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🛢️ Largest Proven Oil Reserves

Proven crude oil reserves in billions of barrels.

📅 2026📏 billion barrels101 entries
Each tile’s area is its share of the combined total of 1,745.1B (100 entries). Stronger colour means a higher rank. The smallest 60 are merged into one grey tile.
1
🇻🇪Venezuela
304.0B
2
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
267.0B
3
🇮🇷Iran
209.0B
4
🇨🇦Canada
170.0B
5
🇮🇶Iraq
145.0B
6
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
113.0B
7
🇰🇼Kuwait
102.0B
8
🇺🇸United States
74.0B
9
🇷🇺Russia
58.0B
10
🇱🇾Libya
50.0B
11
🇳🇬Nigeria
37.0B
12
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
30.0B
13
🇨🇳China
26.0B
14
🇶🇦Qatar
25.0B
15
🇧🇷Brazil
13.0B
16
🇩🇿Algeria
12.0B
17
🇬🇾Guyana
11.0B
18
🇪🇨Ecuador
8.3B
19
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
7.0B
20
🇳🇴Norway
7.0B
21
🇲🇽Mexico
6.0B
22
🇴🇲Oman
5.4B
23
🇮🇳India
4.8B
24
🇻🇳Vietnam
4.4B
25
🇸🇸South Sudan
3.8B
26
🇲🇾Malaysia
3.6B
27
🇪🇬Egypt
3.3B
28
🇦🇷Argentina
3.0B
29
🇾🇪Yemen
3.0B
30
🇦🇴Angola
2.6B
31
🇮🇩Indonesia
2.5B
32
🇸🇾Syria
2.5B
33
🇺🇬Uganda
2.5B
34
🇬🇧United Kingdom
2.5B
35
🇦🇺Australia
2.4B
36
🇸🇷Suriname
2.4B
37
🇬🇦Gabon
2.0B
38
🇨🇴Colombia
1.8B
39
🇨🇬Congo
1.8B
40
🇹🇩Chad
1.5B
41
🇹🇷Türkiye
1.4B
42
🇸🇩Sudan
1.3B
43
🇧🇳Brunei
1.1B
44
🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
1.1B
45
🇵🇪Peru
0.9B
46
🇬🇭Ghana
0.7B
47
🇰🇪Kenya
0.6B
48
🇷🇴Romania
0.6B
49
🇹🇲Turkmenistan
0.6B
50
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
0.6B

Highlights

As of 2026, Venezuela ranks first with 304.0B, followed by Saudi Arabia (267.0B) and Iran (209.0B).

Across 101 countries and territories, values run from 304.0B (Venezuela) to 0.0B (Mozambique), with a median of 0.5B.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 5 from Asia, 3 from the Americas, 1 from Africa and 1 from Europe.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, proven crude oil reserves (via Wikipedia), 2026. Unit: billion barrels.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, proven crude oil reserves (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026