Korea - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Korea was 67.72 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 94.49 in 1977, while its lowest value was 38.57 in 1987.

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 87.48
1972 88.45
1973 91.34
1974 88.68
1975 91.64
1976 92.26
1977 94.49
1978 86.89
1979 84.61
1980 85.34
1981 86.06
1982 86.59
1983 76.07
1984 73.63
1985 64.82
1986 49.40
1987 38.57
1988 48.18
1989 44.55
1990 43.77
1991 47.20
1992 52.07
1993 56.40
1994 62.29
1995 61.33
1996 62.12
1997 63.99
1998 56.48
1999 54.44
2000 60.80
2001 62.34
2002 62.83
2003 60.71
2004 62.56
2005 60.65
2006 61.71
2007 65.33
2008 64.97
2009 66.19
2010 68.73
2011 68.62
2012 70.15
2013 72.34
2014 69.50
2015 67.72

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use