OECD members - Electricity production from coal sources
Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)
Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in OECD members was 29.44 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 47.22 in 1963, while its lowest value was 29.44 in 2015.
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 |
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1960 | 46.55 |
1961 | 46.36 |
1962 | 47.07 |
1963 | 47.22 |
1964 | 46.75 |
1965 | 46.22 |
1966 | 45.15 |
1967 | 44.88 |
1968 | 44.36 |
1969 | 42.10 |
1970 | 39.83 |
1971 | 39.08 |
1972 | 37.29 |
1973 | 37.52 |
1974 | 35.90 |
1975 | 36.19 |
1976 | 37.84 |
1977 | 37.59 |
1978 | 36.54 |
1979 | 38.01 |
1980 | 40.44 |
1981 | 40.89 |
1982 | 41.77 |
1983 | 42.29 |
1984 | 41.65 |
1985 | 42.35 |
1986 | 41.74 |
1987 | 41.93 |
1988 | 41.60 |
1989 | 40.59 |
1990 | 39.76 |
1991 | 39.31 |
1992 | 39.04 |
1993 | 38.73 |
1994 | 38.22 |
1995 | 37.76 |
1996 | 38.30 |
1997 | 38.33 |
1998 | 38.27 |
1999 | 37.63 |
2000 | 38.45 |
2001 | 37.87 |
2002 | 37.67 |
2003 | 38.28 |
2004 | 37.33 |
2005 | 37.25 |
2006 | 36.89 |
2007 | 36.61 |
2008 | 35.80 |
2009 | 34.10 |
2010 | 33.93 |
2011 | 33.02 |
2012 | 31.83 |
2013 | 32.26 |
2014 | 31.79 |
2015 | 29.44 |
Classification
Topic: Environment Indicators
Sub-Topic: Energy production & use