, it could really be 30Mbpd.
Even if it was 20M ((it’s not), we’re more likely to ’see’ 5M before (the mythical) 25M - in a variety of ‘ways’.