Table 3 The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in terms of population, global population share, land area, population density, daily oil production, and daily oil consumption [9, 41,42,43]
Country | Population (≈ in million, as of 21 June 2022) | Global Population Share out of World’s Population (8 billion) (%) | Land Area (km2) | Population Density (pe/km2) | Oil Production in 2019 (≈ million bbl/d) | Oil Production in 2017 (bb1/d/million people) | Oil Consumption (bbl/d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bahrain | 1.78 | 0.022 | 765 | 2,332 | 0.064 | 36,000 | 58,000 |
Kuwait | 4.38 | 0.055 | 17,818 | 246 | 2.99 | 721,575 | 500,000 |
Oman | 5.33 | 0.067 | 309,500 | 17 | 1.02 | 217,178 | 176,000 |
Qatar | 2.98 | 0.037 | 11,586 | 257 | 1.99 | 500,000 | 280,000 |
Saudi Arabia | 35.85 | 0.451 | 2,149,690 | 17 | 12.4 | 324,866 | 3,237,000 |
UAE | 10.08 | 0.126 | 83,600 | 121 | 3.77 | 335,103 | 901,000 |
Total | ≈ 60.4 | ≈ 0.76 | 2,572,959 | ≈ 23.5 | ≈ 22.23 | 2,134,722 | 5,152,000 |