Korea - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in Korea was 43.08 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 46.24 in 2009, while its lowest value was 2.95 in 1978.

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 6.87
1972 6.86
1973 9.05
1974 4.41
1975 6.52
1976 6.38
1977 5.23
1978 2.95
1979 3.52
1980 6.66
1981 6.29
1982 6.06
1983 8.78
1984 24.87
1985 30.41
1986 27.26
1987 20.02
1988 22.12
1989 18.87
1990 16.76
1991 14.43
1992 13.89
1993 21.88
1994 25.94
1995 27.22
1996 28.33
1997 31.20
1998 37.17
1999 35.88
2000 38.61
2001 39.93
2002 40.58
2003 39.11
2004 38.80
2005 38.36
2006 38.01
2007 40.08
2008 43.20
2009 46.24
2010 44.14
2011 43.17
2012 45.08
2013 41.43
2014 42.41
2015 43.08

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use