KARACHI, Aug 5: Pakistan ranked 38th in world oil consumption with 324,000 barrels per day while the United States held the number one position with a consumption of 20,730,000 bbl/day.

According to CIA World Factbook as of June 14, 2007, China, which came second after the US, consumes 6,534,000 bbl/day, while Japan’s consumption stood at 5,578,000 bbl/day.

One of the interesting facts is that that the US and Canada consume 28 per cent of world oil production, while their combined population is only five per cent of the world. Canada’s oil consumption is 2,294,000 bbl/day.

China consumes one third the oil consumption of America, but its population is more than four times that country.

India consumes one-ninth the oil of US, but its population is nearly 3.5 times of the super power.

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