Japan - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Japan was 33.15 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 33.44 in 1963, while its lowest value was 8.01 in 1973.

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/

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Year Value
1960 32.21
1961 28.54
1962 33.05
1963 33.44
1964 29.32
1965 27.85
1966 28.86
1967 32.82
1968 29.38
1969 22.03
1970 16.94
1971 11.86
1972 9.77
1973 8.01
1974 8.70
1975 8.94
1976 8.63
1977 8.93
1978 8.50
1979 8.60
1980 9.60
1981 10.82
1982 11.63
1983 12.71
1984 14.09
1985 14.89
1986 14.61
1987 15.08
1988 14.84
1989 14.81
1990 13.49
1991 13.83
1992 14.37
1993 15.31
1994 15.85
1995 16.75
1996 17.37
1997 18.16
1998 18.24
1999 19.91
2000 21.48
2001 23.38
2002 24.62
2003 26.38
2004 26.46
2005 27.23
2006 26.59
2007 27.35
2008 27.23
2009 27.17
2010 27.16
2011 27.10
2012 29.72
2013 32.93
2014 32.74
2015 33.15

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use