Countries Ranked by Oil Proved Reserves

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.

Rank	Country	Barrels	Year
1	Russia	656,200,000,000	2007
2	United States	490,800,000,000	2005
3	Canada	178,200,000,000	2005
4	Iran	101,000,000,000	2005
5	Algeria	84,400,000,000	2005
6	United Kingdom	84,160,000,000	2005
7	Norway	83,440,000,000	2005
8	Netherlands	77,300,000,000	2006
9	Indonesia	74,000,000,000	2006
10	Turkmenistan	72,300,000,000	2007
11	Saudi Arabia	68,320,000,000	2005
12	Uzbekistan	62,500,000,000	2006
13	Malaysia	60,900,000,000	2005
14	China	58,600,000,000	2006
15	United Arab Emirates	45,070,000,000	2005
16	Qatar	43,930,000,000	2005
17	Argentina	43,760,000,000	2005
18	Mexico	41,370,000,000	2005
19	Egypt	40,760,000,000	2005
20	Trinidad and Tobago	39,920,000,000	2007
21	Australia	38,620,000,000	2005
22	Pakistan	29,540,000,000	2005
23	India	28,680,000,000	2005
24	Venezuela	27,530,000,000	2005
25	Thailand	22,730,000,000	2005
26	Nigeria	21,480,000,000	2005
27	Ukraine	20,850,000,000	2006
28	Germany	19,900,000,000	2005
29	Oman	18,980,000,000	2005
30	Kazakhstan	16,690,000,000	2007
31	Bangladesh	13,430,000,000	2005
32	Bolivia	12,740,000,000	2006
33	Burma	12,470,000,000	2005
34	Romania	12,240,000,000	2007
35	Kuwait	11,800,000,000	2005
36	Italy	11,490,000,000	2005
37	Brunei	11,030,000,000	2005
38	Libya	10,840,000,000	2005
39	Bahrain	10,270,000,000	2005
40	Denmark	9,870,000,000	2006
41	Brazil	9,370,000,000	2005
42	Syria	7,800,000,000	2007
43	Vietnam	6,860,000,000	2007
44	Colombia	6,397,000,000	2005
45	Azerbaijan	6,300,000,000	2007
46	Poland	5,828,000,000	2005
47	Japan	4,850,000,000	2005
48	New Zealand	3,900,000,000	2006
49	Iraq	3,500,000,000	2007
50	Hungary	2,904,000,000	2005
51	philippines	2,781,000,000	2005
52	Tunisia	2,398,000,000	2005
53	South Africa	2,110,000,000	2005
54	Senegal	2,000,000,000	2006
55	Chile	1,957,000,000	2005
56	South Korea	1,660,000,000	2006
57	Austria	1,570,000,000	2005
58	Peru	1,515,000,000	2005
59	Croatia	1,477,000,000	2005
60	France	1,400,000,000	2004
61	Equatorial Guinea	1,247,000,000	2005
62	Cote d'Ivoire	1,247,000,000	2005
63	Cuba	1,058,000,000	2006
64	Turkey	860,300,000	2005
65	Angola	767,300,000	2005
66	Israel	709,700,000	2005
67	Serbia	650,000,000	2005
68	Ireland	546,700,000	2005
69	Taiwan	462,900,000	2006
70	Jordan	268,500,000	2005
71	Ecuador	249,400,000	2005
72	Mozambique	191,800,000	2005
73	Belarus	165,000,000	2005
74	Czech Republic	165,000,000	2005
75	Spain	151,500,000	2005
76	Slovakia	141,900,000	2005
77	The Republic of Congo	115,100,000	2005
78	Gabon	95,910,000	2005
79	Papua New Guinea	95,910,000	2005
80	Morocco	47,950,000	2005
81	Tajikistan	39,320,000	2005
82	Albania	28,770,000	2005
83	Kyrgyzstan	28,770,000	2005
84	Barbados	27,970,000	2005
85	Afghanistan	19,180,000	2005
86	Greece	15,350,000	2005
87	Georgia	14,390,000	2005
88	Slovenia	4,795,000	2005
89	Bulgaria	407,000	2005

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