Oil is perhaps the most critical source of energy worldwide. Overall consumption is on the rise as more and more of the world industrialize and start utilizing modern machines. The United States is the largest consumer of oil; the European Union is next, with 13,630,000 barrels per day consumed, but it is not included on this chart because it is not a single country.
Here are the top 25 oil consuming nations as provided by the CIA World Factbook (2009/2010 estimates); the values represent the number of barrels consumed per day.
| country | barrels/day | |
| United States | 18,690,000 |  |
| China | 8,200,000 | |
| Japan | 4,363,000 | |
| India | 2,980,000 | |
| Russia | 2,740,000 | |
| Brazil | 2,460,000 | |
| Germany | 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 | |
| Italy | 1,537,000 | |
| Spain | 1,482,000 | |
| Indonesia | 1,115,000 | |
| Australia | 946,300 | |
| Singapore | 927,000 | |
| Netherlands | 922,800 | |
| Taiwan | 834,000 | |
| Venezuela | 740,000 | |
| Iraq | 687,000 | |
| Egypt | 683,000 | |
| Argentina | 622,000 | |
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