Upper middle income - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in Upper middle income was 69.11 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 73.27 in 2011, while its lowest value was 33.94 in 1985.

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 38.11
1972 37.44
1973 37.16
1974 35.80
1975 36.06
1976 35.60
1977 35.53
1978 36.43
1979 35.82
1980 35.46
1981 34.78
1982 34.59
1983 34.45
1984 34.11
1985 33.94
1986 34.56
1987 34.71
1988 34.22
1989 34.77
1990 69.71
1991 69.66
1992 69.35
1993 68.01
1994 67.70
1995 66.84
1996 67.49
1997 67.53
1998 67.54
1999 67.99
2000 68.58
2001 68.86
2002 69.29
2003 71.02
2004 70.71
2005 71.21
2006 72.07
2007 73.20
2008 72.44
2009 72.05
2010 71.96
2011 73.27
2012 71.82
2013 71.73
2014 70.47
2015 69.11

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use