Fuel Prices Niger

Part of: GIZ International Fuel Price database
Also see: Niger Energy Situation

Fuel Pricing Policies

Local Currency:	FCFA
Exchange Rate:	472.9 (2010/11/17)
Last Update:

"Prices have been uniform throughout the country since Aug 2001. Beginning in Jan 2012, gasoline and diesel prices are set by a ministerial decree. Prices were adjusted once in 2009 and 2010, and four times in 2011. In Jan 2012, prices of all fuels except kerosene were lowered, and have not been adjusted since. Protests against the cost of living broke out in Dec 2011 in Zinder, after the opening of the country’s first refinery there did not sufficiently reduce fuel prices. An energy fund, created in 1994, has taken a few francs a liter from gasoline and diesel and cross-subsidized LPG. Fuel subsidies amounted to US$29 million in 2009 (0.5% of GDP), US$61 million in 2010 (1.1% of GDP), and US$70 million in 2011 (1.2% of GDP). With the start-up of oil production and refinery operation in 2011, explicit fuel price subsidies were eliminated in 2012. SONIDEP (Nigerien Petroleum Products Company) posts current and historical prices going back to 2001 on its Web site."

(Source: Kojima, Masami. (2013, forthcoming). “Petroleum product pricing and complementary policies:Experience of 65 developing countries since 2009.” Washington DC: World Bank.)

Fuel Prices and Trends

	Gasoline 95 Octane	Diesel
in USD*
in Local Currency

* benchmark lines: green=US price; grey=price in Spain; red=price of Crude Oil

Fuel Price Composition

Price composition.

No information available.

At a Glance

Regulation-Price-Matrix	Transparency of Price Composition Transparency of Pricing Mechanism / Monitoring

Sources to the Public

Type of Information	Web-Link / Source
Pump prices and margins	http://www.sonidep.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=61 (Historic prices 2001 - 2013, monthly data)
Pump prices and margins	http://www.sonidep.net/

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