Band 6+: The bar chart below shows the production of the world’s oil in OPEC and non-OPEC countries. Write a short report for a university lecturer describing the information shown below.

The bar chart illustrates the growth over a barrel in Global oil production in other OPEC and Non-OPEC countries in periods of time between 1980 and 2020. Additionally, the OPEC Middle East’s statistics since year 2000 are presented.

Overall, other OPEC countries always produced more oil, however, the ratio between other OPEC and Non-OPEC countries has drastically decreased in 40 years. Also, OPEC Middle East’s numbers appear in year 2000 and it immediately seizes leadership in World oil production.

According to the data, in 1980-2000 other OPEC countries extract around 12 million barrels of oil, when Non-OPEC countries extract about 2 million barrels of oil. In 2000-2010, other OPEC counties lost the lead to the Middle East OPEC countries producing approximately 13 and 18 million barrels respectively, when Non-OPEC countries produced around 7 million barrels. Finally in 2010-2020, the Middle East OPEC countries keep the lead extracting about 17.5 million barrels, other OPEC countries almost catch up with around 17 million barrels and Non-OPEC makes the biggest improvement extracting just below the previous two, around 16 million barrels of oil.