Petroleum efficiency among countries

There are two main ways to measure the petroleum efficiency of countries: by population or by GDP (gross domestic product). This metric is important in the global debate over oil consumption/energy consumption/climate change because it takes social and economic considerations into account when scoring countries on their oil consumption/energy consumption/climate change goals. Nations such as China and India with large populations tend to promote the use of population based metrics, while nations with large economies such as the United States would tend to promote the GDP based metric.



1. Selected Nations
Oil Efficiency (US dollar/barrel/day)
Switzerland
3.75
United Kingdom
3.34
Norway
3.31
Austria
2.96
France
2.65
Germany
2.89
Sweden
2.71
Italy
2.57
European Union
2.52
DRC
2.4
Japan
2.34
Australia
2.21
Spain
1.96
Bangladesh
1.93
Poland
1.87
United States
1.65
Belgium
1.59
World
1.47
Turkey
1.39
Canada
1.35
Mexico
1.07
Ethiopia
1.04
South Korea
1.00
Philippines
1.00
Brazil
0.99
Taiwan
0.98
China
0.94
Nigeria
0.94
Pakistan
0.93
Myanmar
0.89
India
0.86
Russia
0.84
Indonesia
0.71
Vietnam
0.61
Thailand
0.53
Saudi Arabia
0.46
Egypt
0.41
Singapore
0.40
Iran
0.35

2. Selected Nations
Oil Efficiency (barrel/person/year)
DRC
0.13
Ethiopia
0.37
Bangladesh
0.57
Myanmar
0.73
Pakistan
1.95
Nigeria
2.17
India
2.18
Vietnam
2.70
Philippines
3.77
Indonesia
4.63
China
4.96
Egypt
7.48
Turkey
9.85
Brazil
11.67
Poland
11.67
World
12.55
Thailand
13.86
Russia
17.66
Mexico
18.07
Iran
21.56
European Union
29.70
United Kingdom
30.18
Germany
32.31
France
32.43
Italy
32.43
Austria
34.01
Spain
35.18
Switzerland
34.64
Sweden
34.68
Taiwan
41.68
Japan
42.01
Australia
42.22
South Korea
43.84
Norway
52.06
Belgium
61.52
United States
68.81
Canada
69.85
Saudi Arabia
75.08
Singapore
178.45

(Note: The figure for Singapore is skewed because of its smallpopulation compared with its large oil refining capacity.Most of this oil is sent to other countries.)