El Salvador - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in El Salvador was 42.18 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 54.34 in 1975, while its lowest value was 0.46 in 1979.

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 29.27
1972 45.30
1973 46.35
1974 43.35
1975 54.34
1976 37.08
1977 27.64
1978 10.91
1979 0.46
1980 1.51
1981 4.28
1982 5.68
1983 4.29
1984 4.03
1985 6.62
1986 4.01
1987 17.12
1988 12.57
1989 8.08
1990 6.81
1991 26.30
1992 24.14
1993 31.80
1994 41.05
1995 42.18
1996 31.50
1997 46.60
1998 46.57
1999 35.80
2000 41.93
2001 45.82
2002 48.61
2003 42.74
2004 45.36
2005 41.76
2006 42.62
2007 43.80
2008 37.48
2009 43.70
2010 34.96
2011 37.07
2012 39.76
2013 39.56
2014 40.30
2015 42.18

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use