OECD members - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in OECD members was 29.44 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 55 years was 47.22 in 1963, while its lowest value was 29.44 in 2015.

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
1960 46.55
1961 46.36
1962 47.07
1963 47.22
1964 46.75
1965 46.22
1966 45.15
1967 44.88
1968 44.36
1969 42.10
1970 39.83
1971 39.08
1972 37.29
1973 37.52
1974 35.90
1975 36.19
1976 37.84
1977 37.59
1978 36.54
1979 38.01
1980 40.44
1981 40.89
1982 41.77
1983 42.29
1984 41.65
1985 42.35
1986 41.74
1987 41.93
1988 41.60
1989 40.59
1990 39.76
1991 39.31
1992 39.04
1993 38.73
1994 38.22
1995 37.76
1996 38.30
1997 38.33
1998 38.27
1999 37.63
2000 38.45
2001 37.87
2002 37.67
2003 38.28
2004 37.33
2005 37.25
2006 36.89
2007 36.61
2008 35.80
2009 34.10
2010 33.93
2011 33.02
2012 31.83
2013 32.26
2014 31.79
2015 29.44

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use