The Empire Strikes Back!

thecradle  |  The catastrophic debacle of Project Ukraine and the revival of an intractable West Asian war are deeply intertwined. 

Beyond the fog of Washington's “worry” about Tel Aviv’s genocidal rampage, the crucial fact is that we are right in the thick of a war against BRICS 11.      

The Empire does not do strategy; at best, it does tactical business plans on the fly. There are two immediate tactics in play: a US Armada deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean – in a failed effort to intimidate Resistance Axis behemoths Iran and Hezbollah - and a possible Milei election in Argentina tied to his avowed promise to break Brazil-Argentina relations. 

So this is a simultaneous attack on BRICS 11 on two fronts: West Asia and South America. There will be no American efforts spared to prevent BRICS 11 from getting close to OPEC+. A key aim is to instill fear in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi – as confirmed by Persian Gulf business sources.  

Even vassal leaders at the OIC show would have been aware that we are now deep into The Empire Strikes Back. That also largely explains their cowardice. 

They know that for the Hegemon, multipolarity equals “chaos,” unipolarity equals “order,” and malign actors equal   “autocrats” - such as the new Russian-Chinese-Iranian “Axis of Evil” and anyone, especially vassals, that opposes the “rules-based international order.” 

And that brings us to a tale of two ceasefires. Tens of millions across the Global Majority are asking why the Hegemon is desperate for a ceasefire in Ukraine while flatly refusing a ceasefire in Palestine. 

Freezing Project Ukraine preserves the Ghost of Hegemony just a little bit longer. Let's assume Moscow would take the bait (it won’t). But to freeze Ukraine in Europe, the Hegemon will need an Israeli win in Gaza - perhaps at any and all costs - to maintain even a vestige of its former glory. 

But can Israel achieve victory any more than Ukraine can? Tel Aviv may have already lost the war on 7 October as it can never regain its facade of invincibility. And if this transforms into a regional war that Israel loses, the US will lose its Arab vassals overnight, who today have a Chinese and Russian option waiting in the wings. 

The Roar of the Street is getting louder - demanding that the Biden administration, now seen as complicit with Tel Aviv, halt the Israeli genocide that may lead to a World War. But Washington will not comply. Wars in Europe and West Asia may be its last chance (it will lose) to subvert the emergence of a prosperous, connected, peaceful Eurasia Century.

The catastrophic debacle of Project Ukraine and the revival of an intractable West Asian war are deeply intertwined. 

Beyond the fog of Washington's “worry” about Tel Aviv’s genocidal rampage, the crucial fact is that we are right in the thick of a war against BRICS 11.      

The Empire does not do strategy; at best, it does tactical business plans on the fly. There are two immediate tactics in play: a US Armada deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean – in a failed effort to intimidate Resistance Axis behemoths Iran and Hezbollah - and a possible Milei election in Argentina tied to his avowed promise to break Brazil-Argentina relations. 

So this is a simultaneous attack on BRICS 11 on two fronts: West Asia and South America. There will be no American efforts spared to prevent BRICS 11 from getting close to OPEC+. A key aim is to instill fear in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi – as confirmed by Persian Gulf business sources.  

Even vassal leaders at the OIC show would have been aware that we are now deep into The Empire Strikes Back. That also largely explains their cowardice. 

They know that for the Hegemon, multipolarity equals “chaos,” unipolarity equals “order,” and malign actors equal   “autocrats” - such as the new Russian-Chinese-Iranian “Axis of Evil” and anyone, especially vassals, that opposes the “rules-based international order.” 

And that brings us to a tale of two ceasefires. Tens of millions across the Global Majority are asking why the Hegemon is desperate for a ceasefire in Ukraine while flatly refusing a ceasefire in Palestine. 

Freezing Project Ukraine preserves the Ghost of Hegemony just a little bit longer. Let's assume Moscow would take the bait (it won’t). But to freeze Ukraine in Europe, the Hegemon will need an Israeli win in Gaza - perhaps at any and all costs - to maintain even a vestige of its former glory. 

But can Israel achieve victory any more than Ukraine can? Tel Aviv may have already lost the war on 7 October as it can never regain its facade of invincibility. And if this transforms into a regional war that Israel loses, the US will lose its Arab vassals overnight, who today have a Chinese and Russian option waiting in the wings. 

The Roar of the Street is getting louder - demanding that the Biden administration, now seen as complicit with Tel Aviv, halt the Israeli genocide that may lead to a World War. But Washington will not comply. Wars in Europe and West Asia may be its last chance (it will lose) to subvert the emergence of a prosperous, connected, peaceful Eurasia Century.

America's 330 Million Burns As Much Oil As China And India's 2.8 Billion

statista  |  Even with the share of renewables in electricity production rising continuously over the past years, oil remains the world's most important energy source when factoring in transport and heating. 29 percent of the world's energy supply in 2020 came from oil, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency (IEA). As our chart based on the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy 2023 shows, two countries were particularly heavy oil consumers in 2022.

The United States consumed 19 million barrels of oil per day, followed by its fiercest economic and political competitor, the People's Republic of China, with 14 million barrels per day this past year. The usage of other countries pales compared to the two superpowers: The rest of the top 8 consumers combined only amounted to two thirds of the amount used by the U.S. and China.

When looking at the change in oil consumption between 2012 and 2022, the picture changes significantly. U.S. oil usage only increased by about nine percent, with China and India emerging as growth leaders with 42 and 41 percent consumption growth, respectively. All in all, four out of the five BRICS countries are featured in the top 8 oil-consuming countries, and three out of four have shown a considerable increase in appetite for fossil fuel over the past decade.

the vast active living intelligence system revisited (redux 4/24/13)

realitysandwich |  For most people, Philip K. Dick (hereafter known as PKD) is best known through films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, which were all based on his writings. Classic movies like The Matrix and Vanilla Sky also owe a great debt to PKD's work. What is not so well known is that PKD was a bit of a latter-day mystic, a man who spent the last decade or so of his life struggling to come to terms with a series of visionary experiences (not related to psychedelics) that befell him in the early 1970s. In these experiences, PKD felt as if some vast cosmic intelligence was communicating with him, as if a deity was slipping him secret information. Such was the impact of these theophanies that he chose to incorporate their thematic content into a number of novels as well as an eight-thousand-page exegesis. To the consternation of his peers, PKD began to be not a little obsessed with ideas of "divine invasion" and the like, his last books testifying to his escalating interest in theology and theistic philosophy (interestingly, his last novel, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, partly concerns the search for a sacred mushroom).

Since his death it has been speculated that PKD suffered from what is known as temporal lobe epilepsy -- a brain disorder that can lead to hallucinatory experiences -- and that this explains his mystical encounters. However, leaving aside the contentiousness of this claim, it does not deal with the burning issue of immediate mystical experience. To label an experience in order to explain it away is to avoid the very real nature of the mystical experience, however it should arise. In fact, as Huxley noted in The Doors of Perception, we should not be surprised if there is always unusual neuronal activity concurrent with a mystical experience, for, as we have seen, modified neuronal firing patterns are related to expanded forms of consciousness. Altered forms of awareness demand altered brain processes, and such a change in brain state can be achieved in many different ways, whether through psilocybin mushrooms, endogenous DMT, yoga, meditation, fasting, or spontaneous epileptic disturbances. Mystical experience is therefore not to be conveniently disposed of with a diagnostic label.

Even before his visionary experiences, PKD had long fought to discover the true nature of reality. It was his pet fascination. In a talk he delivered in the late 1970s, he admitted that for all the years he had thought about the question "what is reality?" he had gotten no further than concluding that reality was that which remained even if you stopped believing in it. Admittedly a thin definition, it is nonetheless indicative that the true nature of reality is not so easily pinned down.

PKD juggled with countless explanations for his mystical experiences. Some involved a Judeo-Christian God, others involved the Logos outlined in some of the Gnostic gospels (these are the "alternative" gospels dug up at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945), while others even opted for an advanced extraterrestrial intelligence. Whatever the case, PKD was certain that he had been "contacted" by some form of advanced transcendental intelligence-cum-Other.

One of his more enduring theories concerned VALIS, which is an acronym for "vast active living intelligence system," a notion that accords well with our intelligent Other. In the semiautobiographical novel of the same name, VALIS is a hidden entity of immense power and sentience that is in the process of infiltrating our reality by establishing communication with certain individuals. These disclosures are experienced as theophany. For our purposes, the key point is that VALIS is essentially outside of our dimension, but able to penetrate our world. The question arises as to the feasibility that a superior intelligence exists in another dimension with the capacity to move across into ours. This is one of our fanciful options concerning the Other.

Successful G7 Oil Price Caps = OPEC Rival Consumption-Based Price Setting Cartel

indianpunchline |  The Biden Administration tempted Fate by underestimating the importance of oil in modern economic and political terms and ignoring that oil will remain the dominant energy source across the world for the foreseeable future, powering everything from cars and domestic heating to huge industry titans and manufacturing plants. 

A smooth transition to green energy over time is largely dependent on the continued availability of plentiful, cheap fossil fuel. But the Biden Administration ignored that those who have oil reserves wield a huge amount of power over our oil-centred energy systems, and those who buy oil are on the contrary, cripplingly dependent on the market and the diplomatic relations which drive it. 

The Western powers are far too naive to think that an energy superpower like Russia can be simply “erased” from the ecosystem. In an “energy war” with Russia, they are doomed to end up as losers.  

Historically, Western nations understood the imperative to maintain good diplomatic relations with oil-producing countries. But Biden threw caution into the wind by insulting Saudi Arabia calling it a “Pariah” state. Any improvement in the US-Saudi relations is not to be expected under Biden’s watch. The Saudis distrust American intentions. 

The congruence of interests on the part of the OPEC to keep the prices high is essentially because they need the extra income for their expenditure budget and to maintain a healthy investment level in the oil industry. The International Monetary Fund in April projected Saudi Arabia’s breakeven oil price — the oil price at which it would balance its budget — at $79.20 a barrel. 

The Saudi government does not disclose its assumed breakeven oil price. But a Reuters report suggested that a preferred price level would be around $90 to $100 a barrel for Brent crude — at which level, it won’t have a huge impact on the global economy. Of course, over $100 will be a windfall. 

Meanwhile, a “systemic” crisis is brewing. It is only natural that the OPEC views with scepticism the recent moves by the US and the EU to push back Russia’s oil exports. The West rationalises these moves as aimed at drastically reducing Russia’s income from oil exports (which translates as its resilience to fight the war in Ukraine.) The latest G7 move to put a cap on the prices at which Russia can sell its oil is taking matters to an extreme. 

The OPEC regards it as a paradigm shift, as it implicitly challenges the cartel’s assumed prerogative to ensure that global oil supply matches demand, where one of the key measures of supply-demand balance is price. Arguably, the West is de facto setting up a rival cartel of oil-consuming countries to regulate the oil market. 

No doubt, the West’s move is precedent-setting — namely, to prescribe for geopolitical reasons the price at which an oil-producing country is entitled to export its oil. If it is Russia today, it can as well be Saudi Arabia or Iraq tomorrow. The G7 decision, if it gets implemented, will erode OPEC’s key role regulating the global oil market.

Not For Love Of Russia - Saudi Arabia Needs Oil At Above $80/bl To Fund Its Own Budget

Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Chris Murphy each demonstrate how painfully stupid and ignorant democrat congress critters are on the topic of energy, energy markets, and foreign policy. With morons like this running their mouths in public, you don't even need self-interested enemies. 

Rule of Thumb for (short and medium term) demand/supply elascity of oil; 1:20 

A 1% change in supply results in a 20% change in price. 

$100 million oil demand is close enough to estimate the impact of both the OPEC supply cuts as well as maybe a 1 million (?) reduction in RF exports to NATOland.

3% reduction in supply equals….a whopping huge increase in price. 

(note long term oil price elasticity is close to 1:1, but long term is generally out 3 years )

thehill |  Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration took aim at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its lead producer, Saudi Arabia, following the announcement that the OPEC+ bloc will cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day. 

The announcement comes months after President Biden visited Saudi Arabia to appeal to the kingdom’s leaders to increase production in hopes of reducing domestic gas prices and depriving Russia of energy revenues.

The cuts could mean an increase in gas prices ahead of election day and throw a lifeline to the Kremlin after weeks of gains by Ukrainian forces against the Russian invasion. 

“It’s clear that OPEC+ is aligning with Russia with today’s announcement,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters hours after the announcement.

Pierre was noncommittal on whether the announcement would affect broader Washington-Riyadh relations, saying, “I can speak to this decision: it’s a mistake.” 

Democrats in Congress were blunter, specifically questioning the purpose of overlooking Saudi Arabia’s human rights records and selling the nation weapons at no benefit to the U.S.  

“I thought the whole point of selling arms to the Gulf States despite their human rights abuses, nonsensical Yemen War, working against US interests in Libya, Sudan etc, was that when an international crisis came, the Gulf could choose America over Russia/China,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted Wednesday morning. 

Murphy further excoriated the decision in an interview with CNBC Wednesday from the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland, calling for a “full-scale re-evaluation” of the U.S.-Saudi alliance.  

“What’s the point of looking the other way as the Saudis chop up journalists [and] repress political speech inside Saudi Arabia if, when the chips are down, the Saudis essentially choose the Russians instead of the United States?” Murphy said, referencing the 2018 assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

“We’ve been very clear with them; we need them right now … and it seems like either the Saudis aren’t willing to stand with us or have to be pushed very hard to stand with us,” Murphy said. 

The Connecticut senator struck a pessimistic note on Biden’s July visit, saying it “does not seem to have gotten us what we need,” also referencing the collapse of the truce in Yemen’s civil war. “I think you have to be very careful doing business with the Saudis these days.”

At Current Burn Rates The U.S. Guesstimates It Has Between A 10-14 Year Total Supply

 

wikipedia |  Proven oil reserves are those quantities of petroleum which, by analysis of geological and engineering data, can be estimated, with a high degree of confidence, to be commercially recoverable from a given date forward from known reservoirs and under current economic conditions.

Some statistics on this page are disputed and controversial. Different sources (OPEC, CIA World Factbook, oil companies) give different figures. Some of the differences reflect different types of oil included. Different estimates may or may not include oil shale, mined oil sands or natural gas liquids.

Because proven reserves include oil recoverable under current economic conditions, nations may see large increases in proven reserves when known, but previously uneconomic deposits become economic to develop. In this way, Canada's proven reserves increased suddenly in 2003 when the oil sands of Alberta were seen to be economically viable. Similarly, Venezuela's proven reserves jumped in the late 2000s when the heavy oil of the Orinoco Belt was judged economic. 

Reserves amounts are listed in millions of barrels. The column "Years of production in reserve" uses the daily production figures as of 2016^[5] (multiplied by 365).

* indicates "Oil reserves in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Energy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.

Proven reserves (millions of barrels)

Country	US EIA [6]	OPEC [7]	BP [8]	Others	Oil production 2020 (bbl/day)[9]	Years of production in reserve
Venezuela *(OPEC)	303,806	302,809	300,900		527,063	1,578
Saudi Arabia *(OPEC)	258,600	266,260	266,000		9,264,921	76
Iran *(OPEC)	208,600	[10] 208,600	155,600		2,665,809	214
Canada *	170,300	4,421	172,200	[11] 171,000	4,201,101	111
Iraq *(OPEC)	145,019	147,223	143,100		4,102,311	97
Kuwait *(OPEC)	101,500	104,000	104,000		2,625,145	106
United Arab Emirates *(OPEC)	97,800	98,630	98,630		3,138,249	85
Russia *	80,000	80,000	102,400		9,865,495	22
Libya *(OPEC)	48,363	74,363	78,400		408,074	324
United States *	47,107	32,773	55,000	[12] 43,629	11,307,560	11
Nigeria *(OPEC)	36,890	37,453	37,100		1,775,940	57
Kazakhstan *	30,000	30,000	30,000		1,756,705	47
China *	26,022	25,627	18,500		3,888,989	18
Qatar *	25,244	25,244	25,244		1,530,000	45
Brazil *	12,714	12,634	13,000	[12] 16,848	2,939,950	12
Algeria *(OPEC)	12,200	12,200	12,200		1,122,432	30
Guyana *				10,000[13]	83,174	329
Ecuador	8,273	8,273	8,000		479,371	47
Norway *	8,122	6,376	8,000		1,712,937	13
Angola *(OPEC)	7,783	8,384	12,700		1,249,678	17
Azerbaijan *	7,000	7,000	7,000		693,880	28
Mexico *	5,786	6,537	10,800	[14] 9.700	1,710,303	9
Oman *	5,373	5,373	5,300		948,967	16
Sudan *	5,000	5,000	1,500		64,740	211
India *	4,604	4,495	5,680	[12] 4,409	627,415	20
Vietnam *	4,400	4,400	4,000		193,264	62
Malaysia *	3,600	3,600	3,600	[12] 5,542	541,017	18
Egypt *	3,300	4,400	3,500		586,735	15
Yemen *	3,000		3,000		66,000	124
Congo(OPEC)	2,882		1,600		282,541	28
United Kingdom *	2,500	2,069	2,800	2,618	947,208	7
Syria *	2,500	2,500	2,500		35,000	196
Uganda *	2,500
Argentina *	2,482	2,162	2,400	2,330	440,335	15
Indonesia *	2,480	3,310	3,600	[12] 3,497	712,112	10
Australia *	2,446	3,985	4,000	4,002	351,180	19
Colombia *	2,036	1,665	2,300		791,844	7
Gabon *(OPEC)	2,000	2,000	2,000		173,634	56
Chad *	1,500		1,500		115,817	35
Brunei *	1,100	1,100	1,100		98,642	31
Equatorial Guinea *(OPEC)	1,100		1,100		147,563	20
Peru *	858		1,400	[12] 1,489	40,386	58
Ghana *	660				199,478	9
Romania *	600		600		67,574	24
Turkmenistan *	600	600	600		184,579	9
Uzbekistan *	594	594	600		37,997	43
Pakistan *	540			[12] 236	79,112	19
Italy *	497		600	[12] 595	100,514	14
Denmark *	441	439	600	[12] 550	71,339	17
Tunisia *	425		400		30,738	38
Ukraine *	395	395			33,577	32
Turkey *	366			[12] 284	61,757	16
Thailand *	252		400		202,117	3
Trinidad and Tobago *	242		700	[12] 830	56,556	12
Bolivia *	240			[12] 210	60,161	11
Cameroon *	200				66,749	8
Belarus *	198	198			34,249	16
Bahrain *	186				43,000	12
DR Congo	180				23,000	21
Papua New Guinea *	159			[12] 158	40,249	11
Albania *	150				14,331	29
Chile *	150				1,582	260
Niger *	150				9,497	43
Spain *	150				628	654
Myanmar *	139				8,833	43
Philippines	138				12,249	31
Netherlands	137			[12] 141	14,579	26
Cuba *	124			[12] 124	41,079	8
Germany *	115			[12] 229	37,508	8
Poland *	113			[12] 151	18,765	16
Ivory Coast *	100				36,746	7
Suriname	89				14,915	16
Guatemala	86				7,749	30
Serbia *	77				15,249	14
Croatia *	71				11,749	17
France *	61				12,910	13
Japan *	44				4,333	28
New Zealand *	40				18,579	6
Kyrgyzstan *	40				1,000	110
Austria *	35				10,822	9
Georgia *	35				400	240
Bangladesh *	28				3,000	26
Mauritania *	20
Bulgaria *	15				1,000	41
Czech Republic *	15	15.0			2,000	21
South Africa *	15	15			1,000	41
Israel *	12			[12] 12	300	110
Hungary *	12			[12] 35	16,418	2
Lithuania *	12				2,000	16
Tajikistan *	12				180	183
Greece *	10				1,831	15
Slovakia *	9				200	123
Benin *	8
Belize *	6				1,700	10
Taiwan *	2				196	28
Barbados	1				1,000	3
Jordan *	1			[12] 1
Morocco *	0.6				160	10
Ethiopia *	0.4
Kenya *	0		750
South Sudan					162,475
Mongolia *					17,582
East Timor *					14,000
Portugal *					12,932
World	1,661,905	1,535,773	1,750,600		76,137,732	60

 wikipedia |  This list is based on CIA The World Factbook (when no citation is given).^[1] or other authoritative third-party sources (as cited). Based on data from EIA, at the start of 2021, proved gas reserves were dominated by three countries: Iran, Russia, and Qatar.

There is some disagreement on which country has the largest proven gas reserves. Sources that consider that Russia has by far the largest proven reserves include the US CIA (47600 cubic kilometers),^[2] the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) (49000 km³),^[3] and OPEC (48810 km³).^[4] However, BP credits Russia with only 32900 km³,^[5] which would place it in second place, slightly behind Iran (33100 to 33800 km³, depending on the source).

Due to constant announcements of shale gas recoverable reserves, as well as drilling in Central Asia, South America and Africa, deepwater drilling, estimates are undergoing frequent updates, mostly increasing. Since 2000, some countries, notably the US and Canada, have seen large increases in proved gas reserves due to development of shale gas, but shale gas deposits in most countries are yet to be added to reserve calculations. 

Proven Reserves (km³)

Country	U.S. EIA (start of 2021)[6]	OPEC (start of 2018)[7]	BP (start of 2018)[8]	Other	Production km³/year (in 2020)[9]	Years of production in reserve[10]
Russia *	47,798	50,617	35,000		624	77
Iran *	33,980	33,810	33,200		238 (2019)	143
Qatar *	23,871	23,861	24,900		167 (2019)	143
Saudi Arabia	15,910 (2022)	8,715	8,000		114	140
United States *	13,167 (2020)	9,067	8,700		947	14
Turkmenistan *	11,326	9,838	19,500		84 (2019)	135
China *	6,654	2,934	5,500		179 (2019)	37
United Arab Emirates *	6,088	6,091	5,900		63	97
Nigeria *	5,748	5,627	5,200	5,932[11]	46 (2019)	125
Venezuela *	5,663	5,707	6,400		23 (2019)	246
Algeria *	4,502	4,504	4,300		88 (2019)	51
Iraq *	3,738	3,744	3,500		11 (2019)	340
Australia *	3,228	3,173	3,600		146 (2019)	22
Mozambique *	2,832				5 (2019)	566
Canada *	2,067	2,059	1,900		179 (2019)	12
Uzbekistan *	1,841	1,564	1,200		47 (2019)	39
Kazakhstan *	1,840	1,898	1,100		26 (2019)	71
Egypt *	1,784	2,221	1,800		77 (2019)	23
Kuwait *	1,784	1,784	1,700		20 (2019)	89
Azerbaijan *	1,699	1,227	2,800		23 (2019)	74
Norway *	1,557	2,314	1,700		112	14
Libya	1,501	1,505	1,400		11(2019)	136
Indonesia *	1,415	2,866	2,900		63	22
India *	1,388	1,289	1,200		28	50
Malaysia *	1,189	2,909	2,700		75 (2019)	16
Ukraine *	1,104	304	1,100		20 (2019)	55
Vietnam *	708	203	600		8 (2019)	88
Oman *	651	884	700		37 (2019)	18
Myanmar *	651	273	1,200		18 (2019)	36
Pakistan *	595	757	400		38 (2019)	16
Yemen *	481		300		0.09 (2019)	5,344
Argentina *	396	381	300		41	10
Brazil *	368	325	400		25 (2019)	15
Angola *	339	422			7 (2019)	48
Peru *	311	513	400		12	26
Trinidad and Tobago *	311	433	300		31	10
Bolivia *	311	310	300		15 (2019)	21
Congo *	283	111			1.4 (2019)	202
Brunei *	261	252			12	22
Syria	241	300	300		4 (2019)	60
Papua New Guinea	184		200		12	15
Mexico	181	146	200		27 (2019)	7
United Kingdom *	181	269	200		40 (2019)	5
Israel *	176		500		10 (2019)	18
Thailand *	139	180	200		38 (2019)	4
Equatorial Guinea *	139	145			5 (2019)	28
Cameroon *	135	152			3 (2019)	45
Netherlands *	133	804	700		33 (2019)	4
Bangladesh *	127	346	200	[12] 385	29 (2019)	4
Romania *	105	105	100		10 (2019)	10
Philippines	99				4 (2019)	25
Chile *	99	5.30			1	99
Poland *	90	56.3	100		5.66	16
Colombia *	88	104	100		11	8
Sudan *	85				0	-
Bahrain *	82		200		18 (2019)	5
Cuba *	71				1 (2019)	71
Tunisia *	65				1 (2019)	65
Namibia	62				0	-
Rwanda *	57				0	-
Afghanistan *	51				0.08	638
Serbia *	48				0.45 (2019)	107
Italy *	45	27.1	100		4	11
New Zealand *	31				5	6
Ivory Coast *	28				2.44	11
Mauritania *	28				0	-
Denmark *	28	73.9	100		1.3	22
Gabon *	26	25.5			0.31 (2019)	84
Croatia	25				0.85	29
Ethiopia *	25				0	-
Georgia	8.5+16 [13]	8.5			0.02 (2019)	1,225
Germany	23	39.6	100		5 (2019)	5
Ghana	23				1.56 (2019)	15
Japan *	20				1.93	10
Moldova	-			[14] 20	0.006 (2019)	3,333
Slovakia	14				0.06	233
Uganda	14				0	-
Ecuador	11	5.4			0.34 (2019)	32
Ireland *	11				2.66 (2019)	4
South Korea *	8.5				0.24 (2019)	35
Austria	5.66				0.93 (2019)	6
Tanzania *	5.66				1.39 (2019)	4
Taiwan *	5.66				0.15 (2019)	38
Jordan *	5.66				0.12 (2019)	47
Bulgaria	5.66				0.06	94
Somalia *	5.66				0	-
Tajikistan	5.66				0.02 (2019)	283
Kyrgyzstan	5.66				0.03 (2019)	189
Albania	5.66				0.04 (2019)	142
South Africa *	-			[15] 3	1.22 (2019)	2
Turkey *	2.83			300TPAO estimate	0.48 (2019)	6
Czech Republic	2.83				0.19	15
Belarus *	2.83				2.4 (2019)	1.2
Hungary *	2.8				1.7	1.6
Spain	2.55				0.06	42
Morocco *	1.44	474			0.1 (2019)	14
Benin	1.13				0	-
DR Congo	0.99				0	-
Greece	0.99				0.01	99
Barbados	0.11				0.02 (2019)	6
Armenia *	0	18.0			0	-