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Oil consumption by area
This stacked area chart shows world oil consumption according to geographic region for the years from 1978 to 2004. Oil consumption is measured in thousand barrels per day.

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	Units	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983
Total North America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	21,484	21,317	20,012	18,989	18,070	17,884
Total S. & Cent. America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	3,217	3,374	3,331	3,284	3,268	3,196
Total Europe & Eurasia - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	24,586	25,118	24,416	23,507	22,773	22,344
Total Middle East - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	1,842	2,096	2,046	2,208	2,364	2,594
Total Africa - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	1,215	1,296	1,378	1,480	1,589	1,643
Total Asia Pacific - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	10,815	11,106	10,568	10,339	10,008	10,141

	Units	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Total North America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	18,474	18,535	19,085	19,598	20,303	20,503
Total S. & Cent. America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	3,171	3,132	3,309	3,432	3,529	3,564
Total Europe & Eurasia - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	22,455	22,235	22,800	22,947	23,001	23,048
Total Middle East - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	2,733	2,910	2,957	3,037	3,012	3,137
Total Africa - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	1,667	1,710	1,689	1,753	1,823	1,902
Total Asia Pacific - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	10,502	10,449	10,951	11,284	12,145	12,889

	Units	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Total North America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	20,206	19,908	20,279	20,586	21,232	21,150
Total S. & Cent. America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	3,557	3,598	3,723	3,804	3,976	4,136
Total Europe & Eurasia - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	23,366	22,856	22,001	20,548	19,752	19,625
Total Middle East - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	3,436	3,545	3,624	3,774	4,044	4,160
Total Africa - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	1,977	1,994	2,044	2,074	2,130	2,199
Total Asia Pacific - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	13,730	14,327	15,290	15,974	17,083	18,077

	Units	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total North America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	21,793	22,275	22,674	23,286	23,522	23,571
Total S. & Cent. America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	4,300	4,539	4,683	4,704	4,659	4,739
Total Europe & Eurasia - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	19,430	19,610	19,743	19,671	19,452	19,602
Total Middle East - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	4,263	4,364	4,417	4,488	4,601	4,704
Total Africa - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	2,241	2,313	2,394	2,452	2,462	2,476
Total Asia Pacific - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	18,842	19,685	19,321	20,246	21,054	21,159

	Units	2002	2003	2004
Total North America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	23,665	24,049	24,619
Total S. & Cent. America - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	4,684	4,580	4,739
Total Europe & Eurasia - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	19,533	19,726	20,017
Total Middle East - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	4,919	5,034	5,289
Total Africa - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	2,506	2,567	2,647
Total Asia Pacific - Oil consumption	'000 barrels/day	21,739	22,337	23,446

(8) Inland demand plus international aviation and marine bunkers and refinery fuel and loss.

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