Natural Gas left in the world (BOE):

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Summary Table

Million Cubic ft
(MMcf)		Million BOE
(barrels of Oil equivalent)
Gas Reserves 6,922,922,000 1,153,820
Gas Consumption 132,290,211 22,048
(Data shown in the table is for 2017. Counter shows current estimate.)

World Gas Reserves

See also: List of countries by Gas Reserves

There are 6.923 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves in the world as of 2017.

The world has proven reserves equivalent to 143.4 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 143 years of gas left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).


Gas Reserves
6,922,922,000 MMcf
(1,153,820 million BOE)
52 years of natural gas left
(at current consumption levels)

History of World’s Proven Gas Reserves

World Gas Consumption

See also: List of countries by Gas Consumption

  • The world consumes 132,290,211 million cubic feet (MMcf) of natural gas per year as of the year 2017.
  • The world consumes 17,303 cubic feet of natural gas per capita every year (based on the 2017 world population of 7,645,617,954 people) or 47 cubic feet per capita per day.

History of Global Gas Consumption



# Country Gas Reserves
(MMcf) 		World
Share
1 Russia 1,688,228,000 24.39%
2 Iran 1,183,019,000 17.09%
3 Qatar 858,098,000 12.40%
4 United States 322,234,000 4.65%
5 Saudi Arabia 303,284,000 4.38%
6 Turkmenistan 265,000,000 3.83%
7 United Arab Emirates 215,098,000 3.11%
8 Venezuela 201,343,000 2.91%
9 Nigeria 186,610,000 2.70%
10 China 184,419,000 2.66%
11 Algeria 159,054,000 2.30%
12 Iraq 111,522,000 1.61%
13 Mozambique 100,000,000 1.44%
14 Indonesia 98,000,000 1.42%
15 Kazakhstan 85,000,000 1.23%
16 Egypt 77,200,000 1.12%
17 Canada 77,065,000 1.11%
18 Australia 70,230,000 1.01%
19 Norway 65,543,000 0.95%
20 Uzbekistan 65,000,000 0.94%
21 Kuwait 63,000,000 0.91%
22 Libya 53,144,000 0.77%
23 India 43,344,000 0.63%
24 Malaysia 41,765,000 0.60%
25 Ukraine 39,000,000 0.56%
26 Azerbaijan 35,000,000 0.51%
27 Netherlands 27,780,000 0.40%
28 Vietnam 24,700,000 0.36%
29 Oman 23,000,000 0.33%
30 Myanmar 22,500,000 0.33%
31 Pakistan 19,158,000 0.28%
32 Yemen 16,900,000 0.24%
33 Brazil 15,184,000 0.22%
34 Peru 14,090,000 0.20%
35 Mexico 12,064,000 0.17%
36 Argentina 11,174,000 0.16%
37 Angola 10,880,000 0.16%
38 Trinidad and Tobago 10,600,000 0.15%
39 Bolivia 10,450,000 0.15%
40 Brunei 9,200,000 0.13%
41 Syria 8,500,000 0.12%
42 United Kingdom 7,319,000 0.11%
43 Thailand 7,304,000 0.11%
44 Bangladesh 7,253,000 0.10%
45 Israel 6,216,000 0.090%
46 Papua New Guinea 4,996,000 0.072%
47 Cameroon 4,770,000 0.069%
48 Colombia 4,361,000 0.063%
49 Romania 3,725,000 0.054%
50 Philippines 3,480,000 0.050%
51 Chile 3,460,000 0.050%
52 Bahrain 3,250,000 0.047%
53 Congo 3,200,000 0.046%
54 Sudan 3,000,000 0.043%
55 Poland 2,884,000 0.042%
56 Cuba 2,500,000 0.036%
57 Tunisia 2,300,000 0.033%
58 Namibia 2,200,000 0.032%
59 Rwanda 2,000,000 0.029%
60 Afghanistan 1,750,000 0.025%
61 Italy 1,735,000 0.025%
62 Serbia 1,700,000 0.025%
63 Germany 1,483,000 0.021%
64 Equatorial Guinea 1,300,000 0.019%
65 New Zealand 1,267,000 0.018%
66 Côte d'Ivoire 1,000,000 0.014%
67 Gabon 1,000,000 0.014%
68 Mauritania 1,000,000 0.014%
69 Croatia 880,000 0.013%
70 Ethiopia 880,000 0.013%
71 Ghana 800,000 0.012%
72 Japan 738,000 0.011%
73 Denmark 565,000 0.0082%
74 Slovakia 500,000 0.0072%
75 Uganda 500,000 0.0072%
76 Ecuador 385,000 0.0056%
77 Ireland 350,000 0.0051%
78 France 304,000 0.0044%
79 Georgia 300,000 0.0043%
80 Hungary 272,000 0.0039%
81 South Korea 250,000 0.0036%
82 Austria 247,000 0.0036%
83 Tanzania 230,000 0.0033%
84 Taiwan 220,000 0.0032%
85 Jordan 213,000 0.0031%
86 Bulgaria 200,000 0.0029%
87 Kyrgyzstan 200,000 0.0029%
88 Somalia 200,000 0.0029%
89 Tajikistan 200,000 0.0029%
90 Czech Republic (Czechia) 140,000 0.0020%
91 Turkey 131,000 0.0019%
92 Belarus 100,000 0.0014%
93 Spain 90,000 0.0013%
94 Morocco 51,000 0.00074%
95 Benin 40,000 0.00058%
96 DR Congo 35,000 0.00051%
97 Greece 35,000 0.00051%
98 Albania 29,000 0.00042%
99 Barbados 4,000 0.000058%

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