Brazil - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Brazil was 23.43 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 24.25 in 2014, while its lowest value was 4.50 in 1990.

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 15.05
1972 10.08
1973 9.40
1974 7.30
1975 7.33
1976 6.95
1977 6.35
1978 7.67
1979 6.64
1980 6.22
1981 6.72
1982 5.77
1983 4.94
1984 4.63
1985 4.57
1986 8.10
1987 6.49
1988 5.54
1989 5.24
1990 4.50
1991 4.76
1992 4.85
1993 4.57
1994 4.57
1995 4.93
1996 5.61
1997 5.99
1998 6.06
1999 8.67
2000 8.67
2001 11.23
2002 10.14
2003 9.05
2004 10.83
2005 10.23
2006 9.81
2007 8.74
2008 12.61
2009 8.10
2010 12.39
2011 9.83
2012 14.60
2013 20.55
2014 24.25
2015 23.43

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use