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Global Quantity of Oil Spilled from Tankers (1970–2022)
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The number of oil spills and the quantity of oil that is spilled from tankers — container ships transporting oil — has fallen substantially in recent decades.
On our new page, you can find all our data, visualizations, and writing related to oil spills from tankers, for which consistent, high-quality global data is available.
But not all oil spills come from tankers. They can also come from other sites, such as offshore oil rigs and damaged pipelines.
Dataset
Entity | Code | Year | Quantity of oil spilled |
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World | OWID_WRL | 1970 | 383000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1971 | 144000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1972 | 313000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1973 | 159000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1974 | 174000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1975 | 352000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1976 | 365000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1977 | 276000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1978 | 393000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1979 | 636000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1980 | 206000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1981 | 48000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1982 | 12000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1983 | 384000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1984 | 29000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1985 | 85000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1986 | 19000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1987 | 38000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1988 | 190000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1989 | 164000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1990 | 61000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1991 | 431000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1992 | 167000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1993 | 140000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1994 | 130000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1995 | 12000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1996 | 80000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1997 | 72000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1998 | 13000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 1999 | 28000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2000 | 14000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2001 | 9000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2002 | 66000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2003 | 43000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2004 | 17000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2005 | 15000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2006 | 12000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2007 | 15000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2008 | 2000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2009 | 3000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2010 | 12000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2011 | 2000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2012 | 1000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2013 | 7000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2014 | 5000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2015 | 7000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2016 | 6000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2017 | 7000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2018 | 116000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2019 | 1000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2020 | 1000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2021 | 10000 |
World | OWID_WRL | 2022 | 15000 |
Data sources
Data accessed: 2023-05-18
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