Upper middle income - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Upper middle income was 51.08 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 54.71 in 2011, while its lowest value was 18.46 in 1981.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.

Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/

See also:

Year Value
1971 24.13
1972 22.73
1973 21.27
1974 20.57
1975 20.78
1976 18.80
1977 19.34
1978 20.17
1979 19.50
1980 18.88
1981 18.46
1982 18.83
1983 18.94
1984 19.57
1985 21.19
1986 21.87
1987 22.45
1988 22.22
1989 22.81
1990 32.67
1991 33.66
1992 35.55
1993 36.25
1994 38.66
1995 38.84
1996 40.08
1997 40.37
1998 39.99
1999 40.65
2000 41.84
2001 42.41
2002 43.81
2003 46.21
2004 46.62
2005 48.53
2006 50.46
2007 52.41
2008 51.70
2009 52.22
2010 52.29
2011 54.71
2012 53.12
2013 53.62
2014 52.25
2015 51.08

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use