Ivan Vera, Evelyne Bertel & Geoffrey Stevens

Table 3: Natural gas consumption and net imports for selected countries, 1996 (million cubic metres)

	Consumption	Net imports	% imports

Japan	67 679	64 972	96%
France	37 520	34 400	92%
Germany	103 804	83 365	80%
Italy	56 100	37 064	66%
United States	619 969	76 789	12%
OECD Pacific	92 943	54 995	59%
OECD Europe	419 088	136 003	32%
OECD America	735 294	-1 927	-0.3%

Source: 'National Gas Information', International Energy Agency, 1996.