| Summary Statistics and Rankings by Region | ||||||||
| Statistics | ||||||||
| Region | # of Countries | Sum of Crude Oil (in billion of barrels) | Sum of Natural Gas (in trillions of cubic feet) | Average Magnitude of Conflict | Average GINI Coefficient (1-100) | Sum of Oil Consumption (annual in million metric tonnes,1997) | Sum of Projected Population (2000) | Avg. Economic Ranking (Based on GNI per capita, 1999) |
| Central Asia | 11 | 210 | 1163 | 2.6 | 25 | 293 | 271,058,037 | 136 |
| East Asia | 7 | 24 | 52 | 1.5 | 24 | 1822 | 1,536,992,884 | 102 |
| Europe | 37 | 15 | 192 | 1.5 | 25 | 1924 | 590,130,401 | 62 |
| Middle East and N. Africa | 21 | 419 | 873 | 3.2 | 14 | 263 | 349,396,130 | 112 |
| North America | 3 | 33 | 94 | 1.0 | 40 | 2541 | 408,081,086 | 37 |
| North Asia | 1 | 49 | 1700 | 4.0 | 49 | 591 | 156,239,863 | 99 |
| Oceania and Poles | 5 | 3 | 47 | 0.0 | 7 | 120 | 23,777,465 | 56 |
| South America | 26 | 89 | 203 | 2.1 | 37 | 414 | 434,881,349 | 103 |
| South and SE Asia | 15 | 15 | 241 | 1.9 | 34 | 914 | 1,933,482,122 | 149 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 39 | 31 | 140 | 1.8 | 31 | 316 | 607,594,244 | 162 |
| Ranking | ||||||||
| Region | # of Countries | Sum of Crude Oil (in billion of barrels) | Sum of Natural Gas (in trillions of cubic feet) | Average Magnitude of Conflict | Average GINI Coefficient (1-100) | Sum of Oil Consumption (annual in million metric tonnes,1997) | Sum of Projected Population (2000) | Avg. Economic Ranking (Based on GNI per capita, 1999) |
| Central Asia | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| East Asia | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Europe | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Middle East and N. Africa | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| North America | 9 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| North Asia | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4 |
| Oceania and Poles | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 2 |
| South America | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| South and SE Asia | 5 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 10 |