IBRD only - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in IBRD only was 50.77 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 52.20 in 2013, while its lowest value was 22.03 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 27.17
1972 26.30
1973 25.14
1974 24.91
1975 24.89
1976 23.64
1977 23.79
1978 24.00
1979 23.21
1980 22.55
1981 22.03
1982 22.38
1983 22.41
1984 23.06
1985 24.60
1986 25.25
1987 25.95
1988 25.63
1989 26.17
1990 35.98
1991 36.71
1992 38.24
1993 38.64
1994 40.28
1995 40.72
1996 41.52
1997 41.64
1998 41.16
1999 41.83
2000 42.72
2001 43.06
2002 44.02
2003 45.55
2004 45.59
2005 46.90
2006 48.67
2007 50.08
2008 49.65
2009 49.94
2010 50.12
2011 52.17
2012 51.52
2013 52.20
2014 51.34
2015 50.77

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use