Natural Gas Consumption 1998
Natural gas consumption data reveals energy usage trends across countries. Compare figures, explore rankings, and visualize with interactive maps.
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Rank | Actions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1 |  United States | 6,021.791 TWh | |
2 |  Russia | 3,595.702 TWh | |
3 |  United Kingdom | 919.405 TWh | |
4 |  Germany | 838.65 TWh | |
5 |  Canada | 787.573 TWh | |
6 |  Ukraine | 697.505 TWh | |
7 |  Japan | 691.639 TWh | |
8 |  Italy | 598.945 TWh | |
9 |  Iran | 462.314 TWh | |
10 |  Saudi Arabia | 444.79 TWh | |
11 |  Netherlands | 418.389 TWh | |
12 |  Uzbekistan | 410.988 TWh | |
13 |  France | 388.595 TWh | |
14 |  Venezuela | 358.924 TWh | |
15 |  Mexico | 334.79 TWh | |
16 |  Indonesia | 298.99 TWh | |
17 |  Argentina | 296.71 TWh | |
18 |  United Arab Emirates | 296.303 TWh | |
19 |  India | 235.429 TWh | |
20 |  Malaysia | 204.397 TWh | |
21 |  China | 204.163 TWh | |
22 |  Algeria | 200.681 TWh | |
23 |  Australia | 196.953 TWh | |
24 |  Romania | 174.272 TWh | |
25 |  Thailand | 164.949 TWh | |
26 |  Pakistan | 148.63 TWh | |
27 |  South Korea | 144.842 TWh | |
28 |  Belgium | 144.644 TWh | |
29 |  Belarus | 140.591 TWh | |
30 |  Spain | 134.987 TWh | |
31 |  Egypt | 131.863 TWh | |
32 |  Hungary | 113.698 TWh | |
33 |  Qatar | 112.052 TWh | |
34 |  Poland | 110.651 TWh | |
35 |  Turkmenistan | 103.276 TWh | |
36 |  Turkey | 98.345 TWh | |
37 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 90.443 TWh | |
38 |  Kuwait | 90.165 TWh | |
39 |  Bahrain | 89.832 TWh | |
40 |  Czech Republic | 89.38 TWh | |
41 |  Austria | 80.207 TWh | |
42 |  Bangladesh | 76.864 TWh | |
43 |  Kazakhstan | 73.631 TWh | |
44 |  Slovakia | 65.937 TWh | |
45 |  Colombia | 65.886 TWh | |
46 |  Brazil | 65.632 TWh | |
47 |  Nigeria | 63.934 TWh | |
48 |  Taiwan | 61.644 TWh | |
49 |  Libya | 59.058 TWh | |
50 |  Syrian Arab Republic | 57.25 TWh | |
51 |  Azerbaijan | 51.003 TWh | |
52 |  Denmark | 49.298 TWh | |
53 |  New Zealand | 48.311 TWh | |
54 |  Oman | 43.919 TWh | |
55 |  Chile | 39.771 TWh | |
56 |  Norway | 39.507 TWh | |
57 |  Finland | 38.536 TWh | |
58 |  Bulgaria | 36.101 TWh | |
59 |  Tunisia | 34.78 TWh | |
60 |  Ireland | 32.657 TWh | |
61 |  China, Hong Kong SAR | 28.226 TWh | |
62 |  Iraq | 28.025 TWh | |
63 |  Republic of Moldova | 25.438 TWh | |
64 |  Croatia | 25.118 TWh | |
65 |  Switzerland | 24.72 TWh | |
66 |  Kyrgyzstan | 20.741 TWh | |
67 |  Lithuania | 20.398 TWh | |
68 |  Georgia | 20.155 TWh | |
69 |  Myanmar | 19.199 TWh | |
70 |  Armenia | 15.171 TWh | |
71 |  Singapore | 14.25 TWh | |
72 |  Tajikistan | 12.137 TWh | |
73 |  Latvia | 10.978 TWh | |
74 |  Slovenia | 9.512 TWh | |
75 |  Bolivia | 9.41 TWh | |
76 |  South Africa | 9.298 TWh | |
77 |  Brunei Darussalam | 9.077 TWh | |
78 |  Vietnam | 8.685 TWh | |
79 |  Côte d'Ivoire | 8.669 TWh | |
80 |  Sweden | 8.246 TWh | |
81 |  Greece | 8.145 TWh | |
82 |  Portugal | 8.038 TWh | |
83 |  Luxembourg | 7.326 TWh | |
84 |  Estonia | 6.89 TWh | |
85 |  Angola | 6.285 TWh | |
86 |  Cuba | 4.334 TWh | |
87 |  Peru | 3.937 TWh | |
88 |  Ecuador | 3.187 TWh | |
89 |  Jordan | 3.034 TWh | |
90 |  Afghanistan | 2.492 TWh | |
91 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2.053 TWh | |
92 |  Papua New Guinea | 1.192 TWh | |
93 |  Gabon | 1.084 TWh | |
94 |  Mozambique | 0.65 TWh | |
95 |  Barbados | 0.401 TWh | |
96 |  Senegal | 0.372 TWh | |
97 |  Morocco | 0.329 TWh | |
98 |  Albania | 0.324 TWh | |
99 |  Equatorial Guinea | 0.217 TWh | |
100 |  North Macedonia | 0.192 TWh | |
101 |  Israel | 0.112 TWh | |
102 |  Philippines | 0.089 TWh | |
103 |  American Samoa | 0 TWh | |
104 |  Antigua and Barbuda | 0 TWh | |
105 |  Aruba | 0 TWh | |
106 |  Bahamas | 0 TWh | |
107 |  Belize | 0 TWh | |
108 |  Benin | 0 TWh | |
109 |  Bermuda | 0 TWh | |
110 |  Bhutan | 0 TWh | |
111 |  Botswana | 0 TWh | |
112 |  British Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
113 |  Burkina Faso | 0 TWh | |
114 |  Burundi | 0 TWh | |
115 |  Cambodia | 0 TWh | |
116 |  Cameroon | 0 TWh | |
117 |  Cabo Verde | 0 TWh | |
118 |  Cayman Islands | 0 TWh | |
119 |  Central African Republic | 0 TWh | |
120 |  Chad | 0 TWh | |
121 |  Comoros | 0 TWh | |
122 |  Congo | 0 TWh | |
123 |  Cook Islands | 0 TWh | |
124 |  Costa Rica | 0 TWh | |
125 |  Cyprus | 0 TWh | |
126 |  Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 0 TWh | |
127 |  Djibouti | 0 TWh | |
128 |  Dominica | 0 TWh | |
129 |  Dominican Republic | 0 TWh | |
130 |  El Salvador | 0 TWh | |
131 |  Eritrea | 0 TWh | |
132 |  Eswatini | 0 TWh | |
133 |  Ethiopia | 0 TWh | |
134 |  Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 0 TWh | |
135 |  Faroe Islands | 0 TWh | |
136 |  Fiji | 0 TWh | |
137 |  French Guiana | 0 TWh | |
138 |  French Polynesia | 0 TWh | |
139 |  Gambia | 0 TWh | |
140 |  Ghana | 0 TWh | |
141 |  Gibraltar | 0 TWh | |
142 |  Greenland | 0 TWh | |
143 |  Grenada | 0 TWh | |
144 |  Guadeloupe | 0 TWh | |
145 |  Guam | 0 TWh | |
146 |  Guatemala | 0 TWh | |
147 |  Guinea | 0 TWh | |
148 |  Guinea-Bissau | 0 TWh | |
149 |  Guyana | 0 TWh | |
150 |  Haiti | 0 TWh | |
151 |  Honduras | 0 TWh | |
152 |  Iceland | 0 TWh | |
153 |  Jamaica | 0 TWh | |
154 |  Kenya | 0 TWh | |
155 |  Kiribati | 0 TWh | |
156 |  Laos | 0 TWh | |
157 |  Lebanon | 0 TWh | |
158 |  Lesotho | 0 TWh | |
159 |  Liberia | 0 TWh | |
160 |  China, Macao SAR | 0 TWh | |
161 |  Madagascar | 0 TWh | |
162 |  Malawi | 0 TWh | |
163 |  Maldives | 0 TWh | |
164 |  Mali | 0 TWh | |
165 |  Malta | 0 TWh | |
166 |  Martinique | 0 TWh | |
167 |  Mauritania | 0 TWh | |
168 |  Mauritius | 0 TWh | |
169 |  Micronesia (Fed. States of) | 0 TWh | |
170 |  Mongolia | 0 TWh | |
171 |  Montserrat | 0 TWh | |
172 |  Namibia | 0 TWh | |
173 |  Nauru | 0 TWh | |
174 |  Nepal | 0 TWh | |
175 |  New Caledonia | 0 TWh | |
176 |  Nicaragua | 0 TWh | |
177 |  Niger | 0 TWh | |
178 |  Niue | 0 TWh | |
179 |  North Korea | 0 TWh | |
180 |  Northern Mariana Islands | 0 TWh | |
181 |  State of Palestine | 0 TWh | |
182 |  Panama | 0 TWh | |
183 |  Paraguay | 0 TWh | |
184 |  Puerto Rico | 0 TWh | |
185 |  Réunion | 0 TWh | |
186 |  Rwanda | 0 TWh | |
187 |  Saint Helena | 0 TWh | |
188 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 TWh | |
189 |  Saint Lucia | 0 TWh | |
190 |  Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 0 TWh | |
191 |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 TWh | |
192 |  Samoa | 0 TWh | |
193 |  Sao Tome and Principe | 0 TWh | |
194 |  Seychelles | 0 TWh | |
195 |  Sierra Leone | 0 TWh | |
196 |  Solomon Islands | 0 TWh | |
197 |  Somalia | 0 TWh | |
198 |  Sri Lanka | 0 TWh | |
199 |  Sudan | 0 TWh | |
200 |  Suriname | 0 TWh | |
201 |  Tanzania | 0 TWh | |
202 |  Togo | 0 TWh | |
203 |  Tonga | 0 TWh | |
204 |  Turks and Caicos Islands | 0 TWh | |
205 |  Tuvalu | 0 TWh | |
206 |  Uganda | 0 TWh | |
207 |  United States Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
208 |  Uruguay | 0 TWh | |
209 |  Vanuatu | 0 TWh | |
210 |  Western Sahara | 0 TWh | |
211 |  Yemen | 0 TWh | |
212 |  Zambia | 0 TWh | |
213 |  Zimbabwe | 0 TWh |
- #1United States
- #2Russia
- #3United Kingdom
- #4Germany
- #5Canada
- #6Ukraine
- #7Japan
- #8Italy
- #9Iran
- #10Saudi Arabia
Analysis: These countries represent the highest values in this dataset, showcasing significant scale and impact on global statistics.
- #213Zimbabwe
- #212Zambia
- #211Yemen
- #210Western Sahara
- #209Vanuatu
- #208Uruguay
- #207United States Virgin Islands
- #206Uganda
- #205Tuvalu
- #204Turks and Caicos Islands
Context: These countries or territories have the lowest values, often due to geographic size, administrative status, or specific characteristics.
Data Source
Gas consumption | Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy and others via Our World in Data
Data produced by Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy; U.S. Energy Information Administration; Etemad & Luciani, compiled and published by Our World in Data as "Gas consumption".
Visit Data SourceCite this page
Geo Factbook. (n.d.). Natural Gas Consumption by Country, 1998. Retrieved November 13, 2026, from https://geofactbook.com/fact/natural-gas-consumption/1998
The figures on this page come from Gas consumption | Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy and others via Our World in Data. For academic work, cite the original source as well.
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