The animation below starts in 1965 when the height of the Cold War – a time when it was becoming especially evident that the ability to produce oil self-sufficiently would be a significant advantage for any type of global superpower.

The Changing Oil Landscape

Country Crude petroleum Russian Federation 497,425 Saudi Arabia 487,969 United States 320,925 China 207,478 Iran, Islamic Republic of 165,436 Kuwait 148,833 Venezuela 147,824 Iraq 144,902 Mexico 132,183 United Arab Emirates 127,806 Canada 118,619 Nigeria 113,704 Brazil 95,652 Angola 85,433 Norway 78,453 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 70,013 Kazakhstan 66,475 Algeria 51,063 Oman 48,290 Colombia 47,686 Indonesia 42,987 United Kingdom 42,052 Azerbaijan 41,015 India 37,862 Qatar 35,797 Egypt 32,936 Argentina 28,324 Malaysia 28,133 Ecuador 26,355 Australia 19,785 Viet Nam 16,739 Equatorial Guinea 14,433.92 Congo 13,882 Gabon 12,235 Turkmenistan 10,942 Denmark 9,980 Bahrain 8,648 Syrian Arab Republic 8,253 Thailand 7,430 Yemen 7,396 Brunei Darussalam 7,280 Italy 5,397 Chad 5,211.20 Peru 5,180 Sudan 5,079 Trinidad and Tobago 4,225 Ghana 4,133.80 Timor-Leste 3,964.80 Romania 3,860 Pakistan 3,731 Tunisia 3,193 Uzbekistan 3,165 Cuba 2,999 Germany 2,602 Bolivia 2,534 Cameroon 2,496 Turkey 2,338 Ukraine 2,290 New Zealand 1,853 Belarus 1,660 Cote d’Ivoire 1,459 Congo, The

Democratic Republic of the 1,213 Serbia 1,125 Netherlands 1,111 Albania 1,031 Myanmar 846.58 Austria 839 Suriname 831.6752 France 807 Poland 681 Hungary 649 Niger 625.9 Guatemala 579 Croatia 549 Mongolia 497.2 Mauritania 330.1 Chile 290 Japan 240 Philippines 223.8 Czech Republic 156 Spain 142 Belize 138 Lithuania 102 Greece 94 Aruba 80 Kyrgyzstan 79 South Africa 53 Georgia 44 Barbados 37.2 Korea, Republic of 36 Mozambique 35 Tajikistan 29.8 Bulgaria 24 Israel 12 Moldova, Republic of 11 Slovakia 11 Morocco 7 Jordan 1.1 Papua New Guinea 0

Source: data.un.org & vividmaps.com

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