Keith_McClary wrote:Is this infographic accurate?:
FWIW, I read several articles on this site. While it's an interesting site and I appreciate what they're trying to do (simplify topics for the masses, and educate people about key economic ideas -- doomers could learn a thing or three, but of course they won't), they are very bad about DEFINING terms.
Until underlying assumptions are well defined, statistics are kind of useless.
Re the oil Just looking around a little, I find WILDLY differing statistics on different sites. Sites which do a hell of a lot better at defining what they mean by oil reserves, economic assumptions, etc.
Googling "oil reserves by country map", I get different results. From the numbers, the above map seems to correlate with proven reserves from 2017, per Wikipedia. FWIW.
Under the "by country" article on oil reserves from that search, Wiki on "Oil Reserves" generally goes into different methods, estimates, assumptions, etc. but much of the data is older.
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So, I'd say it's not too bad, if you want to use proven reserves by whatever assumptions the source provides. I see enough rough corroboration by other sources that the numbers overall seem at least "reasonable" re the top ten countries or so.
This being based on just a quick look / sanity check, and by a layman with no deep knowledge of the oil industry.