Nigeria CO2 emissions data for 2017
Key questions
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How much total CO₂ did Nigeria emit in 2017?
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Nigeria emitted 112.76 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2017.
This represents 0.31% of the world's entire CO₂ emissions that year.
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What was the CO₂ per capita of Nigeria in 2017?
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In 2017, Nigeria emitted 0.58 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person.
This is on a total population of 193495904.
Breakdown
The total CO₂ emissions of 112.76 million tonnes emitted by Nigeria in 2017 come from the following sources:
| Source |
CO₂ emissions (million tonnes) |
CO₂ emissions per capita (tonnes) |
| Oil |
58.47 |
0.3 |
| Gas |
32.41 |
0.17 |
| Coal |
0.14 |
0.0 |
| Cement |
7.36 |
0.04 |
| Flaring |
14.37 |
0.07 |
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