Iran - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Iran was 93.86 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 97.58 in 2008, while its lowest value was 63.07 in 1972.

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 66.95
1972 63.07
1973 76.50
1974 75.57
1975 78.06
1976 77.04
1977 77.81
1978 68.51
1979 75.27
1980 74.89
1981 74.99
1982 77.83
1983 81.21
1984 84.29
1985 85.85
1986 81.92
1987 81.84
1988 84.64
1989 85.73
1990 89.71
1991 89.00
1992 86.12
1993 87.11
1994 90.91
1995 91.42
1996 91.87
1997 92.91
1998 93.20
1999 95.58
2000 96.96
2001 96.09
2002 94.27
2003 92.77
2004 93.61
2005 90.92
2006 90.46
2007 91.11
2008 97.58
2009 96.63
2010 95.84
2011 94.74
2012 94.29
2013 92.56
2014 93.18
2015 93.86

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use