High income - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in High income was 59.38 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 74.24 in 1973, while its lowest value was 58.03 in 1995.

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
1960 63.62
1961 64.20
1962 65.48
1963 66.24
1964 67.52
1965 66.91
1966 67.19
1967 67.97
1968 69.31
1969 70.12
1970 71.20
1971 73.40
1972 73.47
1973 74.24
1974 71.18
1975 69.62
1976 71.36
1977 70.53
1978 68.91
1979 68.84
1980 68.79
1981 66.99
1982 65.15
1983 63.63
1984 62.47
1985 60.70
1986 59.53
1987 59.77
1988 59.66
1989 60.60
1990 58.59
1991 58.33
1992 58.42
1993 58.10
1994 58.43
1995 58.03
1996 58.10
1997 59.10
1998 59.94
1999 60.03
2000 60.84
2001 61.16
2002 61.54
2003 62.59
2004 62.09
2005 62.28
2006 62.13
2007 63.11
2008 62.45
2009 60.90
2010 61.17
2011 61.25
2012 61.53
2013 60.48
2014 59.65
2015 59.38

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use