Ranked: The Top Crude Oil Producers in 2025

Ranked: The Top Crude Oil Producers in 2025

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The U.S. produced more crude oil than any other country in 2025, by a wide margin.

But while America leads the ranking, the Middle East remains the world’s biggest production hub, with five countries in the global top 10.

This graphic shows crude oil production by country, using 2025 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The ranking highlights how oil production is spread across multiple continents, while still concentrated among a small group of leading producers.

America Leads Global Crude Oil Production

The U.S. was the world’s top crude oil producer in 2025, with more than 13.58 million barrels per day (mb/d), representing a 16% share of global production.

The country surpassed Russia in 2018 and in 2023 became the largest producer of crude oil of any country in history.

Here’s how the world’s top producers stack up, based on annualized data from Jan-Nov 2025:

Rank	Country	Annualized Average Crude Oil production (million barrels per day)
1	United States	13.577
2	Russia	9.867
3	Saudi Arabia	9.509
4	Canada	4.938
5	Iraq	4.394
6	China	4.337
7	Iran	4.192
8	United Arab Emirates	3.817
9	Brazil	3.745
10	Kuwait	2.575
11	Kazakhstan	2.065
12	Norway	1.846
13	Mexico	1.724
14	Nigeria	1.609
15	Libya	1.357
16	Qatar	1.311
17	Algeria	1.140
18	Angola	1.033
19	Oman	1.000
20	Venezuela	0.974
21	Argentina	0.788
22	Colombia	0.746
23	Guyana	0.733
24	United Kingdom	0.612
25	India	0.602
26	Indonesia	0.582
27	Azerbaijan	0.562
28	Malaysia	0.515
29	Egypt	0.509
30	Ecuador	0.439
31	Australia	0.245
32	Congo-Brazzaville	0.240
33	Gabon	0.238
34	Turkmenistan	0.191
35	Ghana	0.183
36	Bahrain	0.183
37	Vietnam	0.164
38	Thailand	0.160
39	Chad	0.127
40	Turkiye	0.125
41	South Sudan	0.112
42	Niger	0.101
43	Brunei	0.100
44	Senegal	0.100
45	Italy	0.084
46	Equatorial Guinea	0.078
47	Syria	0.073
48	Denmark	0.072
49	Cameroon	0.059
50	Pakistan	0.058
51	Cote d’Ivoire	0.054
52	Romania	0.052
53	Trinidad and Tobago	0.051
54	Peru	0.045
55	Germany	0.032
56	Papua New Guinea	0.032
57	Sudan	0.030
58	Uzbekistan	0.030
59	Belarus	0.026
60	Cuba	0.026
61	Tunisia	0.026
62	Hungary	0.023
63	Netherlands	0.021
64	Israel	0.020
65	Bolivia	0.018
66	Poland	0.016
67	Congo-Kinshasa	0.016
68	Yemen	0.015
69	Mongolia	0.014
70	Albania	0.012
71	Suriname	0.012
72	Serbia	0.012
73	France	0.010
74	Croatia	0.009
75	Austria	0.009
76	New Zealand	0.007
77	Burma	0.006
78	Kyrgyzstan	0.006
79	Guatemala	0.005
80	Japan	0.003
81	Bangladesh	0.003
82	Timor-Leste	0.002
83	Chile	0.002
84	Greece	0.001
85	Czechia	0.001
86	Bulgaria	0.001
87	Barbados	0.001
88	Belize	0.001
89	Lithuania	0.001
90	Philippines	0.001

Roughly a quarter of U.S. production comes from the Permian Basin, a sedimentary region spanning western Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

Beyond the Permian and other Texas deposits, the U.S. also has major oil reserves in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. In Alaska, oil revenues have supported the Alaska Permanent Fund since the 1970s, a state-owned sovereign wealth fund that pays dividends to residents.

The Middle East Remains the World’s Biggest Oil Hub

Five Middle Eastern countries ranked among the world’s top 10 crude oil producers in 2025: Saudi Arabia (9.51 mb/d), Iraq (4.39), Iran (4.19), the United Arab Emirates (3.82), and Kuwait (2.58).

All five sit along the Persian Gulf, giving the region an outsized role in global energy markets. That also means conflict or disruption around the Strait of Hormuz can have major consequences for global oil supply.

Since the 1960s, each of these countries has also been a core member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which coordinates among major oil producers on output and pricing strategy.

Other Major Oil Producers Outside OPEC

The U.S. is not a member of OPEC. Nor are Canada (4.94 mb/d) and China (4.34), both of which produced more than 4 million barrels per day in 2025 and ranked among the global top 10.

Meanwhile, two other major producers, Russia (9.87) and Brazil (3.74), are part of OPEC+, a looser coalition that works with OPEC members to manage production when interests align.

In recent years, tensions have occasionally emerged between OPEC’s core producers, led by Saudi Arabia, and OPEC+ partners such as Russia over how much oil to pump while trying to support prices.

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