Country Comparison > Oil - proved reserves

Rank	Country	Oil - proved reserves (bbl)
1	Saudi Arabia	266,800,000,000
2	Canada	178,800,000,000
3	Iran	132,500,000,000
4	Iraq	115,000,000,000
5	Kuwait	104,000,000,000
6	United Arab Emirates	97,800,000,000
7	Venezuela	79,730,000,000
8	Russia	60,000,000,000
9	Libya	39,130,000,000
10	Nigeria	35,880,000,000
11	United States	21,760,000,000
12	Qatar	15,210,000,000
13	Mexico	12,880,000,000
14	China	12,800,000,000
15	Algeria	11,350,000,000
16	Brazil	11,240,000,000
17	Kazakhstan	9,000,000,000
18	Norway	7,705,000,000
19	Azerbaijan	7,000,000,000
20	Sudan	6,400,000,000
21	India	5,848,000,000
22	Oman	5,506,000,000
23	Angola	5,412,000,000
24	Ecuador	4,630,000,000
25	Indonesia	4,301,000,000
26	United Kingdom	4,029,000,000
27	Yemen	4,000,000,000
28	Egypt	3,700,000,000
29	Malaysia	3,000,000,000
30	Syria	2,500,000,000
31	Gabon	2,499,000,000
32	Argentina	2,320,000,000
33	Burma	1,963,000,000
34	Colombia	1,542,000,000
35	Congo, Republic of the	1,506,000,000
36	Chad	1,500,000,000
37	Australia	1,437,000,000
38	Brunei	1,350,000,000
39	Denmark	1,328,000,000
40	Romania	955,600,000
41	Peru	929,600,000
42	Cuba	750,000,000
43	Italy	621,700,000
44	Trinidad and Tobago	605,800,000
45	Vietnam	600,000,000
46	Uzbekistan	594,000,000
47	Equatorial Guinea	563,500,000
48	Guatemala	526,000,000
49	Turkmenistan	500,000,000
50	Bolivia	440,500,000
51	Cameroon	400,000,000
52	Ukraine	395,000,000
53	Germany	367,200,000
54	Tunisia	307,600,000
55	Turkey	300,000,000
56	Thailand	291,000,000
57	Pakistan	289,200,000
58	Papua New Guinea	240,000,000
59	Albania	198,100,000
60	Belarus	198,000,000
61	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	187,000,000
62	France	158,400,000
63	Spain	157,600,000
64	Philippines	152,000,000
65	Chile	150,000,000
66	Bahrain	124,600,000
67	Suriname	111,000,000
68	Netherlands	106,000,000
69	Hungary	102,500,000
70	Cote d'Ivoire	100,000,000
71	Poland	96,380,000
72	Serbia	77,500,000
73	Croatia	69,140,000
74	Austria	62,000,000
75	Japan	58,500,000
76	New Zealand	55,500,000
77	Kyrgyzstan	40,000,000
78	Georgia	35,000,000
79	Bangladesh	28,000,000
80	Ghana	16,500,000
81	Czech Republic	15,000,000
82	Bulgaria	15,000,000
83	South Africa	15,000,000
84	Tajikistan	12,000,000
85	Lithuania	12,000,000
86	Slovakia	9,000,000
87	Benin	8,210,000
88	Greece	7,000,000
89	Barbados	2,500,000
90	Taiwan	2,240,000
91	Israel	2,000,000
92	Morocco	1,069,000
93	Jordan	1,000,000
94	Ethiopia	428,000
95	Gambia, The	0
96	Fiji	0
97	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0
98	Faroe Islands	0
99	French Polynesia	0
100	Estonia	0
101	Eritrea	0
102	El Salvador	0
103	Cape Verde	0
104	Cook Islands	0
105	Ireland	0
106	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0
107	Burkina Faso	0
108	Namibia	0
109	Western Sahara	0
110	Samoa	0
111	Swaziland	0
112	Djibouti	0
113	Dominica	0
114	Dominican Republic	0
115	Zimbabwe	0
116	British Virgin Islands	0
117	Gibraltar	0
118	Grenada	0
119	Greenland	0
120	Guam	0
121	Montenegro	0
122	Kenya	0
123	Jamaica	0
124	Laos	0
125	Lebanon	0
126	Latvia	0
127	Costa Rica	0
128	Lesotho	0
129	Luxembourg	0
130	Liberia	0
131	Kiribati	0
132	Korea, South	0
133	Iceland	0
134	Sri Lanka	0
135	Guinea	0
136	Central African Republic	0
137	Guyana	0
138	Haiti	0
139	Hong Kong	0
140	Honduras	0
141	Botswana	0
142	Bermuda	0
143	Belgium	0
144	Bahamas, The	0
145	Belize	0
146	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
147	Armenia	0
148	American Samoa	0
149	Aruba	0
150	Antigua and Barbuda	0
151	Afghanistan	0
152	Solomon Islands	0
153	Bhutan	0
154	Cayman Islands	0
155	Comoros	0
156	Burundi	0
157	Cambodia	0
158	Mauritius	0
159	Mauritania	0
160	Malta	0
161	Mozambique	0
162	New Caledonia	0
163	Niue	0
164	Vanuatu	0
165	Madagascar	0
166	Macau	0
167	Moldova	0
168	Mongolia	0
169	Montserrat	0
170	Malawi	0
171	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	0
172	Mali	0
173	Paraguay	0
174	Guinea-Bissau	0
175	Panama	0
176	Maldives	0
177	Netherlands Antilles	0
178	Nicaragua	0
179	Nepal	0
180	Nauru	0
181	Sweden	0
182	Tanzania	0
183	Uganda	0
184	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
185	Tonga	0
186	Togo	0
187	Sao Tome and Principe	0
188	Senegal	0
189	Saint Helena	0
190	Slovenia	0
191	Sierra Leone	0
192	Singapore	0
193	Somalia	0
194	Saint Lucia	0
195	Rwanda	0
196	Puerto Rico	0
197	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0
198	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
199	Seychelles	0

Definition: This entry is the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl). Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2009