Oil Production 1997
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Rank | Actions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1 |  Saudi Arabia | 5,024.416 TWh | |
2 |  United States | 4,418.819 TWh | |
3 |  Russia | 3,575.295 TWh | |
4 |  Iran | 2,174.376 TWh | |
5 |  Venezuela | 1,994.768 TWh | |
6 |  Mexico | 1,972.675 TWh | |
7 |  China | 1,862.312 TWh | |
8 |  Norway | 1,816.931 TWh | |
9 |  United Kingdom | 1,487.279 TWh | |
10 |  Canada | 1,403.789 TWh | |
11 |  United Arab Emirates | 1,364.287 TWh | |
12 |  Kuwait | 1,222.479 TWh | |
13 |  Nigeria | 1,122.762 TWh | |
14 |  Indonesia | 880.521 TWh | |
15 |  Libya | 815.155 TWh | |
16 |  Algeria | 716.025 TWh | |
17 |  Iraq | 664.59 TWh | |
18 |  Brazil | 530.283 TWh | |
19 |  Oman | 522.303 TWh | |
20 |  Egypt | 509.301 TWh | |
21 |  Argentina | 504.574 TWh | |
22 |  Angola | 424.495 TWh | |
23 |  India | 413.854 TWh | |
24 |  Colombia | 405.163 TWh | |
25 |  Malaysia | 389.577 TWh | |
26 |  Qatar | 386.965 TWh | |
27 |  Australia | 346.435 TWh | |
28 |  Syrian Arab Republic | 333.397 TWh | |
29 |  Kazakhstan | 299.81 TWh | |
30 |  Ecuador | 245.208 TWh | |
31 |  Gabon | 211.596 TWh | |
32 |  Yemen | 206.144 TWh | |
33 |  Congo | 134.745 TWh | |
34 |  Denmark | 130.352 TWh | |
35 |  Bahrain | 123.289 TWh | |
36 |  Vietnam | 117.347 TWh | |
37 |  Azerbaijan | 104.984 TWh | |
38 |  Brunei Darussalam | 92.582 TWh | |
39 |  Uzbekistan | 91.772 TWh | |
40 |  Romania | 78.503 TWh | |
41 |  Trinidad and Tobago | 74.868 TWh | |
42 |  Cameroon | 74.425 TWh | |
43 |  Peru | 72.595 TWh | |
44 |  Italy | 69.291 TWh | |
45 |  Turkmenistan | 62.43 TWh | |
46 |  Ukraine | 51.575 TWh | |
47 |  Thailand | 49.892 TWh | |
48 |  Tunisia | 48.346 TWh | |
49 |  Papua New Guinea | 47.986 TWh | |
50 |  New Zealand | 37.096 TWh | |
51 |  Netherlands | 35.602 TWh | |
52 |  Germany | 34.97 TWh | |
53 |  Pakistan | 34.608 TWh | |
54 |  Equatorial Guinea | 34.559 TWh | |
55 |  France | 27.054 TWh | |
56 |  Hungary | 23.711 TWh | |
57 |  Bolivia | 23.21 TWh | |
58 |  Belarus | 22.716 TWh | |
59 |  Croatia | 22.052 TWh | |
60 |  Cuba | 17.782 TWh | |
61 |  Congo, Democratic Republic of the | 17.608 TWh | |
62 |  Guatemala | 12.724 TWh | |
63 |  Austria | 12.309 TWh | |
64 |  Japan | 9.058 TWh | |
65 |  Côte d'Ivoire | 8.835 TWh | |
66 |  Greece | 5.863 TWh | |
67 |  Chile | 5.495 TWh | |
68 |  Suriname | 5.409 TWh | |
69 |  Sudan | 5.156 TWh | |
70 |  Myanmar | 5.152 TWh | |
71 |  Albania | 4.823 TWh | |
72 |  Spain | 4.639 TWh | |
73 |  Ghana | 4.445 TWh | |
74 |  South Africa | 3.994 TWh | |
75 |  Poland | 3.612 TWh | |
76 |  Czech Republic | 2.177 TWh | |
77 |  Georgia | 1.761 TWh | |
78 |  Bangladesh | 1.546 TWh | |
79 |  Kyrgyzstan | 1.066 TWh | |
80 |  Slovakia | 0.857 TWh | |
81 |  Taiwan | 0.676 TWh | |
82 |  Benin | 0.657 TWh | |
83 |  Israel | 0.633 TWh | |
84 |  Barbados | 0.628 TWh | |
85 |  Morocco | 0.614 TWh | |
86 |  Philippines | 0.505 TWh | |
87 |  Bulgaria | 0.503 TWh | |
88 |  Tajikistan | 0.327 TWh | |
89 |  Afghanistan | 0 TWh | |
90 |  American Samoa | 0 TWh | |
91 |  Antigua and Barbuda | 0 TWh | |
92 |  Armenia | 0 TWh | |
93 |  Aruba | 0 TWh | |
94 |  Bahamas | 0 TWh | |
95 |  Belgium | 0 TWh | |
96 |  Belize | 0 TWh | |
97 |  Bermuda | 0 TWh | |
98 |  Bhutan | 0 TWh | |
99 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 TWh | |
100 |  Botswana | 0 TWh | |
101 |  British Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
102 |  Burkina Faso | 0 TWh | |
103 |  Burundi | 0 TWh | |
104 |  Cambodia | 0 TWh | |
105 |  Cabo Verde | 0 TWh | |
106 |  Cayman Islands | 0 TWh | |
107 |  Central African Republic | 0 TWh | |
108 |  Chad | 0 TWh | |
109 |  Comoros | 0 TWh | |
110 |  Cook Islands | 0 TWh | |
111 |  Costa Rica | 0 TWh | |
112 |  Cyprus | 0 TWh | |
113 |  Djibouti | 0 TWh | |
114 |  Dominica | 0 TWh | |
115 |  Dominican Republic | 0 TWh | |
116 |  El Salvador | 0 TWh | |
117 |  Eritrea | 0 TWh | |
118 |  Estonia | 0 TWh | |
119 |  Eswatini | 0 TWh | |
120 |  Ethiopia | 0 TWh | |
121 |  Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 0 TWh | |
122 |  Faroe Islands | 0 TWh | |
123 |  Fiji | 0 TWh | |
124 |  Finland | 0 TWh | |
125 |  French Guiana | 0 TWh | |
126 |  French Polynesia | 0 TWh | |
127 |  Gambia | 0 TWh | |
128 |  Gibraltar | 0 TWh | |
129 |  Greenland | 0 TWh | |
130 |  Grenada | 0 TWh | |
131 |  Guadeloupe | 0 TWh | |
132 |  Guam | 0 TWh | |
133 |  Guinea | 0 TWh | |
134 |  Guinea-Bissau | 0 TWh | |
135 |  Guyana | 0 TWh | |
136 |  Haiti | 0 TWh | |
137 |  Honduras | 0 TWh | |
138 |  China, Hong Kong SAR | 0 TWh | |
139 |  Iceland | 0 TWh | |
140 |  Ireland | 0 TWh | |
141 |  Jamaica | 0 TWh | |
142 |  Jordan | 0 TWh | |
143 |  Kenya | 0 TWh | |
144 |  Kiribati | 0 TWh | |
145 |  Laos | 0 TWh | |
146 |  Latvia | 0 TWh | |
147 |  Lebanon | 0 TWh | |
148 |  Lesotho | 0 TWh | |
149 |  Liberia | 0 TWh | |
150 |  Lithuania | 0 TWh | |
151 |  Luxembourg | 0 TWh | |
152 |  China, Macao SAR | 0 TWh | |
153 |  Madagascar | 0 TWh | |
154 |  Malawi | 0 TWh | |
155 |  Maldives | 0 TWh | |
156 |  Mali | 0 TWh | |
157 |  Malta | 0 TWh | |
158 |  Martinique | 0 TWh | |
159 |  Mauritania | 0 TWh | |
160 |  Mauritius | 0 TWh | |
161 |  Micronesia (Fed. States of) | 0 TWh | |
162 |  Republic of Moldova | 0 TWh | |
163 |  Mongolia | 0 TWh | |
164 |  Montserrat | 0 TWh | |
165 |  Mozambique | 0 TWh | |
166 |  Namibia | 0 TWh | |
167 |  Nauru | 0 TWh | |
168 |  Nepal | 0 TWh | |
169 |  New Caledonia | 0 TWh | |
170 |  Nicaragua | 0 TWh | |
171 |  Niger | 0 TWh | |
172 |  Niue | 0 TWh | |
173 |  North Korea | 0 TWh | |
174 |  North Macedonia | 0 TWh | |
175 |  Northern Mariana Islands | 0 TWh | |
176 |  State of Palestine | 0 TWh | |
177 |  Panama | 0 TWh | |
178 |  Paraguay | 0 TWh | |
179 |  Portugal | 0 TWh | |
180 |  Puerto Rico | 0 TWh | |
181 |  Réunion | 0 TWh | |
182 |  Rwanda | 0 TWh | |
183 |  Saint Helena | 0 TWh | |
184 |  Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0 TWh | |
185 |  Saint Lucia | 0 TWh | |
186 |  Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 0 TWh | |
187 |  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 TWh | |
188 |  Samoa | 0 TWh | |
189 |  Sao Tome and Principe | 0 TWh | |
190 |  Senegal | 0 TWh | |
191 |  Seychelles | 0 TWh | |
192 |  Sierra Leone | 0 TWh | |
193 |  Singapore | 0 TWh | |
194 |  Slovenia | 0 TWh | |
195 |  Solomon Islands | 0 TWh | |
196 |  Somalia | 0 TWh | |
197 |  South Korea | 0 TWh | |
198 |  Sri Lanka | 0 TWh | |
199 |  Sweden | 0 TWh | |
200 |  Switzerland | 0 TWh | |
201 |  Tanzania | 0 TWh | |
202 |  Togo | 0 TWh | |
203 |  Tonga | 0 TWh | |
204 |  Turkey | 0 TWh | |
205 |  Turks and Caicos Islands | 0 TWh | |
206 |  Tuvalu | 0 TWh | |
207 |  Uganda | 0 TWh | |
208 |  United States Virgin Islands | 0 TWh | |
209 |  Uruguay | 0 TWh | |
210 |  Vanuatu | 0 TWh | |
211 |  Western Sahara | 0 TWh | |
212 |  Zambia | 0 TWh | |
213 |  Zimbabwe | 0 TWh |
- #1Saudi Arabia
- #2United States
- #3Russia
- #4Iran
- #5Venezuela
- #6Mexico
- #7China
- #8Norway
- #9United Kingdom
- #10Canada
Analysis: These countries represent the highest values in this dataset, showcasing significant scale and impact on global statistics.
- #213Zimbabwe
- #212Zambia
- #211Western Sahara
- #210Vanuatu
- #209Uruguay
- #208United States Virgin Islands
- #207Uganda
- #206Tuvalu
- #205Turks and Caicos Islands
- #204Turkey
Context: These countries or territories have the lowest values, often due to geographic size, administrative status, or specific characteristics.
Data Source
Oil 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 "Oil production".
Visit Data SourceCite this page
Geo Factbook. (n.d.). Oil Production by Country, 1997. Retrieved November 13, 2026, from https://geofactbook.com/fact/oil-production/1997
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