The charts below show the proportions of the world's oil resources held in different areas, together with the proportions consumed annually in the same areas. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The two graphs compare the amount of oil resources in the world on several surfaces

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the annual consumption of the liquid.

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, the Asian continent has the highest percentage of the globe’s annual crude consumption even though it possesses few of the liquid’s resources.

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it is clear that

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the Middle East has the most important quantity of

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resource, but it does not consume much of it. Indeed, Asia is responsible for more than a quarter of the Earth’s fuel consumption. In

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continent, 26.21% of the liquid is used each year.

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, in most areas, no more than 7% of it is consumed annually, which means that Asia uses more than 3 times as much of the natural fluid as the other countries, even though it has less than 3% of the resource.

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, the Middle East is home to more than half of the world’s petrol quantities. More precisely, 56.52% of it is in that area.

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, it does not consume more than 7% of the fluid annually.