South Asia - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in South Asia was 66.10 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 66.10 in 2015, while its lowest value was 41.79 in 1978.

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
1971 42.62
1972 45.42
1973 42.64
1974 46.06
1975 44.34
1976 47.10
1977 45.96
1978 41.79
1979 42.55
1980 43.64
1981 45.79
1982 48.39
1983 48.59
1984 49.42
1985 53.12
1986 54.20
1987 58.36
1988 56.79
1989 57.80
1990 55.50
1991 56.90
1992 56.93
1993 58.86
1994 57.06
1995 59.11
1996 59.64
1997 58.45
1998 56.69
1999 57.20
2000 58.42
2001 58.96
2002 59.24
2003 57.48
2004 57.01
2005 55.97
2006 56.00
2007 55.58
2008 58.41
2009 57.37
2010 57.84
2011 57.99
2012 62.31
2013 62.96
2014 65.13
2015 66.10

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use