number of oil tanker spills has been notably reduced from an excess of 20 large oil spills per year.
There was an average of 1.3 large oil spills from tanker incidents every year in the decade from 2020 onward. In 2023, one oil spill was reported in which more than 700 metric tons of oil leaked. In the years since the 1970's the Average annual number of large oil spills worldwide per decade from 1970 to 2023
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