Japan vs Nigeria: Coal production per person

Japan
25.7 kilowatt-hours per person
in 2025
Nigeria
38.16 kilowatt-hours per person
in 2024
Japan rank
58th
Nigeria rank
55th

Coal production per person over time

  • Japan
  • Nigeria
02.0k4.0k6.0k190019622025

How they compare

Nigeria currently reports 38.16 kilowatt-hours per person against 25.7 kilowatt-hours per person in Japan, a difference of 12.46 kilowatt-hours per person.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.5 times Japan's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 125 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Japan ahead.

Japan ranks 58th and Nigeria ranks 55th of 218 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Coal production per person
Unit
kilowatt-hours per person
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
219 places, 14,879 data points, 1700–2025
Last refreshed

Measured in kilowatt-hours per person.