Nigeria's electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) was 72.87% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 13.1 percentage points from 85.97% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 72.87% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 76.92% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 85.97% | 2014 |
| Highest | 85.97% | 2014 |
| Lowest | 58.14% | 1991 |
| Average since 2015 | 78% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 67.41% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Nigeria's electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) fell 4.25 percentage points on 2023 (from 77.12% to 72.87%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.52 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.2 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.91 percentage points in 2006 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.28 percentage points in 1991. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.81 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 74% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 71.03% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.52%, against 1.93% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Nigeria had the 53rd highest value of the 107 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 72.87% | 2024 |
| World | 48.67% | 2023 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 41.82% | 2023 |
| Lower middle income | 59.75% | 2023 |
Closest to Nigeria in the 2024 ranking
- Cyprus — 49th of 107: 76.28%
- India — 50th of 107: 75.84%
- Côte d'Ivoire — 51st of 107: 73.69%
- Morocco — 53rd of 107: 71.21%
- Equatorial Guinea — 54th of 107: 70.4%
- United Arab Emirates — 55th of 107: 70.06%
What this measures
The share of electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources of total electricity production. 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.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.
All 35 values
| Year | Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 72.87 |
| 2023 | 77.12 |
| 2022 | 76.05 |
| 2021 | 77.27 |
| 2020 | 78.81 |
| 2019 | 76.92 |
| 2018 | 78.87 |
| 2017 | 77.77 |
| 2016 | 80.86 |
| 2015 | 83.49 |
| 2014 |
Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in nearby economies
- Angola — 23.35% (2024)
- Benin — 92.6% (2024)
- Botswana — 99.09% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 78.04% (2024)
- Burundi — 38.7% (2021)
- Cabo Verde — 81.73% (2021)
- Cameroon — 13.23% (2024)
- Central African Republic — 3.53% (2021)
- Chad
More environment data for Nigeria
- Population in largest city — 17.16 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 11.33% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 41.75 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 17.58% (2025)
- Rural population — 86.04 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 36.22% (2025)
- Urban population — 151.48 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 63.78% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 258,230 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
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Questions people ask
- What is Nigeria's electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)?
- 72.87% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.FOSL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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