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Rank	Country	Natural gas - production (cubic meters)
1	United States	611,000,000,000
2	Russia	588,900,000,000
3	Canada	152,300,000,000
4	Iran	138,500,000,000
5	Qatar	116,700,000,000
6	Norway	106,300,000,000
7	China	102,500,000,000
8	Netherlands	85,170,000,000
9	Algeria	85,140,000,000
10	Saudi Arabia	83,940,000,000
11	Indonesia	82,800,000,000
12	Malaysia	66,500,000,000
13	Egypt	62,690,000,000
14	Uzbekistan	59,100,000,000
15	Mexico	59,070,000,000
16	United Kingdom	56,300,000,000
17	India	52,800,000,000
18	United Arab Emirates	48,840,000,000
19	Australia	45,110,000,000
20	Pakistan	42,900,000,000
21	Turkmenistan	42,400,000,000
22	Trinidad and Tobago	42,380,000,000
23	Argentina	40,100,000,000
24	Peru	31,120,000,000
25	Thailand	30,880,000,000
26	Oman	24,760,000,000
27	Brazil	24,070,000,000
28	Nigeria	23,210,000,000
29	Venezuela	22,900,000,000
30	Ukraine	20,260,000,000
31	Kazakhstan	20,200,000,000
32	Bangladesh	19,750,000,000
33	Azerbaijan	16,520,000,000
34	Libya	15,900,000,000
35	Bolivia	14,730,000,000
36	Germany	12,650,000,000
37	Bahrain	12,580,000,000
38	Burma	11,540,000,000
39	Brunei	11,500,000,000
40	Kuwait	11,490,000,000
41	Romania	10,590,000,000
42	Colombia	10,490,000,000
43	Vietnam	8,500,000,000
44	Italy	8,400,000,000
45	Denmark	8,087,000,000
46	Equatorial Guinea	6,270,000,000
47	Syria	6,190,000,000
48	Poland	6,084,000,000
49	New Zealand	4,481,000,000
50	Mozambique	3,600,000,000
51	Tunisia	3,600,000,000
52	Japan	3,397,000,000
53	Philippines	3,150,000,000
54	Croatia	2,507,000,000
55	Hungary	2,494,000,000
56	South Africa	1,900,000,000
57	Austria	1,716,000,000
58	Cote d'Ivoire	1,600,000,000
59	Israel	1,550,000,000
60	Chile	1,350,000,000
61	Iraq	1,300,000,000
62	Cuba	1,160,000,000
63	France	721,000,000
64	Angola	690,000,000
65	Turkey	674,000,000
66	Tanzania	658,000,000
67	Korea, South	539,300,000
68	Congo, Republic of the	530,000,000
69	Yemen	520,000,000
70	Serbia	517,000,000
71	Ireland	383,000,000
72	Ecuador	331,000,000
73	Taiwan	310,000,000
74	Jordan	250,000,000
75	Belarus	150,000,000
76	Papua New Guinea	130,000,000
77	Czech Republic	128,300,000
78	Slovakia	103,000,000
79	Gabon	80,000,000
80	Morocco	60,000,000
81	Bulgaria	54,000,000
82	Senegal	50,000,000
83	Spain	48,000,000
84	Tajikistan	38,000,000
85	Albania	30,000,000
86	Afghanistan	30,000,000
87	Cameroon	20,000,000
88	Kyrgyzstan	15,400,000
89	Georgia	10,000,000
90	Greece	1,000,000
91	Moldova	60,000
92	Aruba	1
93	Antigua and Barbuda	0
94	American Samoa	0
95	Armenia	0
96	Barbados	0
97	Botswana	0
98	Bermuda	0
99	Belgium	0
100	Bahamas, The	0
101	Solomon Islands	0
102	Bhutan	0
103	Benin	0
104	Belize	0
105	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
106	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0
107	Burundi	0
108	Cambodia	0
109	Chad	0
110	Sri Lanka	0
111	Ghana	0
112	Gibraltar	0
113	Grenada	0
114	Greenland	0
115	Gambia, The	0
116	Guam	0
117	Finland	0
118	Fiji	0
119	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0
120	Faroe Islands	0
121	French Polynesia	0
122	Estonia	0
123	Eritrea	0
124	El Salvador	0
125	Ethiopia	0
126	Comoros	0
127	Cayman Islands	0
128	Cape Verde	0
129	Cook Islands	0
130	Costa Rica	0
131	Central African Republic	0
132	Djibouti	0
133	Dominica	0
134	Dominican Republic	0
135	Mongolia	0
136	Montserrat	0
137	Malawi	0
138	Macedonia	0
139	Mali	0
140	Lesotho	0
141	Luxembourg	0
142	Madagascar	0
143	Macau	0
144	Korea, North	0
145	Kiribati	0
146	Kosovo	0
147	Laos	0
148	Lebanon	0
149	Latvia	0
150	Lithuania	0
151	Liberia	0
152	Guatemala	0
153	Guinea	0
154	Guyana	0
155	Haiti	0
156	Hong Kong	0
157	Honduras	0
158	Iceland	0
159	Kenya	0
160	Jamaica	0
161	Mauritius	0
162	Mauritania	0
163	Malta	0
164	Maldives	0
165	New Caledonia	0
166	Niue	0
167	Niger	0
168	Vanuatu	0
169	Nepal	0
170	Nauru	0
171	Suriname	0
172	Nicaragua	0
173	Guinea-Bissau	0
174	Puerto Rico	0
175	Rwanda	0
176	Paraguay	0
177	Panama	0
178	Portugal	0
179	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
180	Tonga	0
181	Togo	0
182	Sao Tome and Principe	0
183	Saint Helena	0
184	Slovenia	0
185	Sierra Leone	0
186	Singapore	0
187	Somalia	0
188	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
190	Seychelles	0
191	Saint Lucia	0
192	Sudan	0
193	Sweden	0
194	East Timor	0
195	Switzerland	0
196	Uganda	0
197	Burkina Faso	0
198	Uruguay	0
199	Zambia	0
200	Zimbabwe	0
201	Virgin Islands	0
202	Namibia	0
203	West Bank	0
204	Western Sahara	0
205	Samoa	0
206	Swaziland	0
207	British Virgin Islands	0
208	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0

Definition: This entry is the total natural gas produced in cubic meters (cu m). The discrepancy between the amount of natural gas produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes and other complicating factors.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of January 1, 2012

See also: Natural gas - production map

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