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Oil reserves, per square kilometre by country

Oil reserves divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
97
Highest
905,567 cubic meters per square kilometre
Kuwait
Lowest
0.0603 cubic meters per square kilometre
Ethiopia
Median
202.99 cubic meters per square kilometre
Years covered
42
1980–2021
Data points
7,613

What the numbers show

Oil reserves, per square kilometre is currently reported for 97 countries. The highest value is 905,567 cubic meters per square kilometre in Kuwait; the lowest is 0.0603 cubic meters per square kilometre in Ethiopia.

The median across all reporting countries is 202.99 cubic meters per square kilometre, and the mean is 18,298 cubic meters per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 39 countries rose and 30 fell. The largest increase was in Viet Nam (up 633.0%), and the largest decrease in Mauritania (down 80.0%).

Oil reserves, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Kuwait 905,567 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
2 Qatar 349,302 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.5% volatile
3 United Arab Emirates 218,938 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
4 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 54,760 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 43.9% volatile
5 Iraq 53,109 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 26.2% rising
6 Bahrain 37,533 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 45.4% falling
7 Brunei Darussalam 33,185 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged falling
8 Iran, Islamic Republic of 20,441 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 52.8% rising
9 Saudi Arabia 19,126 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 2.2% rising
10 Azerbaijan 13,465 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% rising
11 Trinidad and Tobago 7,530 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 66.6% falling
12 Nigeria 6,440 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.8% rising
13 Equatorial Guinea 6,235 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
14 Ecuador 5,296 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 27.1% volatile
15 Libya 4,370 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 4.2% rising
16 Norway 3,545 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 43.6% falling
17 Canada 3,081 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.8% volatile
18 Oman 2,760 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 2.3% rising
19 Viet Nam 2,232 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 633.0% volatile
20 Syrian Arab Republic 2,164 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
21 Uganda 1,982 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 150.0% volatile
22 Kazakhstan 1,767 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
23 Denmark 1,753 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 45.7% rising
24 Malaysia 1,742 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 10.0% rising
25 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1,643 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 12.5% volatile
26 Congo 1,342 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 44.1% rising
27 Gabon 1,234 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
28 Angola 992.54 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 18.1% volatile
29 Yemen 903.39 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
30 Albania 870.37 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 24.7% flat
31 United States of America 818.75 cubic meters per square kilometre 2020 up 111.1% rising
32 Algeria 814.38 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
33 Russian Federation 776.64 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 33.3% rising
34 Barbados 731.34 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 10.6% rising
35 Netherlands 650.43 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 55.5% falling
36 Egypt 527.06 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 25.0% flat
37 Mexico 473.22 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 44.5% volatile
38 Ghana 461.17 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% volatile
39 China 440.69 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 27.9% rising
40 Tunisia 434.92 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
41 Sudan 425.56 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
42 Romania 414.61 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% falling
43 Colombia 291.75 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 7.2% rising
44 Italy 267.71 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 4.5% falling
45 India 246.24 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 19.0% rising
46 Brazil 241.85 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 1.1% volatile
47 Uzbekistan 214.31 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 1.1% flat
48 Indonesia 208.34 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 38.3% falling
49 Turkmenistan 202.99 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
50 Croatia 201.72 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% falling
51 Cuba 189.93 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 3.0% volatile
52 Chad 189.39 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
53 Belarus 155.11 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.0% flat
54 Serbia 146.53 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 4.0% flat
55 Argentina 144.23 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.9% rising
56 Guatemala 127.76 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 3.7% volatile
57 Pakistan 111.37 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 72.5% rising
58 Ukraine 108.39 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.0% flat
59 Peru 106.68 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 61.2% rising
60 Israel 93.53 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 556.2% volatile
61 Suriname 88.16 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 12.8% rising
62 Georgia 80.08 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
63 Thailand 78.65 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 41.9% volatile
64 Türkiye 75.61 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 35.3% falling
65 Philippines 73.85 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
66 Austria 67.82 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 29.6% falling
67 Cameroon 67.27 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged falling
68 Poland 58.69 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 17.3% rising
69 Papua New Guinea 56.05 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 81.4% falling
70 Germany 52.42 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 58.4% falling
71 Australia 50.56 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 26.4% rising
72 Côte d'Ivoire 50 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged falling
73 Spain 47.72 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% volatile
74 Belize 46.7 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
75 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 35.35 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 48.2% volatile
76 Bangladesh 34.2 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
77 Myanmar 33.86 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 178.3% volatile
78 Kyrgyzstan 33.16 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
79 Chile 32.1 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.1% volatile
80 Czechia 30.9 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.1% rising
81 Lithuania 30.47 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.1% flat
82 Slovakia 29.76 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% flat
83 New Zealand 24.75 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 63.6% falling
84 Bulgaria 21.97 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged flat
85 Hungary 21.08 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 54.8% volatile
86 Japan 19.24 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged falling
87 Niger 18.83 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 — volatile
88 France 18.21 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 32.6% falling
89 Tajikistan 13.75 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.8% flat
90 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 12.62 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged rising
91 Greece 12.33 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
92 Benin 11.28 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
93 Mauritania 3.09 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 80.0% volatile
94 South Africa 1.97 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
95 Jordan 1.79 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 down 0.0% volatile
96 Morocco 0.2437 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 unchanged volatile
97 Ethiopia 0.0603 cubic meters per square kilometre 2021 up 0.0% falling

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Oil reserves divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Oil reserves ÷ Land area (sq. km)

Computed from

  • Oil reserves U.S. Energy Information Administration (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data
  • Land area FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Indicator
Oil reserves, per square kilometre
Unit
cubic meters per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
201 places, 7,613 data points, 1980–2021
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Oil reserves divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.