Amount of oil reserves in top 20 countries, represented in barrels

Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial. Different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.

Country	US EIA [6]	OPEC [7]	BP [8]	Others	Production[5] (million bbl/year)	Years of production in reserve
Venezuela *	302,809	302,809	300,900		831.1	364
Saudi Arabia *	267,026	266,260	266,000		3,818.1	70
Canada *	167,896	4,421	172,200	[9] 171,000	1,336.8	126
Iran *	155,600	[10] 208,600	155,600		1,452.9	107
Iraq *	145,019	147,223	143,100		1,624.8	89
Kuwait *	104,000	104,000	104,000		1,067.2	97
United Arab Emirates *	98,630	98,630	98,630		1,133.7	87
Russia *	80,000	80,000	102,400		3,851.3	21
Libya *	48,363	74,363	78,400		366.1	132
United States *	47,053	32,773	55,000	[11] 43,629	3,239.7	15
Nigeria *	36,972	37,453	37,100		730.0	51
Kazakhstan *	30,000	30,000	30,000		582.2	52
China *	25,620	25,627	18,500		1,452.9	18
Qatar *	25,244	25,244	25,244		555.9	45
Brazil *	12,999	12,634	13,000	[11] 16,848	918.1	14
Algeria *	12,200	12,200	12,200		492.1	25
Angola *	8,273	8,384	12,700		645.9	13
Ecuador	8,273	8,273	8,000		200.2	41
Mexico *	7,300	6,537	10,800	[12] 9.700	798.2	9
Azerbaijan *	7,000	7,000	7,000		304.2	23

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