Middle income - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Middle income was 49.36 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 50.74 in 2013, while its lowest value was 17.85 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 22.68
1972 21.63
1973 20.22
1974 19.70
1975 19.79
1976 18.43
1977 18.69
1978 19.13
1979 18.52
1980 18.06
1981 17.85
1982 18.30
1983 18.40
1984 19.08
1985 20.79
1986 21.61
1987 22.47
1988 22.22
1989 22.75
1990 32.87
1991 33.82
1992 35.44
1993 35.94
1994 37.59
1995 37.98
1996 38.79
1997 39.00
1998 38.61
1999 39.28
2000 40.39
2001 40.93
2002 41.94
2003 43.49
2004 43.59
2005 45.06
2006 46.82
2007 48.41
2008 48.12
2009 48.46
2010 48.63
2011 50.71
2012 50.09
2013 50.74
2014 49.96
2015 49.36

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use