Global oil production share 2010-2023, by region

The Middle East produces more oil than any other region in the world, accounting for slightly less than a third of global oil production in 2023, at 31.5 percent. Overall, the Middle Eastern oil production makes up a slightly larger share of global production than it did ten years ago, but the contribution to worldwide oil production has risen most consistently in North America, while declining in all other regions. Shifts in North American oil productionOver the past decade, higher oil production in North America has largely been driven by the United States. In the last ten years, oil production in the United States has more than doubled, with its annual output only mildly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, Canada's crude oil production has also increased in the period, although in a less consistent manner. The U.S. moves towards less dependencyOil prices from OPEC countries, many of which are in the Middle East, had been rising in the years leading up to the global recession, reaching a peak in 2012. As a result, the United States decreased oil imports, and investors capitalized on lower interest rates to develop technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) that would allow domestic oil extraction from wells deep underground that were once too hard to reach. In 2019, before oil demand was affected by the pandemic, the North American country's imports dipped below 2.5 million barrels, a 26 percent drop in comparison to a decade earlier.

中东地区产油量位居全球各地区之首，在2023年全球石油产量中占比略低于三分之一，达到31.5%。总体而言，中东地区的石油产量在全球产量中所占比例略高于十年前，然而对全球石油产量的贡献持续增长的区域主要在北美，而其他所有地区的贡献均有所下降。北美石油生产的变化在过去十年间，北美石油产量的增长主要得益于美国的推动。在过去十年中，美国的石油产量翻了一番多，其年度产量仅受到新冠疫情的轻微影响。与此同时，加拿大的原油产量在同一时期也有所增加，但增长模式并不稳定。美国向降低依赖迈进石油输出国组织（OPEC）国家的油价，其中许多位于中东，在全球化衰退前的数年间持续上涨，于2012年达到峰值。因此，美国减少了石油进口，投资者利用较低的利率发展了诸如水力压裂（fracking）等技术，这些技术能够从曾经难以触及的深井中提取国内石油。在2019年，在疫情影响石油需求之前，北美国家的进口量下降至250万桶以下，较十年前下降了26%。