What the Data Shows
China, the United States and India are compared by 2024 year-end oil refinery capacity. The rows use Energy Institute values in million barrels per day, with the same source’s 104.5 million barrels per day world total used only for context. China ranked first at 18.514 million barrels per day, just 0.098 million barrels per day above the United States. China and India together reached 23.686 million barrels per day, equal to 22.7% of world capacity and 1.29 times the United States.
Data table
Unit: million barrels per day · Period: 2024
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|
| 1 | China | 18.5M b/d | 2024 |
| 2 | United States | 18.4M b/d | 2024 |
| 3 | India | 5.2M b/d | 2024 |
Sources
Source 1: Energy Institute
Publisher: Energy Institute
Dataset/table: Oil - Refining capacity
Units: thousand barrels daily; share of world
Date checked: 2026-05-28
Evidence: Supports 2024 refinery capacity for China, India, the United States and the world total.
Data notes & caveats
Refinery capacity means reported atmospheric crude distillation and condensate splitting capacity under usual operating conditions. M b/d means million barrels per day.
Methodology
Energy Institute refinery-capacity rows were converted from thousand barrels daily to million barrels per day. World-share facts divide each row by the same source’s 2024 world capacity total of 104.523 million barrels per day.
Source consistency notes
All three rows and the world denominator use one Energy Institute 2025 Statistical Review table for 2024. The assignment named EIA/IEA as preferred sources, so the institutional fallback is kept non-final-only.
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