Article restructuring Please note that a in this edit I have removed one long and unsourced consumption per capita table with my badly spelt comment removed tabe of energy consumption because it does not measure petroleum consumption useful somewhere else maybe but bot here and b with this edit I expanded the shorter consumption table adding a per capita column and c in this edit I merged the second consumption section up to the first and d with this edit I did move petroleum by country and consumption sections up above the sections on environmental effects and theories and alternatives I am now removing the other large unsourced table the one that lists countries by GDP divided by consumption That idea could be added to the existing table as a new column but I m too lazy to do that now so I have just moved it below here in case anyone wants to try it themselves moved GDP table There are two main ways to measure the oil consumption rates of countries by population or by gross domestic product GDP This metric is important in the global debate over oil consumption energy consumption climate change because it takes social and economic considerations into account when scoring countries on their oil consumption energy consumption climate change goals Nations such as China and India with large populations tend to promote the use of population based metrics while nations with large economies such as the United States would tend to promote the GDP based metric style text align right border 1 cellspacing 0 class wikitable sortable Selected Nations GDP to consumption ratio US 1000 barrel year Switzerland 3 75 United Kingdom 3 34 Norway 3 31 Austria 2 96 France 2 65 Germany 2 89 Sweden 2 71 Italy 2 57 European Union 2 52 DRC 2 4 Japan 2 34 Australia 2 21 Spain 1 96 Bangladesh 1 93 Poland 1 87 United States 1 65 Belgium 1 59 World 1 47 Turkey 1 39 Canada 1 35 Mexico 1 07 Ethiopia 1 04 South Korea 1 00 Philippines 1 00 Brazil 0 99 Republic of China Taiwan 0 98 China 0 94 Nigeria 0 94 India 0 94 Pakistan 0 93 Myanmar 0 89 Russia 0 84 Indonesia 0 71 Vietnam 0 61 Thailand 0 53 Saudi Arabia 0 46 Egypt 0 41 Singapore 0 40 Iran 0 35