China - Electricity production

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in China was 72.96 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 82.84 in 2007, while its lowest value was 72.96 in 2015.

Definition: Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. 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 78.43
1972 77.87
1973 77.47
1974 74.79
1975 77.30
1976 77.90
1977 78.97
1978 82.62
1979 82.23
1980 80.64
1981 78.80
1982 77.29
1983 75.43
1984 77.01
1985 77.51
1986 78.97
1987 79.89
1988 79.98
1989 79.76
1990 79.59
1991 81.53
1992 82.42
1993 81.68
1994 80.32
1995 79.51
1996 81.12
1997 81.22
1998 80.73
1999 82.11
2000 82.13
2001 79.86
2002 80.86
2003 82.69
2004 81.49
2005 81.70
2006 82.49
2007 82.84
2008 80.29
2009 80.25
2010 79.40
2011 81.17
2012 77.86
2013 77.42
2014 74.82
2015 72.96

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use