Most of the energy production in China is comprised of coal, which in 2006 accounted for 76.7% of total energy production. The chart below shows the percentage share for all types of energy produced in China since 1978.
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
You may also want to see the chart of sources of energy in China.
Coal is the primary source of energy in China, with a 69.4% share in 2006. Crude oil had a 20.4%, natural gas had 3.0%, and hydro-, nuclear-, and wind-power accounted for the remaining 7.2%. The chart below shows the percentage share for each energy source since 1978.
Coal accounts for approximately 70% of the total energy consumed in China. This percentage share has not changed much since 1978, as shown in the graph below. It reached a peak of 76.2% in 1990, and a low of 66.3% in 2002.
The National Bureau of Statistics of China reports energy consumption in metric tons of Standard Coal Equivalent. The graph below shows that total energy consumption in China grew from 571 million tons of SCE in 1978 to 2462 million tons of SCE in 2006. Note that one SCE equals 29.31 Giga Joules (low heat).
Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
You may also want to see our China section for more facts and statistics.
Our 15-year oil price index chart shows that oil prices in November of 2008 are roughly equal to the oil prices of November 2005. The graph also shows that there was a small spike in prices in 2006, followed by a large spike that began in January 2007 and peaked in July 2008.
A 25 year chart showing the changes in the IMF oil price index puts recent changes in the price of crude oil in perspective. The chart below, showing the oil price index since November of 1983, displays the impressive run-up that started around July of 2007.
The energy statistics section now includes regional production and consumption charts. The regions available are:
Production and consumption numbers are available for coal, crude oil, dry natural gas, hydroelectric power, natural gas plant liquids, nuclear power, and alternative fuels. Leave me a comment if you find the new charts useful.
The energy statistics section now includes country rankings for the production and consumption of coal, crude oil, dry natural gas, hydroelectric power, natural gas liquids, nuclear electric power, and alternative (geothermal, solar, wind, and wood waste) electric power. The source for all charts is the United States Energy Information Administration.
In the previous version, energy statistics could only be graphed for one country at a time.
You can now embed our energy production and consumption charts in your own blog or web site. The example below shows Saudi Arabia’s yearly crude oil production since 1980. The source of the data is the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA). Note that the EIA releases yearly numbers with a lag of up to three years.
The code I used to display the chart is shown below:
To obtain a different graph, change the following query string parameters:
country: two-character ISO country code. Example: us for the United States, fr for France
product: one of the following products: coal, oil, gas, hydro, ngl, nuclear, other
graph: production or consumption
lang: two-character ISO language code. Currently en is the only recognized value.
A quick note to let you know that thanks to the United States Department of Energy, I now have complete production and consumption numbers for crude oil, dry natural gas, coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric power. The data covers the period 1980-2004, and it is presented in nice charts and tables.