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Rank	Country	Natural gas - consumption (cubic meters)
1	United States	683,300,000,000
2	Russia	414,100,000,000
3	Iran	137,500,000,000
4	China	129,000,000,000
5	Japan	100,300,000,000
6	Germany	99,500,000,000
7	United Kingdom	94,280,000,000
8	Saudi Arabia	83,940,000,000
9	Canada	82,480,000,000
10	Italy	77,800,000,000
11	India	64,950,000,000
12	Mexico	62,420,000,000
13	United Arab Emirates	59,080,000,000
14	Netherlands	53,190,000,000
15	France	49,780,000,000
16	Uzbekistan	45,500,000,000
17	Egypt	44,370,000,000
18	Ukraine	44,160,000,000
19	Argentina	43,460,000,000
20	Korea, South	43,000,000,000
21	Pakistan	42,900,000,000
22	Indonesia	40,470,000,000
23	Thailand	39,170,000,000
24	Turkey	38,120,000,000
25	Spain	35,820,000,000
26	Malaysia	35,700,000,000
27	Algeria	29,860,000,000
28	Australia	26,410,000,000
29	Brazil	25,130,000,000
30	Venezuela	25,080,000,000
31	Turkmenistan	22,600,000,000
32	Trinidad and Tobago	21,970,000,000
33	Qatar	21,890,000,000
34	Bangladesh	20,100,000,000
35	Belgium	19,530,000,000
36	Belarus	17,750,000,000
37	Poland	17,200,000,000
38	Oman	14,720,000,000
39	Romania	12,880,000,000
40	Bahrain	12,580,000,000
41	Kuwait	12,380,000,000
42	Hungary	12,130,000,000
43	Taiwan	12,100,000,000
44	Azerbaijan	10,590,000,000
45	Kazakhstan	10,200,000,000
46	Vietnam	9,500,000,000
47	Austria	9,116,000,000
48	Colombia	8,690,000,000
49	Singapore	8,400,000,000
50	Czech Republic	8,075,000,000
51	Nigeria	7,216,000,000
52	Syria	7,100,000,000
53	Norway	6,600,000,000
54	Libya	6,010,000,000
55	Slovakia	5,900,000,000
56	Ireland	5,667,000,000
57	South Africa	5,400,000,000
58	Portugal	5,161,000,000
59	Denmark	4,914,000,000
60	Tunisia	4,850,000,000
61	Finland	4,782,000,000
62	New Zealand	4,481,000,000
63	Greece	3,824,000,000
64	Peru	3,650,000,000
65	Switzerland	3,625,000,000
66	Hong Kong	3,460,000,000
67	Israel	3,250,000,000
68	Burma	3,250,000,000
69	Moldova	3,176,000,000
70	Philippines	3,150,000,000
71	Lithuania	3,120,000,000
72	Jordan	3,100,000,000
73	Bolivia	3,010,000,000
74	Croatia	2,974,000,000
75	Chile	2,840,000,000
76	Brunei	2,690,000,000
77	Bulgaria	2,620,000,000
78	Serbia	2,510,000,000
79	Armenia	2,077,000,000
80	Georgia	1,710,000,000
81	Sweden	1,626,000,000
82	Cote d'Ivoire	1,600,000,000
83	Equatorial Guinea	1,550,000,000
84	Luxembourg	1,366,000,000
85	Iraq	1,300,000,000
86	Cuba	1,160,000,000
87	Slovenia	890,000,000
88	Puerto Rico	756,700,000
89	Estonia	701,000,000
90	Angola	690,000,000
91	Kyrgyzstan	665,400,000
92	Tanzania	658,000,000
93	Latvia	620,100,000
94	Morocco	560,000,000
95	Dominican Republic	560,000,000
96	Congo, Republic of the	530,000,000
97	Bosnia and Herzegovina	390,000,000
98	Ecuador	331,000,000
99	Tajikistan	227,000,000
100	Macau	154,700,000
101	Macedonia	136,800,000
102	Papua New Guinea	130,000,000
103	Mozambique	100,000,000
104	Yemen	100,000,000
105	Gabon	80,000,000
106	Senegal	50,000,000
107	Uruguay	45,700,000
108	Afghanistan	30,000,000
109	Albania	30,000,000
110	Cameroon	20,000,000
111	Aruba	1
112	Antigua and Barbuda	0
113	American Samoa	0
114	Barbados	0
115	Botswana	0
116	Bermuda	0
117	Bahamas, The	0
118	Belize	0
119	Benin	0
120	Solomon Islands	0
121	Bhutan	0
122	Burundi	0
123	Cambodia	0
124	Chad	0
125	Sri Lanka	0
126	Comoros	0
127	Costa Rica	0
128	Central African Republic	0
129	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	0
130	Cayman Islands	0
131	Eritrea	0
132	El Salvador	0
133	Ethiopia	0
134	Cape Verde	0
135	Cook Islands	0
136	Djibouti	0
137	Dominica	0
138	Gambia, The	0
139	Fiji	0
140	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0
141	Faroe Islands	0
142	French Polynesia	0
143	Ghana	0
144	Gibraltar	0
145	Grenada	0
146	Greenland	0
147	Guatemala	0
148	Guinea	0
149	Guyana	0
150	Haiti	0
151	Iceland	0
152	Honduras	0
153	Guam	0
154	Jamaica	0
155	Madagascar	0
156	Liberia	0
157	Lesotho	0
158	Korea, North	0
159	Kiribati	0
160	Kenya	0
161	Laos	0
162	Lebanon	0
163	Kosovo	0
164	New Caledonia	0
165	Niue	0
166	Niger	0
167	Vanuatu	0
168	Mali	0
169	Maldives	0
170	Mauritius	0
171	Mauritania	0
172	Malta	0
173	Mongolia	0
174	Montserrat	0
175	Malawi	0
176	Montenegro	0
177	Guinea-Bissau	0
178	Panama	0
179	Paraguay	0
180	Nepal	0
181	Nauru	0
182	Suriname	0
183	Nicaragua	0
184	Zambia	0
185	Zimbabwe	0
186	British Virgin Islands	0
187	Virgin Islands	0
188	Namibia	0
189	West Bank	0
190	Western Sahara	0
191	Samoa	0
192	Swaziland	0
193	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0
194	Burkina Faso	0
195	Saint Helena	0
196	Rwanda	0
197	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0
198	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
199	Seychelles	0
200	Sierra Leone	0
201	Somalia	0
202	Saint Lucia	0
203	Sudan	0
204	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
205	Tonga	0
206	Togo	0
207	Sao Tome and Principe	0
208	Uganda	0
209	East Timor	0

Definition: This entry is the total natural gas consumed 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 - consumption map

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