Oil consumption is increasing globally due to industrialization and modern machines. The US is the largest consumer, followed by China, Japan, India, and Russia. The European Union is not included in the ranking.
Oil is perhaps the world’s most critical energy source. Overall consumption is on the rise as more and more people around the world industrialize and start using modern machines. The United States is the largest consumer of oil; the European Union follows, with 13,630,000 barrels consumed per day, but it is not included in this ranking because it is not a single country.
Here are the top 25 oil consuming nations provided by the CIA World Factbook (2009/2010 estimates); the values represent the number of barrels consumed per day.
nation
barrels/day
United States
18,690,000
Chinese
8,200,000
Japan
4,363,000
India
2,980,000
Russia
2,740,000
Brazil
2,460,000
Germania
2,437,000
Saudi Arabia
2,430,000
South Korea
2,185,000
Canada
2,151,000
Mexico
2,078,000
France
1,875,000
Iran
1,809,000
United Kingdom
1,669,000
Italia
1,537,000
Spain
1,482,000
Indonesia
1,115,000
Australia
946,300
Singapore
927,000
When
922,800
Taiwan
834,000
Venezuela
740,000
Iraq
687,000
Egypt
683,000
Argentina
622,000
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