Saudi Arabia - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Saudi Arabia was 76.21 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 100.00 in 1989, while its lowest value was 67.67 in 1996.

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 100.00
1972 100.00
1973 100.00
1974 100.00
1975 100.00
1976 100.00
1977 100.00
1978 100.00
1979 100.00
1980 100.00
1981 100.00
1982 100.00
1983 100.00
1984 100.00
1985 100.00
1986 100.00
1987 100.00
1988 100.00
1989 100.00
1990 73.45
1991 73.40
1992 70.34
1993 69.06
1994 68.53
1995 68.42
1996 67.67
1997 69.41
1998 68.30
1999 71.80
2000 73.72
2001 81.11
2002 83.69
2003 86.74
2004 87.00
2005 86.57
2006 85.61
2007 85.67
2008 84.14
2009 72.57
2010 70.21
2011 69.79
2012 72.37
2013 76.70
2014 75.06
2015 76.21

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use