A report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has stated households in Nigeria spend an average N10,239.7 on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) monthly.
The report titled Nigeria Residential Energy Demand-Side Survey (NREDSS), 2024, added that 19.4 per cent of households reported using LPG during the reference period as their source of cooking.
“This means that about one in every five households uses LPG,” the report said. The report added that about 41 per cent of households reported purchasing fuelwood, closely followed by cutting/collection (39.0 per cent), and only 18.9 per cent of households used other means such as barter, gift, borrowing etc.
It added that more than half of the fuelwood cut/collected by households, 55.3 per cent, were branches, stems and trees.
“An estimated 67.8 per cent of households used the fuelwood either for domestic, agricultural, commercial, cultural, or religious purposes. The survey also found that one in every five households (22.0 per cent) used charcoal during the reference period.
“Among households using charcoal, 21.6 per cent purchased the product, and only 0.3 and 0.6 per cent acquired it through their own production, and other means respectively.”
