🇳🇬 Nigeria

How green is the average person in Nigeria?

Below the Paris-aligned target

Nigeria emits 0.5 tCO2 per person per year — 9.4× lower than the world average and below the Paris-aligned 2030 target. Ranked 50 of 51 countries by per-capita emissions.

Per-capita CO2
0.5 tCO2
per person, per year
Total emissions
109 Mt
218.5M people
Electricity grid
421 g/kWh
CO2 per kWh of electricity

Calculate your own footprint in Nigeria

Diet, driving, flying, heating. We turn your lifestyle into tonnes of CO2 per year and compare it to Nigeria's average.

Step 1 of 4Diet

Tell us about your year

Four short steps. Skip what you do not know. Defaults reflect a typical lifestyle in your country.

What do you eat in a typical week?

Diet is around a fifth of a typical footprint in rich countries. Animal protein dominates the impact.

Anchor: world average 4.7 tCO2/yr · Paris-aligned 2030: 2.3 tCO2/yr.

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