Countries by natural gas production

The United States had the highest natural gas production of 214 countries in 2016, at 26,592.1 billion cubic feet. Zimbabwe had the lowest, at 0 billion cubic feet. The median was 0 billion cubic feet and the figure for the World was 127,447.8 billion cubic feet. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest26,592.1United States

Lowest0Zimbabwe

Median0214 countries

World127,447.8History

Map of countries, 2016

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billion cubic feet, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: dry natural gas production, billion cubic feet (INTL.26-1-<country>-BCF.A). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2016

billion cubic feet. Source: EIA, International Energy Statistics: dry natural gas production, billion cubic feet (INTL.26-1-<country>-BCF.A). Retrieved 2026-10-18.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2016 billion cubic feet	Change on 2015
1	United States	26,592.1	-1.7%
2	Russia	21,750	+1%
3	Iran	7,082.8	+8.5%
4	Canada	6,120.4	-0.7%
5	Qatar	5,868.9	+1.3%
6	China	5,007.4	+7.2%
7	Norway	4,307.9	-0.5%
8	Saudi Arabia	3,739.1	+3.5%
9	Algeria	3,312	+12.9%
10	Australia	3,269.1	+28.4%
11	Turkmenistan	2,692.1	-4.9%
12	Indonesia	2,533.3	-1.5%
13	Malaysia	2,214.4	-1.1%
14	United Arab Emirates	2,157.2	+1.5%
15	Netherlands	1,840.2	-3.5%
16	Uzbekistan	1,823.3	-7.3%
17	Egypt	1,496.8	-4.4%
18	Nigeria	1,474.8	-7.5%
19	United Kingdom	1,470.4	+2.9%
20	Argentina	1,386.7	+7.9%
21	Thailand	1,383.7	-1.6%
22	Pakistan	1,340	-0.7%
23	Mexico	1,295.9	-9.1%
24	Trinidad and Tobago	1,136.6	-13%
25	India	1,091.9	-1%
26	Oman	1,076.4	+1.8%
27	Bangladesh	975	+9.3%
28	Venezuela	971.9	+5.8%
29	Brazil	825.7	+1.3%
30	Kazakhstan	750.9	+0.3%
31	Bolivia	697.9	-4.7%
32	Ukraine	696.1	+3.7%
33	Myanmar	669.6	+8.3%
34	Libya	629	+16.2%
35	Azerbaijan	617.4	-2.9%
36	Kuwait	610.6	+2.3%
37	Bahrain	541.4	-1.1%
38	Peru	495.6	+11.2%
39	Brunei	409.7	-3.3%
40	Papua New Guinea	388.3	+12.2%
41	Colombia	382.6	-9%
42	Vietnam	356	-0.5%
43	Israel	336.2	+12%
44	Romania	336.2	-11.9%
45	Iraq	336	+37.6%
46	Germany	319	+3.5%
47	Equatorial Guinea	278.1	+5.8%
48	Timor-Leste	222.8	-18.1%
49	Poland	206.5	-4.6%
50	Mozambique	204.5	+1.7%
51	Italy	204.3	-14.6%
52	New Zealand	178.9	+2.3%
53	Denmark	159.6	-2.2%
54	Philippines	134.5	+14.7%
55	Syria	132.4	-12.8%
56	Ireland	108.4	+2,225%
57	Japan	102.8	+3%
58	Côte d’Ivoire	81.6	+12%
59	Hungary	65	+3.9%
60	Angola	60.5	+121.6%
61	Tunisia	48.3	-13.1%
62	Croatia	42.8	-10.2%
63	Chile	42.6	+19.7%
64	Cuba	42	-4.4%
65	Austria	41.9	-6.1%
66	South Africa	34.3	-11.7%
67	Tanzania	31.8	+34.5%
68	Republic of the Congo	30.6	-6.7%
69	Ghana	22.5	-11%
70	Cameroon	19.6	+6.7%
71	Gabon	19.5	+0.2%
72	Serbia	19.4	-8.3%
73	Ecuador	19.3	+10.1%
74	Yemen	17.2	-81.9%
75	Türkiye	13	-3.7%
76	Taiwan	10.2	-14%
77	Czechia	7.7	-11.7%
78	Afghanistan	5.8	+13.1%
79	South Korea	5.4	-18.1%
80	Jordan	4.5	-15.2%
81	Slovakia	3.3	-1.1%
82	Bulgaria	3.3	-10.9%
83	Morocco	3	-8.5%
84	Senegal	2.1	-3.2%
85	Spain	1.9	-12.9%
86	Albania	1.6	+28.6%
87	Rwanda	1	+383.3%
88	Kyrgyzstan	1	-9.4%
89	Belarus	0.8	-26.7%
90	France	0.7	-4.8%
91	Tajikistan	0.7	-5%
92	Barbados	0.6	-13.8%
93	Greece	0.3	+125%
94	Georgia	0.2	-36.4%
95	Slovenia	0.2	+66.7%
96	Suriname	0.2	+25%
97	Moldova	0	+33.3%
98	American Samoa	0	n/a
98	Antarctica	0	n/a
98	Antigua and Barbuda	0	n/a
98	Armenia	0	n/a
98	Aruba	0	n/a
98	Bahamas	0	n/a
98	Belgium	0	n/a
98	Belize	0	n/a
98	Benin	0	n/a
98	Bermuda	0	n/a
98	Bhutan	0	n/a
98	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	n/a
98	Botswana	0	n/a
98	British Virgin Islands	0	n/a
98	Burkina Faso	0	n/a
98	Burundi	0	n/a
98	Cambodia	0	n/a
98	Cape Verde	0	n/a
98	Cayman Islands	0	n/a
98	Central African Republic	0	n/a
98	Chad	0	n/a
98	Comoros	0	n/a
98	Cook Islands	0	n/a
98	Costa Rica	0	n/a
98	Cyprus	0	n/a
98	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0	-100%
98	Djibouti	0	n/a
98	Dominica	0	n/a
98	Dominican Republic	0	n/a
98	El Salvador	0	n/a
98	Eritrea	0	n/a
98	Estonia	0	n/a
98	Eswatini	0	n/a
98	Ethiopia	0	n/a
98	Falkland Islands	0	n/a
98	Faroe Islands	0	n/a
98	Fiji	0	n/a
98	Finland	0	n/a
98	French Polynesia	0	n/a
98	Gambia	0	n/a
98	Gibraltar	0	n/a
98	Greenland	0	n/a
98	Grenada	0	n/a
98	Guam	0	n/a
98	Guatemala	0	n/a
98	Guinea	0	n/a
98	Guinea-Bissau	0	n/a
98	Guyana	0	n/a
98	Haiti	0	n/a
98	Honduras	0	n/a
98	Hong Kong	0	n/a
98	Iceland	0	n/a
98	Jamaica	0	n/a
98	Kenya	0	n/a
98	Kiribati	0	n/a
98	Laos	0	n/a
98	Latvia	0	n/a
98	Lebanon	0	n/a
98	Lesotho	0	n/a
98	Liberia	0	n/a
98	Lithuania	0	n/a
98	Luxembourg	0	n/a
98	Macao	0	n/a
98	Madagascar	0	n/a
98	Malawi	0	n/a
98	Maldives	0	n/a
98	Mali	0	n/a
98	Malta	0	n/a
98	Mauritania	0	n/a
98	Mauritius	0	n/a
98	Micronesia	0	n/a
98	Mongolia	0	n/a
98	Montenegro	0	n/a
98	Montserrat	0	n/a
98	Namibia	0	n/a
98	Nauru	0	n/a
98	Nepal	0	n/a
98	New Caledonia	0	n/a
98	Nicaragua	0	n/a
98	Niger	0	n/a
98	Niue	0	n/a
98	North Korea	0	n/a
98	North Macedonia	0	n/a
98	Northern Mariana Islands	0	n/a
98	Palestine	0	n/a
98	Panama	0	n/a
98	Paraguay	0	n/a
98	Portugal	0	n/a
98	Puerto Rico	0	n/a
98	Saint Helena	0	n/a
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	n/a
98	Saint Lucia	0	n/a
98	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	n/a
98	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	n/a
98	Samoa	0	n/a
98	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	n/a
98	Seychelles	0	n/a
98	Sierra Leone	0	n/a
98	Singapore	0	n/a
98	Solomon Islands	0	n/a
98	Somalia	0	n/a
98	South Sudan	0	n/a
98	Sri Lanka	0	n/a
98	Sudan	0	n/a
98	Sweden	0	n/a
98	Switzerland	0	n/a
98	Togo	0	n/a
98	Tonga	0	n/a
98	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	n/a
98	Tuvalu	0	n/a
98	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	n/a
98	Uganda	0	n/a
98	Uruguay	0	n/a
98	Vanuatu	0	n/a
98	Western Sahara	0	n/a
98	Zambia	0	n/a
98	Zimbabwe	0	n/a

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Dry natural gas produced in the year, after the liquids are removed at processing plants, in billion cubic feet, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration International Energy Statistics.

One billion cubic feet is about 28.3 million cubic metres. US states are served as marketed production (natural_gas_marketed_production), which is larger because it still contains the liquids. EIA International Energy Statistics, compiled by EIA from national statistics and other reports. Countries that no longer exist (the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany) have no current ISO code and are not served; their successors start when EIA starts them.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 4 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2016 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: dry natural gas production, billion cubic feet (INTL.26-1-<country>-BCF.A). https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/natural-gas/dry-natural-gas-production. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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The United States, with 26,592.1 billion cubic feet in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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