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HOW MUCH OIL IS LEFT?

How Much Oil is Left?

At the start of 2016, this is how much oil USA had left.

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5.30km3
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At the start of 2016, this is how much oil UK had left.

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0.43km3
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The top 10 countries by oil reserves compared with the US and UK

Estimated oil reserves as at 1st Jan 2016.
The number of years left is based on the current level of oil production in each country.

VENEZUELA

47.3km3
Barrel

326Years left

SAUDI ARABIA

42.1km3
Barrel

74Years & 6 months left

CANADA

27.0km3
Barrel

119Years & 5 months left

IRAN

24.9km3
Barrel

118Years & 8 months left

IRAQ

22.7km3
Barrel

116Years & 4 months left

KUWAIT

16.4km3
Barrel

107Years & 10 months left

RUSSIA

15.8km3
Barrel

25Years & 1 months left

UAE

15.4km3
Barrel

94Years left

LIBYA

7.7km3
Barrel

280Years & 11 months left

NIGERIA

5.8km3
Barrel

40Years & 11 months left

USA

5.3km3
Barrel

10Years & 7 months left

UK

0.4km3
Barrel

9Years & 5 months left

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Sources: CIA Factbook: Crude Oil Reserves and Oil Production
Calculations viewable here

Reserves, according to the CIA factbook, are the volume 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.”