* Oil spills larger in size than 7 tons of oil.
** The disparity of the size of oil spills is apparent when comparing the share of oil spilt to the number of incidents that correspond to each of the two categories given for each decade.
The acronym ITOPF stands for The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited.
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Global oil spill volume to number of oil tanker spill incidents ratio 1970-2019
In the , a ** percent share of the oil spilt from oil tanker spill incidents came from ** incidents. The remaining nine percent of the oil spilt from oil tankers in that decade corresponded to some ** distinct incidents.
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