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  Rank Order - Natural gas - proved reserves


Countries for which no information is available are not included in this list.
Rank
Country
Natural gas - proved reserves
(cu m)
Date of Information
1
World 161,200,000,000,000 1 January 2002
2
Russia 47,860,000,000,000 1 January 2002
3
Iran 24,800,000,000,000 1 January 2002
4
Qatar 17,930,000,000,000 1 January 2002
5
Saudi Arabia 6,339,000,000,000 1 January 2002
6
United Arab Emirates 5,892,000,000,000 1 January 2002
7
United States 5,195,000,000,000 1 January 2002
8
Algeria 4,739,000,000,000 1 January 2002
9
Venezuela 4,202,000,000,000 1 January 2002
10
Nigeria 4,007,000,000,000 1 January 2002
11
European Union 3,262,000,000,000 1 January 2002
12
Iraq 3,149,000,000,000 1 January 2002
13
Indonesia 2,549,000,000,000 1 January 2002
14
Australia 2,407,000,000,000 1 January 2002
15
Malaysia 2,230,000,000,000 1 January 2002
16
Norway 1,716,000,000,000 1 January 2002
17
Netherlands 1,693,000,000,000 1 January 2002
18
Canada 1,691,000,000,000 1 January 2002
19
Kuwait 1,548,000,000,000 1 January 2002
20
Turkmenistan 1,430,000,000,000 1 January 2002
21
Libya 1,321,000,000,000 1 January 2002
22
China 1,290,000,000,000 1 January 2002
23
Egypt 1,264,000,000,000 1 January 2002
24
Mexico 969,200,000,000 1 January 2003
25
Uzbekistan 937,300,000,000 1 January 2002
26
Kazakhstan 920,300,000,000 1 January 2002
27
Oman 846,400,000,000 1 January 2002
28
Argentina 768,000,000,000 1 January 2002
29
Bolivia 727,200,000,000 1 January 2002
30
United Kingdom 714,900,000,000 1 January 2002
31
Pakistan 695,600,000,000 1 January 2002
32
Trinidad and Tobago 589,000,000,000 1 January 2004
33
Ukraine 560,700,000,000 1 January 2002
34
India 542,400,000,000 1 January 2002
35
Yemen 480,000,000,000 1 January 2002
36
Papua New Guinea 385,500,000,000 1 January 2002
37
Thailand 368,200,000,000 1 January 2003
38
Brunei 315,000,000,000 1 January 2002
39
Burma 314,400,000,000 1 January 2003
40
Germany 298,300,000,000 1 January 2002
41
Peru 245,100,000,000 1 January 2002
42
Syria 240,700,000,000 1 January 2002
43
Brazil 221,700,000,000 1 January 2002
44
Italy 209,700,000,000 1 January 2002
45
Vietnam 192,600,000,000 1 January 2002
46
Poland 154,400,000,000 1 January 2002
47
Bangladesh 150,300,000,000 1 January 2002
48
Colombia 132,000,000,000 1 January 2002
49
Romania 111,100,000,000 1 January 2002
50
Ecuador 106,500,000,000 1 January 2002
51
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 104,800,000,000 1 January 2002
52
Philippines 104,600,000,000 1 January 2002
53
Sudan 99,110,000,000 1 January 2002
54
Denmark 81,980,000,000 1 January 2002
55
Angola 79,570,000,000 1 January 2002
56
Tunisia 77,160,000,000 1 January 2002
57
Equatorial Guinea 68,530,000,000 1 January 2002
58
Chile 67,780,000,000 1 January 2002
59
Gabon 66,470,000,000 1 January 2002
60
Mozambique 63,710,000,000 1 January 2002
61
Azerbaijan 62,300,000,000 1 January 2002
62
New Zealand 58,940,000,000 1 January 2002
63
Cameroon 55,220,000,000 1 January 2002
64
Hungary 50,450,000,000 1 January 2002
65
Afghanistan 49,980,000,000 1 January 2002
66
Bahrain 46,000,000,000 1 January 2003
67
Cuba 42,620,000,000 1 January 2002
68
Taiwan 38,230,000,000 1 January 2002
69
Croatia 34,360,000,000 1 January 2002
70
Namibia 31,150,000,000 1 January 2002
71
Rwanda 28,320,000,000 1 January 2002
72
Austria 24,900,000,000 1 January 2002
73
Serbia and Montenegro 24,070,000,000 1 January 2002
74
Israel 20,810,000,000 1 January 2002
75
Japan 20,020,000,000 1 January 2002
76
Cote d'Ivoire 14,870,000,000 1 January 2002
77
South Africa 14,160,000,000 1 January 2002
78
France 12,860,000,000 1 January 2002
79
Ethiopia 12,460,000,000 1 January 2002
80
Ghana 11,890,000,000 1 January 2002
81
Tanzania 11,330,000,000 1 January 2002
82
Ireland 9,911,000,000 1 January 2002
83
Turkey 8,685,000,000 1 January 2002
84
Slovakia 7,504,000,000 1 January 2002
85
Bulgaria 3,724,000,000 1 January 2002
86
Albania 3,316,000,000 1 January 2002
87
Jordan 3,256,000,000 1 January 2002
88
Czech Republic 3,057,000,000 1 January 2002
89
Somalia 2,832,000,000 1 January 2002
90
Guatemala 1,543,000,000 1 January 2002
91
Morocco 665,400,000 1 January 2002
92
Benin 608,800,000 1 January 2002
93
Congo, Republic of the 495,500,000 1 January 2002
94
Greece 254,900,000 1 January 2002
95
Spain 254,900,000 1 January 2002
96
Barbados 70,790,000 1 January 2002
97
Madagascar 0 1 January 2002
98
Suriname 0 1 January 2002

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