North America - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in North America was 60.84 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 76.33 in 1968, while its lowest value was 60.84 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
1960 72.13
1961 72.72
1962 72.77
1963 74.76
1964 74.77
1965 74.80
1966 75.62
1967 74.77
1968 76.33
1969 75.63
1970 76.31
1971 75.47
1972 75.20
1973 74.60
1974 70.80
1975 69.15
1976 70.25
1977 70.98
1978 68.11
1979 69.13
1980 69.93
1981 69.32
1982 66.85
1983 66.02
1984 65.95
1985 65.31
1986 63.66
1987 64.86
1988 65.12
1989 65.15
1990 62.94
1991 62.49
1992 63.11
1993 63.40
1994 63.28
1995 62.29
1996 61.90
1997 64.03
1998 65.45
1999 64.74
2000 65.70
2001 66.41
2002 65.32
2003 65.81
2004 65.68
2005 66.11
2006 65.43
2007 65.95
2008 65.26
2009 63.37
2010 64.50
2011 62.51
2012 62.68
2013 61.48
2014 61.18
2015 60.84

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use