Natural Gas Production 2006
Natural gas production data reveals how countries harness this energy source. Compare outputs, explore rankings, and view interactive maps.
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Rank | Actions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1 |  Russia | 6,047.812 TWh | |
2 |  United States | 5,017.24 TWh | |
3 |  Canada | 1,793.974 TWh | |
4 |  Iran | 1,052.773 TWh | |
5 |  Norway | 882.249 TWh | |
6 |  United Kingdom | 837.484 TWh | |
7 |  Algeria | 812.995 TWh | |
8 |  Indonesia | 753.971 TWh | |
9 |  Saudi Arabia | 697.88 TWh | |
10 |  Malaysia | 674.659 TWh | |
11 |  Netherlands | 645.028 TWh | |
12 |  China | 590.136 TWh | |
13 |  Turkmenistan | 565.95 TWh | |
14 |  Uzbekistan | 565.95 TWh | |
15 |  Egypt | 526.488 TWh | |
16 |  Qatar | 524.745 TWh | |
17 |  Mexico | 484.522 TWh | |
18 |  United Arab Emirates | 475.702 TWh | |
19 |  Argentina | 448.323 TWh | |
20 |  Australia | 406.822 TWh | |
21 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 355.603 TWh | |
22 |  Venezuela | 349.45 TWh | |
23 |  Pakistan | 333.195 TWh | |
24 |  India | 281.868 TWh | |
25 |  Nigeria | 268.915 TWh | |
26 |  Thailand | 251.703 TWh | |
27 |  Oman | 242.915 TWh | |
28 |  Ukraine | 199.636 TWh | |
29 |  Kazakhstan | 198.515 TWh | |
30 |  Germany | 163.422 TWh | |
31 |  Bangladesh | 143.634 TWh | |
32 |  Libya | 125.353 TWh | |
33 |  Bolivia | 124.453 TWh | |
34 |  Myanmar | 123.795 TWh | |
35 |  Brunei Darussalam | 122.561 TWh | |
36 |  Kuwait | 117.895 TWh | |
37 |  Brazil | 114.785 TWh | |
38 |  Romania | 111.164 TWh | |
39 |  Denmark | 108.43 TWh | |
40 |  Bahrain | 107.632 TWh | |
41 |  Italy | 105.345 TWh | |
42 |  Colombia | 67.647 TWh | |
43 |  Vietnam | 67.55 TWh | |
44 |  Azerbaijan | 66.045 TWh | |
45 |  Syrian Arab Republic | 58.906 TWh | |
46 |  Timor-Leste | 45.414 TWh | |
47 |  Poland | 45.129 TWh | |
48 |  Japan | 43.496 TWh | |
49 |  New Zealand | 42.793 TWh | |
50 |  South Africa | 31.425 TWh | |
51 |  Hungary | 30.783 TWh | |
52 |  Tunisia | 30.377 TWh | |
53 |  Mozambique | 27.958 TWh | |
54 |  Philippines | 23.384 TWh | |
55 |  Israel | 21.952 TWh | |
56 |  Austria | 20.954 TWh | |
57 |  Chile | 20.042 TWh | |
58 |  Peru | 17.086 TWh | |
59 |  Croatia | 16.582 TWh | |
60 |  Equatorial Guinea | 14.087 TWh | |
61 |  Iraq | 13.775 TWh | |
62 |  Côte d'Ivoire | 13.468 TWh | |
63 |  France | 12.959 TWh | |
64 |  Turkey | 9.629 TWh | |
65 |  Angola | 7.369 TWh | |
66 |  Tanzania | 5.462 TWh | |
67 |  Ireland | 5.305 TWh | |
68 |  South Korea | 5.077 TWh | |
69 |  Bulgaria | 4.831 TWh | |
70 |  Taiwan | 4.45 TWh | |
71 |  Cuba | 4.334 TWh | |
72 |  Ecuador | 3.767 TWh | |
73 |  Jordan | 3.468 TWh | |
74 |  Slovakia | 2.275 TWh | |
75 |  Serbia | 2.051 TWh | |
76 |  Congo | 1.951 TWh | |
77 |  Czech Republic | 1.903 TWh | |
78 |  Belarus | 1.826 TWh | |
79 |  Papua New Guinea | 1.517 TWh | |
80 |  Gabon | 1.084 TWh | |
81 |  Spain | 0.815 TWh | |
82 |  Morocco | 0.722 TWh | |
83 |  Republic of Moldova | 0.542 TWh | |
84 |  Senegal | 0.465 TWh | |
85 |  Tajikistan | 0.39 TWh | |
86 |  Greece | 0.336 TWh | |
87 |  Albania | 0.324 TWh | |
88 |  Barbados | 0.291 TWh | |
89 |  Kyrgyzstan | 0.282 TWh | |
90 |  Afghanistan | 0.217 TWh | |
91 |  Cameroon | 0.217 TWh | |
92 |  Georgia | 0.104 TWh | |
93 |  Slovenia | 0.044 TWh | |
94 |  American Samoa | 0 TWh | |
95 |  Antigua and Barbuda | 0 TWh | |
96 |  Armenia | 0 TWh | |
97 |  Aruba | 0 TWh | |
98 |  Bahamas | 0 TWh | |
99 |  Belgium | 0 TWh | |
100 |  Belize | 0 TWh | |
101 |  Benin | 0 TWh | |
102 |  Bermuda | 0 TWh | |
103 |  Bhutan | 0 TWh | |
104 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 TWh | |
105 |  Botswana | 0 TWh | |
106 |  British Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
107 |  Burkina Faso | 0 TWh | |
108 |  Burundi | 0 TWh | |
109 |  Cambodia | 0 TWh | |
110 |  Cabo Verde | 0 TWh | |
111 |  Cayman Islands | 0 TWh | |
112 |  Central African Republic | 0 TWh | |
113 |  Chad | 0 TWh | |
114 |  Comoros | 0 TWh | |
115 |  Cook Islands | 0 TWh | |
116 |  Costa Rica | 0 TWh | |
117 |  Cyprus | 0 TWh | |
118 |  Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 0 TWh | |
119 |  Djibouti | 0 TWh | |
120 |  Dominica | 0 TWh | |
121 |  Dominican Republic | 0 TWh | |
122 |  El Salvador | 0 TWh | |
123 |  Eritrea | 0 TWh | |
124 |  Estonia | 0 TWh | |
125 |  Eswatini | 0 TWh | |
126 |  Ethiopia | 0 TWh | |
127 |  Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 0 TWh | |
128 |  Faroe Islands | 0 TWh | |
129 |  Fiji | 0 TWh | |
130 |  Finland | 0 TWh | |
131 |  French Guiana | 0 TWh | |
132 |  French Polynesia | 0 TWh | |
133 |  Gambia | 0 TWh | |
134 |  Ghana | 0 TWh | |
135 |  Gibraltar | 0 TWh | |
136 |  Greenland | 0 TWh | |
137 |  Grenada | 0 TWh | |
138 |  Guadeloupe | 0 TWh | |
139 |  Guam | 0 TWh | |
140 |  Guatemala | 0 TWh | |
141 |  Guinea | 0 TWh | |
142 |  Guinea-Bissau | 0 TWh | |
143 |  Guyana | 0 TWh | |
144 |  Haiti | 0 TWh | |
145 |  Honduras | 0 TWh | |
146 |  China, Hong Kong SAR | 0 TWh | |
147 |  Iceland | 0 TWh | |
148 |  Jamaica | 0 TWh | |
149 |  Kenya | 0 TWh | |
150 |  Kiribati | 0 TWh | |
151 |  Laos | 0 TWh | |
152 |  Latvia | 0 TWh | |
153 |  Lebanon | 0 TWh | |
154 |  Lesotho | 0 TWh | |
155 |  Liberia | 0 TWh | |
156 |  Lithuania | 0 TWh | |
157 |  Luxembourg | 0 TWh | |
158 |  China, Macao SAR | 0 TWh | |
159 |  Madagascar | 0 TWh | |
160 |  Malawi | 0 TWh | |
161 |  Maldives | 0 TWh | |
162 |  Mali | 0 TWh | |
163 |  Malta | 0 TWh | |
164 |  Martinique | 0 TWh | |
165 |  Mauritania | 0 TWh | |
166 |  Mauritius | 0 TWh | |
167 |  Micronesia (Fed. States of) | 0 TWh | |
168 |  Mongolia | 0 TWh | |
169 |  Montenegro | 0 TWh | |
170 |  Montserrat | 0 TWh | |
171 |  Namibia | 0 TWh | |
172 |  Nauru | 0 TWh | |
173 |  Nepal | 0 TWh | |
174 |  New Caledonia | 0 TWh | |
175 |  Nicaragua | 0 TWh | |
176 |  Niger | 0 TWh | |
177 |  Niue | 0 TWh | |
178 |  North Korea | 0 TWh | |
179 |  North Macedonia | 0 TWh | |
180 |  Northern Mariana Islands | 0 TWh | |
181 |  State of Palestine | 0 TWh | |
182 |  Panama | 0 TWh | |
183 |  Paraguay | 0 TWh | |
184 |  Portugal | 0 TWh | |
185 |  Puerto Rico | 0 TWh | |
186 |  Réunion | 0 TWh | |
187 |  Rwanda | 0 TWh | |
188 |  Saint Helena | 0 TWh | |
189 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 TWh | |
190 |  Saint Lucia | 0 TWh | |
191 |  Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 0 TWh | |
192 |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 TWh | |
193 |  Samoa | 0 TWh | |
194 |  Sao Tome and Principe | 0 TWh | |
195 |  Seychelles | 0 TWh | |
196 |  Sierra Leone | 0 TWh | |
197 |  Singapore | 0 TWh | |
198 |  Solomon Islands | 0 TWh | |
199 |  Somalia | 0 TWh | |
200 |  Sri Lanka | 0 TWh | |
201 |  Sudan | 0 TWh | |
202 |  Suriname | 0 TWh | |
203 |  Sweden | 0 TWh | |
204 |  Switzerland | 0 TWh | |
205 |  Togo | 0 TWh | |
206 |  Tonga | 0 TWh | |
207 |  Turks and Caicos Islands | 0 TWh | |
208 |  Tuvalu | 0 TWh | |
209 |  Uganda | 0 TWh | |
210 |  United States Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
211 |  Uruguay | 0 TWh | |
212 |  Vanuatu | 0 TWh | |
213 |  Western Sahara | 0 TWh | |
214 |  Yemen | 0 TWh | |
215 |  Zambia | 0 TWh | |
216 |  Zimbabwe | 0 TWh |
- #1Russia
- #2United States
- #3Canada
- #4Iran
- #5Norway
- #6United Kingdom
- #7Algeria
- #8Indonesia
- #9Saudi Arabia
- #10Malaysia
Analysis: These countries represent the highest values in this dataset, showcasing significant scale and impact on global statistics.
- #216Zimbabwe
- #215Zambia
- #214Yemen
- #213Western Sahara
- #212Vanuatu
- #211Uruguay
- #210United States Virgin Islands
- #209Uganda
- #208Tuvalu
- #207Turks 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 production | Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy and others via Our World in Data
Data produced by Energy Institute – Statistical Review of World Energy; Etemad & Luciani; U.S. Energy Information Administration, compiled and published by Our World in Data as "Gas production".
Visit Data SourceCite this page
Geo Factbook. (n.d.). Natural Gas Production by Country, 2006. Retrieved November 13, 2026, from https://geofactbook.com/fact/natural-gas-production/2006
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