Iraq - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Iraq was 50.15 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 98.47 in 2004, while its lowest value was 50.15 in 2015.

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 92.86
1972 93.10
1973 91.76
1974 89.62
1975 89.74
1976 91.24
1977 91.11
1978 90.96
1979 89.82
1980 93.94
1981 94.36
1982 95.61
1983 96.29
1984 96.87
1985 97.09
1986 97.31
1987 88.45
1988 88.91
1989 89.10
1990 89.17
1991 95.68
1992 97.23
1993 97.72
1994 98.00
1995 98.08
1996 98.10
1997 98.08
1998 98.08
1999 98.08
2000 98.08
2001 98.08
2002 98.47
2003 98.47
2004 98.47
2005 61.32
2006 56.53
2007 55.80
2008 63.55
2009 56.42
2010 65.45
2011 71.20
2012 65.64
2013 61.88
2014 57.52
2015 50.15

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use