This line graph shows international oil production in million barrels per day from 1960 to 2000, comparing 4 continents: Middle East, Africa, North America, and Asia. Overall, the trend of all continents has risen throughout four decades. The amount of oil that was produced by Middle East had the highest jump, meanwhile Asia was the least increased continent producing oil. The amount of oil that was produced by Africa fluctuated consistently but gradually improved in the last move which made it became the second world oil production continent.
The amount of oil that originated in Middle East started with the highest point at 20 million barrels per day. It grew steadily at first ten years and had a significant jump to just below 40 million barrels per day in 1980; it improved with similar pattern and ended around 55 million barrels per day, which was still owned the highest oil production. The amount of oil produced in Africa went up, down, and up sharply to 30, around 20, around 35 million barrels per day respectively in 3 decades earlier; however, it had a small increase at last to ended at 40 million barrels per day.
The number of oil production of North America and Asia both started at 5 million barrels per day and grew separately. North America had a high growth rate of oil production in first two decades to around 27 million barrels per day and slightly surged to below 35 million barrels per day in 2000. Meanwhile, the latter constantly improved with a low rate throughout 40 years and stopped by 20 million barrels per day.