Dry natural gas proved reserves (2021)

With 1.7K trillion cubic feet in 2021, Russian Federation leads the world in dry natural gas proved reserves, followed by Iran (1.2K trillion cubic feet) and Qatar (842.63 trillion cubic feet). The top 5 is rounded off by Turkmenistan (400 trillion cubic feet) and Saudi Arabia (332.76 trillion cubic feet). Further down, China (234.99 trillion cubic feet) and United Arab Emirates (215.1 trillion cubic feet) hold the next two spots. Nigeria (203.44 trillion cubic feet), Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (200.37 trillion cubic feet), and Algeria (159.05 trillion cubic feet) round out the top ten. At the extremes, Russian Federation is 11× as high as Algeria (159.05 trillion cubic feet). Six of the top ten are in Asia, with three from Western. Among these countries, Turkmenistan saw the largest year-over-year change at +14.3%.