Nigeria - Electricity production

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Nigeria was 81.80 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 82.41 in 2014, while its lowest value was 13.03 in 1974.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

See also:

Year Value
1971 16.59
1972 35.32
1973 29.22
1974 13.03
1975 30.92
1976 29.20
1977 38.70
1978 49.25
1979 47.36
1980 61.18
1981 69.26
1982 71.02
1983 77.17
1984 70.30
1985 69.76
1986 66.28
1987 70.85
1988 65.61
1989 67.69
1990 67.41
1991 58.14
1992 59.15
1993 61.59
1994 64.19
1995 65.32
1996 66.14
1997 65.30
1998 61.78
1999 61.79
2000 61.78
2001 61.78
2002 61.78
2003 63.10
2004 66.60
2005 67.00
2006 72.90
2007 72.90
2008 72.90
2009 77.10
2010 75.60
2011 78.24
2012 80.29
2013 81.56
2014 82.41
2015 81.80

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use