The table shows how many barrels of oil were produced everyday in four countries between 2000 and 2004.
Overall, Congo witnessed a downward trend during five years despite having the highest number of oil barrels at first. Meanwhile, Somalia, producing the fewest number of oil barrels at the early stage of the period, continuously increased throughout the period, though it ended up as the lowest category. Chad started producing oil in the last two years of the period, it underwent the most dramatic change then ended at the same number as Somalia’s. Nigeria’s daily oil production, in spite of dropping in the first three years, it then rose to take the lead at the end of the period.
Regarding the two highest countries in everyday oil production, Congo in 2000 produced 275,000 barrels of oil per day. The number gradually decreased to 234,000 in 2001, 222,000 in 2002, 215,000 in 2003, before ending up at 203,000 barrels at the end of the period. As for Nigeria, it started with 205,000 barrels of oil produced daily. In 2001, the number slighly fell to 201,000, then 190,000 in 2002. Surprisingly, Nigeria rebounded to 210,000 in 2003, then moderately climbed to 213,000 barrels of oil in 2004.
In regard to the remaining two countries, Somalia made 5,000 barrels of oil in 2000. That number moderately increased to 8,000 in 2001, then notably climbed to 17,000 in 2002, before reaching 21,000 in 2003. After that, the number was more than doubled to 50,000 at the end of the period. Meanwhile, oil was not produced in Chad from 2000 to 2002. In 2003, it manufactured 8,000 barrels of oil, the same number of Somalia’s in 2001. It then surged to 50,000, ended up with the equal number of barrels of oil as Somalia’s