World - Electricity production

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

Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources (% of total) in World was 65.24 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 67.20 in 2007, while its lowest value was 51.47 in 1986.

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 61.68
1972 61.65
1973 62.17
1974 59.63
1975 58.46
1976 59.62
1977 58.99
1978 57.89
1979 57.76
1980 57.68
1981 56.30
1982 55.06
1983 54.08
1984 53.23
1985 52.09
1986 51.47
1987 51.86
1988 51.62
1989 52.42
1990 61.94
1991 61.74
1992 61.74
1993 61.20
1994 61.29
1995 61.02
1996 61.25
1997 62.05
1998 62.57
1999 62.88
2000 63.69
2001 64.09
2002 64.62
2003 65.83
2004 65.50
2005 65.76
2006 66.08
2007 67.20
2008 66.83
2009 66.12
2010 66.31
2011 66.99
2012 66.82
2013 66.32
2014 65.63
2015 65.24

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use