* Saudi Arabia and Kuwait's reserves include the Saudi-Kuwaiti 'neutral zone', which has total proved reserve amounting to five billion barrels of oil.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, NRCan - Energy Fact Book 2020-2021, page 49, 2019. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
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Proved oil reserves share worldwide by country 2019
This statistic shows the distribution of proved oil reserves worldwide at the end of 2019, by country. At the end of 2019 the global proved reserves of oil amounted to some billion barrels. At that time, the proved oil reserves of Saudi Arabia accounted for ** percent of global oil reserves.
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