Energy Information Administration World Dry Natural Gas Consumption, 1990-1999
(Billion Cubic Feet)
Region/Country	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
North America
Canada	2,378	2,400	2,596	2,736	2,824	2,791	3,000	2,981	2,868	3,095
Mexico	918	949	959	977	1,026	1,043	1,103	1,178	1,284	1,262
United States	18,716	19,035	19,544	20,279	20,708	21,581	21,966	21,959	21,262	21,703
Total	22,012	22,384	23,099	23,992	24,559	25,414	26,068	26,118	25,414	26,061
Central & South America
Argentina	717	781	787	833	856	953	1,010	1,008	1,077	1,191
Barbados	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Bolivia	30	26	32	30	35	43	37	47	31	31
Brazil	97	119	130	146	152	159	178	195	205	234
Chile	66	52	54	62	69	67	64	99	114	141
Colombia	151	155	151	157	162	161	167	211	221	183
Cuba	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	26	14	18
Ecuador	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Peru	19	18	18	34	35	33	34	8	14	15
Trinidad and Tobago	177	201	194	218	250	268	303	328	328	339
Venezuela	761	793	763	815	876	890	961	994	1,110	1,091
Total	2,024	2,151	2,136	2,301	2,440	2,581	2,761	2,922	3,120	3,247
Western Europe
Austria	215	228	224	235	242	262	281	271	279	285
Belgium	341	363	374	392	401	443	493	470	518	552
Denmark	73	82	87	98	108	127	148	168	172	180
Finland	95	100	104	108	119	123	129	127	145	145
France	997	1,131	1,146	1,158	1,157	1,183	1,314	1,300	1,313	1,346
Germany	0	2,776	2,739	2,830	2,965	3,172	3,163	3,012	3,029	3,035
Germany, East	357	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germany, West	2,312	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	4	4	4	3	1	1	1	7	30	53
Ireland	82	84	83	94	96	102	114	118	118	125
Italy	1,674	1,775	1,760	1,801	1,748	1,921	1,984	2,048	2,205	2,396
Luxembourg	17	18	19	20	20	22	25	25	25	26
Netherlands	1,535	1,715	1,669	1,714	1,654	1,701	1,874	1,763	1,752	1,704
Norway	80	78	131	90	93	101	102	128	127	155
Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	28	80
Spain	192	216	228	224	239	299	334	437	449	514
Sweden	23	24	27	30	30	30	31	31	30	32
Switzerland	70	79	83	87	86	95	102	99	102	106
Turkey	122	150	164	182	192	248	290	346	366	444
United Kingdom	2,059	2,218	2,170	2,412	2,542	2,690	3,182	3,013	3,072	3,259
Former Yugoslavia	248	247	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	18	14	15	87	5	5	7	7
Croatia	0	0	96	104	91	82	88	99	94	94
Macedonia, TFYR	0	0	9	10	0	0	0	0	1	1
Serbia and Montenegro	0	0	72	34	58	39	98	97	104	61
Slovenia	0	0	24	30	29	35	45	32	34	36
Total	10,496	11,288	11,231	11,671	11,886	12,761	13,805	13,600	13,999	14,635
Eastern Europe & Former U.S.S.R.
Albania	9	5	4	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Bulgaria	241	200	186	172	168	208	219	182	135	119
Former Czechoslovakia	532	504	411	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Czech Republic	0	0	0	259	238	285	328	333	333	337
Slovakia	0	0	0	175	205	273	265	256	251	249
Hungary	394	393	349	372	375	407	453	431	433	437
Poland	427	399	373	393	393	416	463	463	475	442
Romania	1,261	1,040	936	908	851	901	894	830	650	622
Former U.S.S.R.	24,961	25,014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	0	0	66	49	57	57	64	46	49	46
Azerbaijan	0	0	523	388	332	318	328	323	197	212
Belarus	0	0	646	600	498	452	494	533	545	608
Estonia	0	0	53	21	23	26	29	37	36	35
Georgia	0	0	177	85	57	74	64	67	66	41
Kazakhstan	0	0	710	523	530	383	510	494	473	480
Kyrgyzstan	0	0	85	79	64	31	64	68	68	67
Latvia	0	0	57	28	25	39	35	46	46	46
Lithuania	0	0	141	85	81	99	92	102	113	76
Moldova	0	0	78	64	49	49	71	85	82	74
Russia	0	0	16,482	16,185	15,214	14,507	14,504	13,434	14,045	14,013
Tajikistan	0	0	67	49	57	29	43	40	40	41
Turkmenistan	0	0	141	145	148	170	170	162	155	198
Ukraine	0	0	3,503	3,871	3,327	2,970	2,935	2,832	2,606	2,755
Uzbekistan	0	0	1,095	1,541	1,229	1,349	1,434	1,455	1,409	1,423
Total	27,825	27,555	26,080	25,994	23,920	23,043	23,458	22,221	22,208	22,321
Middle East
Bahrain	205	233	188	234	229	229	232	281	293	297
Iran	837	811	883	938	1,123	1,243	1,416	1,663	1,828	1,941
Iraq	77	39	101	90	112	112	114	108	104	112
Israel	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0
Jordan	5	5	5	7	10	10	10	10	10	10
Kuwait	256	18	93	191	211	211	328	327	318	286
Oman	99	124	117	140	147	130	128	159	232	182
Qatar	276	328	401	477	477	477	484	513	522	562
Saudi Arabia	1,077	1,130	1,201	1,268	1,331	1,343	1,460	1,601	1,653	1,632
Syria	103	124	127	131	134	104	142	161	203	213
United Arab Emirates	663	790	902	798	765	875	959	1,024	1,073	1,110
Total	3,599	3,603	4,018	4,274	4,540	4,735	5,274	5,849	6,237	6,343
Africa
Algeria	681	775	730	655	690	742	762	712	736	784
Angola	19	20	20	20	18	20	20	20	20	20
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	0	0	0	0	0	1	19	21	28	47
Egypt	286	321	349	399	423	439	473	477	485	548
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Gabon	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Libya	175	175	174	168	173	171	184	192	192	183
Morocco	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Nigeria	131	168	173	178	161	183	193	207	208	219
Senegal	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	1	1	1
South Africa	0	0	1	64	69	69	65	62	51	49
Tunisia	54	41	31	53	69	58	67	91	104	106
Total	1,351	1,505	1,483	1,542	1,610	1,689	1,790	1,788	1,836	1,967
Far East & Oceania
Afghanistan	67	11	11	11	11	7	8	8	8	8
Australia	625	584	604	630	661	710	719	718	753	763
Bangladesh	162	173	206	216	235	260	269	269	290	320
Brunei	46	15	35	29	25	34	28	31	27	37
Burma	38	36	36	39	51	58	57	53	62	61
China	508	526	533	558	589	601	663	749	784	854
Hong Kong	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	22	23
India	399	449	477	532	594	628	696	717	761	752
Indonesia	547	557	673	850	965	1,061	1,108	1,125