Venezuela - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Venezuela was 36.30 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 62.15 in 1973, while its lowest value was 24.84 in 1999.

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 60.34
1972 59.94
1973 62.15
1974 56.76
1975 52.76
1976 48.48
1977 46.81
1978 52.00
1979 53.94
1980 59.26
1981 61.06
1982 59.83
1983 58.28
1984 55.16
1985 52.11
1986 49.79
1987 43.02
1988 41.28
1989 39.84
1990 37.66
1991 29.67
1992 29.91
1993 31.57
1994 27.99
1995 29.95
1996 28.76
1997 26.64
1998 28.40
1999 24.84
2000 26.25
2001 32.93
2002 35.18
2003 34.16
2004 28.90
2005 26.72
2006 26.10
2007 27.28
2008 27.21
2009 28.11
2010 32.51
2011 29.07
2012 32.59
2013 32.17
2014 31.74
2015 36.30

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use