Oil Made, Oil Used: US, Mexico and Norway, 1984–2025
Topic: Energy & Resources
In this chart: Oil made and used by country
About this chart
Each balance weighs what one country makes against what it uses: the gold vessel on the left holds what it makes and the blue vessel on the right what it uses, and the beam tips toward the heavier side, level with the violet parity line when the two are equal. Each balance's vessels share one scale, printed beneath it, so the vessels are compared within a balance, not across balances. Under each balance are what it makes as a share of what it uses, its name, the two amounts and which side it is on. The year runs at the top right. The animation runs the record over twenty seconds, holds on the last year, and loops. The scrubber under the chart marks every year and labels the decades, and pauses on any year.
Method
Each balance is one country's oil: what it produces — crude oil, including lease condensate, and natural gas plant liquids — against what it consumes, in million barrels a day, each year from 1984 to 2025, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's international energy statistics. The record starts in 1984, the first year the Administration gives both figures for every country here. The headline is production as a share of consumption; over 100% means the country produced more oil than it consumed that year. The beam's tilt shows the gap between the two against their total; it has no scale of its own. Production here leaves out refinery processing gain and biofuels, which the Administration's wider measure counts; by that measure the United States produced more than it consumed in 2020 and again from 2022. Each country's vessels are drawn to that country's own scale, fixed across the years and printed under its balance. Every figure on the page is computed from the rows the page serves.
Data sources
Data table
The oil produced and consumed by the United States, Mexico and Norway in every year from 1984, in thousand barrels a day, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's international energy statistics: made is crude oil, including lease condensate, plus natural gas plant liquids; used is the consumption of petroleum and other liquids. A figure the Administration has not yet published is held at the year before and marked. These are the rows the chart draws.
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| Year | US made | US used | Mexico made | Mexico used | Norway made | Norway used | Held |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 10,505.0 | 15,725.2 | 2,940.4 | 1,394.9 | 753.4 | 188.3 | |
| 1985 | 10,566.6 | 15,725.9 | 3,026.9 | 1,476.2 | 824.7 | 196.9 | |
| 1986 | 10,226.4 | 16,280.1 | 2,773.8 | 1,523.5 | 913.0 | 201.2 | |
| 1987 | 9,940.0 | 16,664.5 | 2,885.7 | 1,576.4 | 1,062.0 | 204.0 | |
| 1988 | 9,760.8 | 17,282.7 | 2,881.8 | 1,598.1 | 1,207.0 | 196.1 | |
| 1989 | 9,158.5 | 17,324.6 | 2,904.2 | 1,715.0 | 1,575.7 | 189.7 | |
| 1990 | 8,914.1 | 16,988.0 | 2,982.4 | 1,591.3 | 1,726.3 | 199.4 | |
| 1991 | 9,076.0 | 16,713.3 | 3,136.7 | 1,712.9 | 1,964.7 | 189.5 | |
| 1992 | 8,868.4 | 17,032.5 | 3,119.3 | 1,712.6 | 2,224.2 | 188.5 | |
| 1993 | 8,582.2 | 17,236.7 | 3,135.3 | 1,811.3 | 2,376.5 | 194.8 | |
| 1994 | 8,388.2 | 17,718.1 | 3,081.6 | 1,978.5 | 2,684.9 | 200.1 | |
| 1995 | 8,321.9 | 17,724.6 | 3,025.7 | 1,827.3 | 2,893.2 | 208.2 | |
| 1996 | 8,294.6 | 18,309.1 | 3,278.8 | 1,824.2 | 3,222.5 | 219.0 | |
| 1997 | 8,268.7 | 18,620.3 | 3,454.7 | 1,863.1 | 3,263.2 | 220.3 | |
| 1998 | 8,011.1 | 18,917.2 | 3,515.0 | 1,983.7 | 3,122.2 | 221.4 | |
| 1999 | 7,731.0 | 19,519.3 | 3,362.6 | 1,976.4 | 3,122.4 | 221.6 | |
| 2000 | 7,732.7 | 19,701.0 | 3,449.9 | 2,062.4 | 3,330.8 | 209.2 | |
| 2001 | 7,669.8 | 19,648.7 | 3,559.8 | 2,036.8 | 3,402.9 | 222.2 | |
| 2002 | 7,624.2 | 19,761.3 | 3,584.9 | 1,952.8 | 3,321.9 | 220.1 | |
| 2003 | 7,368.4 | 20,033.6 | 3,787.3 | 1,951.8 | 3,252.5 | 230.1 | |
| 2004 | 7,250.0 | 20,731.1 | 3,822.4 | 2,020.3 | 3,180.2 | 217.5 | |
| 2005 | 6,900.7 | 20,802.2 | 3,756.8 | 2,068.6 | 2,962.1 | 221.7 | |
| 2006 | 6,824.6 | 20,687.4 | 3,681.5 | 2,075.8 | 2,772.6 | 227.2 | |
| 2007 | 6,856.9 | 20,680.4 | 3,469.0 | 2,135.5 | 2,550.9 | 238.4 | |
| 2008 | 6,783.3 | 19,498.0 | 3,156.8 | 2,125.8 | 2,456.7 | 223.4 | |
| 2009 | 7,266.6 | 18,771.4 | 2,971.5 | 2,058.3 | 2,343.4 | 222.9 | |
| 2010 | 7,558.4 | 19,177.5 | 2,953.1 | 2,094.3 | 2,137.8 | 229.4 | |
| 2011 | 7,883.3 | 18,895.5 | 2,934.2 | 2,120.3 | 2,040.8 | 224.7 | |
| 2012 | 8,928.5 | 18,482.4 | 2,910.1 | 2,102.1 | 1,917.5 | 224.9 | |
| 2013 | 10,099.8 | 18,966.5 | 2,881.9 | 2,090.4 | 1,838.1 | 229.3 | |
| 2014 | 11,803.9 | 19,100.5 | 2,788.3 | 2,039.7 | 1,888.7 | 225.8 | |
| 2015 | 12,788.8 | 19,531.6 | 2,591.0 | 2,006.3 | 1,948.0 | 226.3 | |
| 2016 | 12,360.7 | 19,691.9 | 2,458.1 | 2,052.6 | 1,994.2 | 223.3 | |
| 2017 | 13,154.1 | 19,951.9 | 2,228.7 | 2,018.8 | 1,969.0 | 230.0 | |
| 2018 | 15,333.4 | 20,511.6 | 2,058.7 | 1,933.5 | 1,852.1 | 235.4 | |
| 2019 | 17,072.5 | 20,542.9 | 1,900.3 | 1,954.8 | 1,736.6 | 228.6 | |
| 2020 | 16,482.1 | 18,185.9 | 1,929.1 | 1,670.4 | 2,001.2 | 211.3 | |
| 2021 | 16,736.2 | 19,889.9 | 1,950.4 | 1,703.6 | 2,024.5 | 215.9 | |
| 2022 | 17,937.3 | 20,010.2 | 2,011.6 | 1,865.6 | 1,900.6 | 217.9 | |
| 2023 | 19,442.0 | 20,275.0 | 2,100.5 | 1,845.8 | 2,018.3 | 229.3 | |
| 2024 | 20,275.7 | 20,463.7 | 1,991.3 | 1,915.9 | 2,000.5 | 215.2 | |
| 2025 | 21,065.2 | 20,736.1 | 1,850.0 | 1,905.7 | 2,045.5 | 219.8 |
Updated 2025
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