South Asia - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in South Asia was 80.02 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 82.06 in 2002, while its lowest value was 52.29 in 1978.

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 54.64
1972 58.03
1973 55.11
1974 58.73
1975 56.42
1976 57.38
1977 57.31
1978 52.29
1979 54.55
1980 56.12
1981 57.53
1982 61.42
1983 61.50
1984 62.21
1985 66.05
1986 67.07
1987 71.77
1988 69.95
1989 71.52
1990 70.14
1991 72.01
1992 73.54
1993 75.53
1994 73.68
1995 77.01
1996 78.99
1997 78.75
1998 78.10
1999 79.91
2000 81.26
2001 81.14
2002 82.06
2003 80.80
2004 80.53
2005 78.46
2006 77.72
2007 78.13
2008 79.75
2009 80.34
2010 79.00
2011 77.98
2012 79.60
2013 77.97
2014 79.19
2015 80.02

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use