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Rank	Country	Oil - proved reserves (bbl)
1	Saudi Arabia	262,600,000,000
2	Venezuela	211,200,000,000
3	Canada	175,200,000,000
4	Iran	137,000,000,000
5	Iraq	115,000,000,000
6	Kuwait	104,000,000,000
7	United Arab Emirates	97,800,000,000
8	Russia	60,000,000,000
9	Libya	46,420,000,000
10	Nigeria	37,200,000,000
11	Kazakhstan	30,000,000,000
12	Qatar	25,380,000,000
13	United States	20,680,000,000
14	China	14,800,000,000
15	Brazil	12,860,000,000
16	Algeria	12,200,000,000
17	Mexico	10,420,000,000
18	Angola	9,500,000,000
19	Azerbaijan	7,000,000,000
20	Ecuador	6,510,000,000
21	Malaysia	5,800,000,000
22	India	5,682,000,000
23	Norway	5,670,000,000
24	Oman	5,500,000,000
25	Sudan	5,000,000,000
26	Egypt	4,400,000,000
27	Indonesia	3,990,000,000
28	Australia	3,318,000,000
29	Yemen	3,000,000,000
30	United Kingdom	2,858,000,000
31	Argentina	2,505,000,000
32	Syria	2,500,000,000
33	Gabon	2,000,000,000
34	Colombia	1,900,000,000
35	Congo, Republic of the	1,600,000,000
36	Chad	1,500,000,000
37	Denmark	1,164,000,000
38	Equatorial Guinea	1,100,000,000
39	Brunei	1,100,000,000
40	Uganda	1,000,000,000
41	Trinidad and Tobago	728,300,000
42	Ghana	660,000,000
43	Romania	600,000,000
44	Turkmenistan	600,000,000
45	Vietnam	600,000,000
46	Uzbekistan	594,000,000
47	East Timor	553,800,000
48	Peru	532,700,000
49	Italy	476,500,000
50	Bolivia	465,000,000
51	Thailand	435,000,000
52	Tunisia	425,000,000
53	Ukraine	395,000,000
54	Pakistan	313,000,000
55	Netherlands	310,000,000
56	Germany	276,000,000
57	Turkey	270,400,000
58	Cameroon	200,000,000
59	Albania	199,100,000
60	Belarus	198,000,000
61	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	180,000,000
62	Chile	150,000,000
63	Spain	150,000,000
64	Philippines	138,500,000
65	Bahrain	124,600,000
66	Cuba	124,000,000
67	New Zealand	112,500,000
68	Mauritania	100,000,000
69	Cote d'Ivoire	100,000,000
70	Poland	96,380,000
71	France	91,630,000
72	Papua New Guinea	88,000,000
73	Guatemala	83,070,000
74	Suriname	78,900,000
75	Serbia	77,500,000
76	Croatia	66,000,000
77	Austria	50,000,000
78	Burma	50,000,000
79	Japan	44,120,000
80	Kyrgyzstan	40,000,000
81	Georgia	35,000,000
82	Bangladesh	28,000,000
83	Hungary	26,570,000
84	Bulgaria	15,000,000
85	Czech Republic	15,000,000
86	South Africa	15,000,000
87	Tajikistan	12,000,000
88	Lithuania	12,000,000
89	Greece	10,000,000
90	Slovakia	9,000,000
91	Benin	8,000,000
92	Belize	6,700,000
93	Taiwan	2,380,000
94	Israel	1,940,000
95	Barbados	1,790,000
96	Jordan	1,000,000
97	Morocco	680,000
98	Ethiopia	430,000
99	Iceland	0
100	Guinea	0
101	Guyana	0
102	Gaza Strip	0
103	Haiti	0
104	Hong Kong	0
105	Honduras	0
106	Jamaica	0
107	Kenya	0
108	Korea, North	0
109	Kiribati	0
110	Laos	0
111	Lebanon	0
112	Latvia	0
113	Madagascar	0
114	Macau	0
115	Moldova	0
116	Mongolia	0
117	Montserrat	0
118	Malawi	0
119	Montenegro	0
120	Macedonia	0
121	Mali	0
122	Mauritius	0
123	Malta	0
124	Lesotho	0
125	Luxembourg	0
126	Liberia	0
127	Maldives	0
128	Mozambique	0
129	New Caledonia	0
130	Niue	0
131	Niger	0
132	Vanuatu	0
133	Puerto Rico	0
134	Guinea-Bissau	0
135	Paraguay	0
136	Nicaragua	0
137	Nepal	0
138	Nauru	0
139	Panama	0
140	Portugal	0
141	Botswana	0
142	Bermuda	0
143	Belgium	0
144	Bahamas, The	0
145	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0
146	Armenia	0
147	American Samoa	0
148	Aruba	0
149	Antigua and Barbuda	0
150	Afghanistan	0
151	Solomon Islands	0
152	Bhutan	0
153	Sri Lanka	0
154	Burundi	0
155	Cambodia	0
156	Finland	0
157	Fiji	0
158	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	0
159	Faroe Islands	0
160	French Polynesia	0
161	Gambia, The	0
162	Ireland	0
163	Guam	0
164	Gibraltar	0
165	Grenada	0
166	Greenland	0
167	Cape Verde	0
168	Cook Islands	0
169	Costa Rica	0
170	Central African Republic	0
171	Cayman Islands	0
172	Comoros	0
173	Estonia	0
174	Eritrea	0
175	El Salvador	0
176	Djibouti	0
177	Dominica	0
178	Dominican Republic	0
179	Tanzania	0
180	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
181	Tonga	0
182	Togo	0
183	Sao Tome and Principe	0
184	Senegal	0
185	Saint Helena	0
186	Slovenia	0
187	Sierra Leone	0
188	Singapore	0
189	Somalia	0
190	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0
191	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0
192	Seychelles	0
193	Saint Lucia	0
194	Rwanda	0
195	Switzerland	0
196	Sweden	0
197	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0
198	Burkina Faso	0
199	Uruguay	0
200	Virgin Islands	0
201	Namibia	0
202	West Bank	0
203	Western Sahara	0
204	Samoa	0
205	Swaziland	0
206	Zambia	0
207	Zimbabwe	0
208	British Virgin Islands	0

Definition: This entry is the stock of proved reserves of crude oil in barrels (bbl). Proved reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated with a high degree of confidence to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward, from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.

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

See also: Oil - proved reserves map

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