Costa Rica - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Costa Rica was 1.00 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 23.47 in 1977, while its lowest value was 0.80 in 2004.

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 9.58
1972 12.79
1973 15.52
1974 14.51
1975 14.89
1976 11.54
1977 23.47
1978 22.81
1979 18.28
1980 4.31
1981 2.96
1982 2.72
1983 2.58
1984 1.73
1985 1.78
1986 1.63
1987 3.93
1988 4.29
1989 2.40
1990 2.48
1991 5.12
1992 17.16
1993 10.08
1994 9.85
1995 17.25
1996 9.29
1997 3.05
1998 8.15
1999 2.15
2000 0.85
2001 1.48
2002 1.62
2003 2.11
2004 0.80
2005 3.28
2006 6.13
2007 7.98
2008 7.15
2009 4.84
2010 6.69
2011 8.78
2012 8.16
2013 11.69
2014 10.21
2015 1.00

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use