Nigeria Energy - 2024

Electricity access

population without electricity: 66 million (2020)

electrification - total population: 59.6% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 89.2% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 26.3% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 11.691 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 24,611,480,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 4.713 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 78.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

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

solar: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

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

hydroelectricity: 21.7% 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: 0.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 44,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 85,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 12,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 77,000 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 344 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 1,646,900 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 483,100 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 1,889,100 bbl/day (2018 est.)

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

crude oil estimated reserves: 36.89 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

35,010 bbl/day (2017 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

2,332 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

223,400 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 46,296,835,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 18,787,602,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 27,509,177,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 5,760,883,000,000 cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

104.494 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 231,000 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 67.406 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 36.856 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

8.466 million Btu/person (2019 est.)