Ownership statistics

	By principal area	Institutions^b	Individuals	Total
Share ownership as at 31 December 2012^a

Percentage of shares in issue

	UK	33	3	36


	US	25	13	38


	Rest of Europe	12	2	14


	Rest of World	11	0	11


	Miscellaneous^c	1	-	1

		82	18	100

^a Represents BP's best efforts to determine ownership of the group's shares, based on analysis of the year-end share register.
^b Note that institutions include custodians, market makers, delivery by value, brokerage, stock lending, clearing and non-American depositary receipt arbitrage.
^c Miscellaneous represents unidentified shares that are awaiting confirmation of the identity of the holder and the nature of their interest in the shares following enquiries made under Section 793 of the Companies Act 2006.

	Range of holdings	Number of ordinary shareholders	Percentage of total ordinary shareholders	Percentage of total ordinary share capital excluding shares held in treasury
Register of members holding BP ordinary shares as at 31 December 2012


	1 - 200	59,427	20.03	0.02


	201 - 1,000	107,447	36.23	0.30


	1,001 - 10,000	117,024	39.46	1.83


	10,001 - 100,000	11,072	3.73	1.16


	100,001 - 1,000,000	882	0.30	1.74


	Over 1,000,000^a	728	0.25	94.95

		296,580	100.00	100.00

^a Includes JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. holding 26.91% of the total ordinary issued share capital (excluding shares held in treasury) as the approved depositary for ADSs, a breakdown of which is shown below.

	Range of holdings	Number of ADS holders	Percentage of total ADS holders	Percentage of total ADSs
Register of holders of American depositary shares (ADSs) as at 31 December 2012^a


	1 - 200	60,231	56.96	0.40


	201 - 1,000	28,844	27.28	1.60


	1,001 - 10,000	15,759	14.90	4.85


	10,001 - 100,000	899	0.85	1.79


	100,001 - 1,000,000	9	0.01	0.15


	Over 1,000,000^b	1	0.00	91.21

		105,743	100.00	100.00

^a One ADS represents six 25-cent ordinary shares.
^b One holder of ADSs represents 792,838 underlying shareholders.

As at 31 December 2012, there were also 1,544 preference shareholders.