Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 21.29 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 49.69 in 1983, while its lowest value was 21.06 in 2013.

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 35.98
1972 34.45
1973 37.00
1974 38.84
1975 43.87
1976 42.29
1977 45.07
1978 45.11
1979 45.78
1980 47.99
1981 48.76
1982 48.68
1983 49.69
1984 46.40
1985 47.94
1986 43.49
1987 43.14
1988 41.82
1989 45.82
1990 40.05
1991 42.50
1992 42.06
1993 39.69
1994 40.12
1995 36.80
1996 36.47
1997 39.21
1998 33.93
1999 39.08
2000 43.31
2001 42.51
2002 41.17
2003 39.48
2004 38.58
2005 39.04
2006 40.90
2007 34.76
2008 36.01
2009 38.01
2010 35.52
2011 28.14
2012 26.95
2013 21.06
2014 24.13
2015 21.29

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use