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Rank	Country	Oil - consumption (bbl/day)
1	United States	19,150,000
2	China	9,400,000
3	Japan	4,452,000
4	India	3,182,000
5	Saudi Arabia	2,643,000
6	Germany	2,495,000
7	Canada	2,209,000
8	Russia	2,199,000
9	Korea, South	2,195,000
10	Mexico	2,073,000
11	Brazil	2,029,000
12	France	1,861,000
13	Iran	1,845,000
14	United Kingdom	1,622,000
15	Italy	1,528,000
16	Spain	1,441,000
17	Indonesia	1,292,000
18	Singapore	1,080,000
19	Netherlands	1,009,000
20	Taiwan	1,002,000
21	Thailand	988,000
22	Australia	960,800
23	Venezuela	746,000
24	Egypt	740,000
25	Iraq	694,000
26	Turkey	646,300
27	Belgium	622,600
28	Argentina	618,000
29	Poland	564,500
30	Malaysia	556,000
31	South Africa	553,000
32	United Arab Emirates	545,000
33	Pakistan	410,000
34	Greece	371,300
35	Kuwait	354,000
36	Sweden	351,100
37	Vietnam	321,500
38	Algeria	312,000
39	Philippines	310,000
40	Hong Kong	303,800
41	Chile	302,700
42	Colombia	296,000
43	Ukraine	296,000
44	Syria	292,000
45	Libya	289,000
46	Nigeria	279,000
47	Austria	277,900
48	Portugal	277,400
49	Switzerland	242,700
50	Israel	238,000
51	Norway	221,300
52	Kazakhstan	218,000
53	Finland	217,400
54	Morocco	209,000
55	Romania	196,000
56	Czech Republic	195,700
57	Peru	189,000
58	Cuba	176,000
59	Ecuador	166,300
60	Qatar	166,000
61	Belarus	163,000
62	Yemen	157,000
63	Puerto Rico	150,000
64	New Zealand	149,700
65	Hungary	146,600
66	Ireland	143,100
67	Oman	142,000
68	Denmark	140,900
69	Turkmenistan	125,000
70	Dominican Republic	119,000
71	Lebanon	106,000
72	Azerbaijan	104,000
73	Uzbekistan	104,000
74	Sudan	98,000
75	Bangladesh	98,000
76	Jordan	98,000
77	Panama	97,000
78	Sri Lanka	92,000
79	Bulgaria	91,000
80	Virgin Islands	85,000
81	Tunisia	84,000
82	Slovakia	83,810
83	Kenya	78,000
84	Angola	74,000
85	Guatemala	71,000
86	Croatia	68,510
87	Lithuania	67,000
88	Jamaica	63,000
89	Slovenia	63,000
90	Luxembourg	60,500
91	Ghana	60,000
92	El Salvador	57,280
93	Armenia	52,000
94	Honduras	51,000
95	Serbia	50,280
96	Bahrain	47,000
97	Ethiopia	47,000
98	Costa Rica	47,000
99	Uruguay	45,200
100	Bolivia	44,430
101	Senegal	41,000
102	Trinidad and Tobago	41,000
103	Tajikistan	40,000
104	Tanzania	38,000
105	Burma	37,000
106	Bahamas, The	35,000
107	Albania	33,000
108	Papua New Guinea	33,000
109	Cambodia	32,000
110	Estonia	31,000
111	Paraguay	31,000
112	Nicaragua	30,000
113	Cameroon	30,000
114	Latvia	29,880
115	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28,500
116	Benin	25,000
117	Gibraltar	25,000
118	Cote d'Ivoire	25,000
119	Namibia	24,000
120	West Bank	24,000
121	Togo	23,000
122	Mauritius	23,000
123	Madagascar	22,000
124	Moldova	20,000
125	Mauritania	20,000
126	Nepal	20,000
127	Malta	19,000
128	Macedonia	19,000
129	Gabon	18,000
130	Iceland	17,430
131	Mongolia	17,000
132	Macau	17,000
133	Mozambique	17,000
134	Brunei	17,000
135	Kyrgyzstan	16,000
136	Zambia	16,000
137	Suriname	15,000
138	Botswana	15,000
139	Fiji	15,000
140	New Caledonia	14,000
141	Uganda	14,000
142	Korea, North	13,000
143	Georgia	13,000
144	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	13,000
145	Djibouti	12,000
146	Haiti	12,000
147	Congo, Republic of the	11,000
148	Zimbabwe	11,000
149	Guyana	10,000
150	Guinea	9,000
151	Barbados	9,000
152	Guam	9,000
153	Burkina Faso	9,000
154	Sierra Leone	9,000
155	Seychelles	8,000
156	French Polynesia	8,000
157	Aruba	8,000
158	Malawi	8,000
159	Belize	7,000
160	Eritrea	6,000
161	Mali	6,000
162	Maldives	6,000
163	Niger	6,000
164	Rwanda	6,000
165	Somalia	5,000
166	Antigua and Barbuda	5,000
167	Bermuda	5,000
168	Afghanistan	4,800
169	Liberia	4,500
170	Faroe Islands	4,492
171	American Samoa	4,400
172	Greenland	4,000
173	Montenegro	4,000
174	Swaziland	4,000
175	Saint Lucia	3,000
176	Guinea-Bissau	3,000
177	Laos	3,000
178	Grenada	3,000
179	Cayman Islands	3,000
180	Burundi	3,000
181	East Timor	2,600
182	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2,000
183	Western Sahara	2,000
184	Saint Kitts and Nevis	2,000
185	Chad	2,000
186	Solomon Islands	2,000
187	Central African Republic	2,000
188	Cape Verde	2,000
189	Equatorial Guinea	2,000
190	Gambia, The	2,000
191	Lesotho	2,000
192	Nauru	1,300
193	Vanuatu	1,000
194	Montserrat	1,000
195	Dominica	1,000
196	Cook Islands	1,000
197	Comoros	1,000
198	Bhutan	1,000
199	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	1,000
200	Sao Tome and Principe	1,000
201	Tonga	1,000
202	Samoa	1,000
203	British Virgin Islands	1,000
204	Turks and Caicos Islands	500
205	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	300
206	Kiribati	300
207	Saint Helena	100
208	Niue	40

Definition: This entry is the total oil consumed in barrels per day (bbl/day). The discrepancy between the amount of oil produced and/or imported and the amount consumed and/or exported is due to the omission of stock changes, refinery gains, and other complicating factors.

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

See also: Oil - consumption map

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