Libya Energy - 2024

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 70.2% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 10.516 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 25,360,340,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 465 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 6.801 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 100% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 1,252,800 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 219,700 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 1,067,400 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 48.363 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

89,620 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

16,880 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

168,200 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 12,414,736,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

consumption: 7,669,690,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 4,441,150,000 cubic meters (2020 est.)

imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 1,504,868,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

38.297 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 0 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 30.018 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 8.279 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

107.118 million Btu/person (2019 est.)