Arab World - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Arab World was 86.10 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 91.88 in 1988, while its lowest value was 67.73 in 1971.

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 67.73
1972 69.11
1973 73.45
1974 72.18
1975 74.05
1976 74.67
1977 75.06
1978 77.66
1979 80.71
1980 83.13
1981 85.08
1982 87.00
1983 89.05
1984 90.01
1985 91.09
1986 91.64
1987 91.34
1988 91.88
1989 91.73
1990 84.75
1991 84.76
1992 84.83
1993 84.68
1994 84.81
1995 85.05
1996 84.79
1997 85.37
1998 85.53
1999 86.60
2000 87.54
2001 89.44
2002 91.02
2003 91.58
2004 91.73
2005 90.09
2006 89.92
2007 89.98
2008 90.33
2009 86.82
2010 85.85
2011 86.04
2012 86.75
2013 87.06
2014 86.24
2015 86.10

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use