OECD members - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in OECD members was 57.77 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 74.19 in 1973, while its lowest value was 57.43 in 1995.

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 63.81
1961 64.38
1962 65.69
1963 66.40
1964 67.71
1965 67.08
1966 67.37
1967 68.16
1968 69.47
1969 70.30
1970 71.39
1971 73.36
1972 73.40
1973 74.19
1974 71.12
1975 69.55
1976 71.18
1977 70.32
1978 68.76
1979 68.64
1980 68.59
1981 66.69
1982 64.86
1983 63.51
1984 62.28
1985 60.54
1986 59.35
1987 59.54
1988 59.12
1989 60.13
1990 58.25
1991 58.05
1992 58.05
1993 57.50
1994 58.03
1995 57.43
1996 57.44
1997 58.51
1998 59.41
1999 59.42
2000 60.30
2001 60.59
2002 60.82
2003 61.85
2004 61.14
2005 61.36
2006 61.11
2007 62.22
2008 61.44
2009 60.14
2010 60.25
2011 60.29
2012 60.48
2013 59.24
2014 58.40
2015 57.77

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use