Japan - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Japan was 80.26 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 83.51 in 1973, while its lowest value was 48.52 in 1961.

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
1960 49.35
1961 48.52
1962 55.56
1963 56.89
1964 61.66
1965 60.33
1966 62.79
1967 71.63
1968 72.62
1969 75.70
1970 77.45
1971 75.92
1972 77.78
1973 83.51
1974 77.57
1975 77.04
1976 76.75
1977 80.18
1978 76.70
1979 74.03
1980 70.00
1981 69.62
1982 66.43
1983 65.82
1984 66.04
1985 61.66
1986 60.72
1987 61.01
1988 61.81
1989 63.15
1990 54.86
1991 54.82
1992 55.44
1993 53.79
1994 54.96
1995 54.05
1996 54.01
1997 54.33
1998 54.22
1999 57.16
2000 58.02
2001 59.02
2002 61.37
2003 65.16
2004 62.16
2005 61.38
2006 61.18
2007 64.54
2008 64.50
2009 63.06
2010 61.97
2011 73.83
2012 81.15
2013 81.60
2014 82.79
2015 80.26

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use