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This is a list of countries by natural gas production based on statistics from the International Energy Agency.
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According to the International Energy Agency, the top 10 natural gas producers in 2013 were (in billion cubic meters): 1) United States 689 (19.8%), 2) Russia 671 (19.3%), 3)Iran 255 (5.86%), 4)Qatar 161 (4.6%), 5) Canada 155 (4.5%), 6) China 115 (3.3%), 7) Norway 109 (3.1%), 8) Netherlands 86 (2.5%), 9) Saudi Arabia 84 (2.4%), 10) Algeria 80 (2.3%), together producing two thirds of the total world production of 3,479 billion cubic meters.
Production trends
In 2009, world production of natural gas was cut down by 2.8%. Different trends were noticed among largest gas producers. The US became the world's largest gas producer in 2009, exceeding Russian volumes.
In 2010, Russia returned to first place. Its production increased by 4.4% and balanced a shrinking output in the European countries (-9%, despite increasing outputs in Norway and the Netherlands). The OECD thus posted a slight growth of 0.1% in 2009. Conversely, gas production in Russia was scaled down by 12% while Algeria experienced a substantial decline in its production (-6%). In the Middle East, gas production development slowed down and grew at a slower pace than the previous year (4% from 7% in 2008).
Natural gas production
The data in the following table comes from The World Factbook.