# Top Oil Producers are also Top Oil Consumers

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Here’s an interesting bit of information I recently ran across:  
Many of the world’s biggest producers of fossil fuels are also among the top per-capita consumers of fossil fuels.

Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Singapore, Qatar, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait all consume 10 or more tons of fossil fuels per person. Equatorial Guinea burns 18 ton p/person.

The US consumes around 7 and China around 3.4 tons person.

> **[Which Countries Use the Most Fossil Fuels? - Resource Watch Blog](https://blog.resourcewatch.org/2019/05/02/which-countries-use-the-most-fossil-fuels/)**
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> Although renewable energy is growing rapidly around the world, fossil fuels still make up a majority of the world’s energy use. In 2017, 81 percent of the energy the world consumed was oil, coal and natural gas. Nearly 15 billion metric tons of...