China - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in China was 70.31 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 80.95 in 2007, while its lowest value was 50.57 in 1976.

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
1971 70.12
1972 63.62
1973 57.92
1974 56.78
1975 55.81
1976 50.57
1977 56.64
1978 60.58
1979 56.51
1980 53.04
1981 52.67
1982 54.33
1983 54.85
1984 58.29
1985 63.47
1986 66.65
1987 68.35
1988 68.54
1989 69.27
1990 71.04
1991 73.51
1992 75.03
1993 73.50
1994 74.79
1995 73.75
1996 76.20
1997 76.36
1998 75.64
1999 77.67
2000 78.21
2001 76.25
2002 77.54
2003 79.56
2004 78.17
2005 79.20
2006 80.34
2007 80.95
2008 78.75
2009 78.38
2010 77.19
2011 78.88
2012 75.66
2013 75.28
2014 72.63
2015 70.31

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use