Countries by natural gas production

The United States had the highest natural gas production of 214 countries in 2020, at 33,811.1 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 139,906.8 billion cubic feet. Source: the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Highest33,811.1United States

Lowest0Zimbabwe

Median0214 countries

World139,906.8History

Map of countries, 2020

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billion cubic feet, 2020. 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, 2020

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	2020 billion cubic feet	Change on 2019
1	United States	33,811.1	-0.3%
2	Russia	23,598.7	-5.7%
3	Iran	8,788.3	+6%
4	China	6,922.1	+9.3%
5	Canada	5,959.6	-1.8%
6	Qatar	5,911.2	-0%
7	Australia	5,112.1	-0.2%
8	Norway	4,142.7	-2.6%
9	Saudi Arabia	4,018	+0.9%
10	Algeria	2,991.9	-4.9%
11	Turkmenistan	2,812.5	-4.8%
12	Indonesia	2,457	+3.7%
13	Malaysia	2,301.5	-9.4%
14	Egypt	2,139.5	-7.2%
15	United Arab Emirates	1,971.3	+0.4%
16	Nigeria	1,652.6	+1.1%
17	Uzbekistan	1,622.4	-17.8%
18	Argentina	1,423	-7.8%
19	United Kingdom	1,392	+0.1%
20	Oman	1,260.1	-1.6%
21	Thailand	1,202.5	-11.1%
22	Pakistan	1,146.9	+6.2%
23	Trinidad and Tobago	1,090.8	-13.3%
24	Mexico	1,078.6	+0.9%
25	India	976.8	-11.5%
26	Bangladesh	868.9	-5%
27	Azerbaijan	867.9	+6.5%
28	Netherlands	852.1	-27.2%
29	Brazil	829.6	-5.9%
30	Kazakhstan	752.2	-8.2%
31	Ukraine	688.3	-1.3%
32	Venezuela	675.3	-3.8%
33	Bahrain	636.9	+1.5%
34	Myanmar	595.6	-2.8%
35	Kuwait	583.8	-5.6%
36	Bolivia	536.9	-3.1%
37	Israel	529.4	+45.8%
38	Brunei	443.5	-2.2%
39	Peru	424.9	-10.4%
40	Papua New Guinea	419.2	+3.1%
41	Colombia	399.2	-1.5%
42	Libya	379.2	-27.7%
43	Romania	306.1	-10.3%
44	Vietnam	301.5	-12.2%
45	Angola	263.1	+10.1%
46	Iraq	260.3	-31.2%
47	Timor-Leste	236.9	+21.6%
48	Equatorial Guinea	204.6	-3.4%
49	Poland	200.1	-1.3%
50	Mozambique	188	-1.9%
51	Germany	181.1	-14.5%
52	New Zealand	166.8	-1%
53	Italy	142.7	-15.9%
54	Philippines	135.9	-9.2%
55	Syria	97.4	-21.9%
56	Ghana	91.1	+72.2%
57	Cameroon	84.7	+1.3%
58	Côte d’Ivoire	83	+3.1%
59	Japan	81.1	-9.1%
60	Ireland	73.2	-21.9%
61	Denmark	64	-46.5%
62	Hungary	59.5	-1.2%
63	Chile	48.3	-2.8%
64	Republic of the Congo	44.5	+9.1%
65	Tunisia	42.8	+8%
66	Tanzania	42.3	-13.2%
67	South Africa	41.7	-3.9%
68	Cuba	32	-5.4%
69	Croatia	30	-17.1%
70	Austria	26.9	-17.7%
71	Gabon	17.7	+8.2%
72	Türkiye	15.6	-6.4%
73	Serbia	15.3	-6.1%
74	Ecuador	10.2	-15.4%
75	Czechia	7	-5.7%
76	Jordan	6.6	+52%
77	South Korea	6.5	-28.6%
78	Morocco	3.7	-0.1%
79	Afghanistan	2.8	-37.7%
80	Taiwan	2.7	-41.6%
81	Belarus	2.4	-1.8%
82	Guatemala	2.4	-3.7%
83	Bulgaria	2.3	+68.3%
84	Senegal	2.3	-2%
85	Slovakia	2.2	-9.8%
86	Rwanda	2.1	-2.1%
87	Spain	2	-56.4%
88	Albania	2	-28.2%
89	Niger	1.4	+0.5%
90	Kyrgyzstan	0.8	-7.4%
91	Tajikistan	0.7	+0.6%
92	France	0.6	+9.1%
93	Barbados	0.4	-56.7%
94	Yemen	0.4	+0.9%
95	Suriname	0.2	+8.6%
96	Georgia	0.2	-32.4%
97	Belgium	0.2	+54.6%
98	Greece	0.2	-49%
99	Slovenia	0.2	-51.5%
100	Moldova	0	-84.7%
101	American Samoa	0	n/a
101	Antarctica	0	n/a
101	Antigua and Barbuda	0	n/a
101	Armenia	0	n/a
101	Aruba	0	n/a
101	Bahamas	0	n/a
101	Belize	0	n/a
101	Benin	0	n/a
101	Bermuda	0	n/a
101	Bhutan	0	n/a
101	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	n/a
101	Botswana	0	n/a
101	British Virgin Islands	0	n/a
101	Burkina Faso	0	n/a
101	Burundi	0	n/a
101	Cambodia	0	n/a
101	Cape Verde	0	n/a
101	Cayman Islands	0	n/a
101	Central African Republic	0	n/a
101	Chad	0	n/a
101	Comoros	0	n/a
101	Cook Islands	0	n/a
101	Costa Rica	0	n/a
101	Cyprus	0	n/a
101	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0	n/a
101	Djibouti	0	n/a
101	Dominica	0	n/a
101	Dominican Republic	0	n/a
101	El Salvador	0	n/a
101	Eritrea	0	n/a
101	Estonia	0	n/a
101	Eswatini	0	n/a
101	Ethiopia	0	n/a
101	Falkland Islands	0	n/a
101	Faroe Islands	0	n/a
101	Fiji	0	n/a
101	Finland	0	n/a
101	French Polynesia	0	n/a
101	Gambia	0	n/a
101	Gibraltar	0	n/a
101	Greenland	0	n/a
101	Grenada	0	n/a
101	Guam	0	n/a
101	Guinea	0	n/a
101	Guinea-Bissau	0	n/a
101	Guyana	0	n/a
101	Haiti	0	n/a
101	Honduras	0	n/a
101	Hong Kong	0	n/a
101	Iceland	0	n/a
101	Jamaica	0	n/a
101	Kenya	0	n/a
101	Kiribati	0	n/a
101	Laos	0	n/a
101	Latvia	0	n/a
101	Lebanon	0	n/a
101	Lesotho	0	n/a
101	Liberia	0	n/a
101	Lithuania	0	n/a
101	Luxembourg	0	n/a
101	Macao	0	n/a
101	Madagascar	0	n/a
101	Malawi	0	n/a
101	Maldives	0	n/a
101	Mali	0	n/a
101	Malta	0	n/a
101	Mauritania	0	n/a
101	Mauritius	0	n/a
101	Micronesia	0	n/a
101	Mongolia	0	n/a
101	Montenegro	0	n/a
101	Montserrat	0	n/a
101	Namibia	0	n/a
101	Nauru	0	n/a
101	Nepal	0	n/a
101	New Caledonia	0	n/a
101	Nicaragua	0	n/a
101	Niue	0	n/a
101	North Korea	0	n/a
101	North Macedonia	0	n/a
101	Northern Mariana Islands	0	n/a
101	Palestine	0	n/a
101	Panama	0	n/a
101	Paraguay	0	n/a
101	Portugal	0	n/a
101	Puerto Rico	0	n/a
101	Saint Helena	0	n/a
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	n/a
101	Saint Lucia	0	n/a
101	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	0	n/a
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	n/a
101	Samoa	0	n/a
101	São Tomé and Príncipe	0	n/a
101	Seychelles	0	n/a
101	Sierra Leone	0	n/a
101	Singapore	0	n/a
101	Solomon Islands	0	n/a
101	Somalia	0	n/a
101	South Sudan	0	n/a
101	Sri Lanka	0	n/a
101	Sudan	0	n/a
101	Sweden	0	n/a
101	Switzerland	0	n/a
101	Togo	0	n/a
101	Tonga	0	n/a
101	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	n/a
101	Tuvalu	0	n/a
101	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	n/a
101	Uganda	0	n/a
101	Uruguay	0	n/a
101	Vanuatu	0	n/a
101	Western Sahara	0	n/a
101	Zambia	0	n/a
101	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 2020 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 33,811.1 billion cubic feet in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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