World - Electricity production from coal sources

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)

Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in World was 39.17 as of 2015. Its highest value over the past 44 years was 41.14 in 2007, while its lowest value was 30.33 in 1974.

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 33.26
1972 31.73
1973 31.61
1974 30.33
1975 30.57
1976 31.42
1977 31.28
1978 30.57
1979 31.42
1980 32.97
1981 33.15
1982 33.78
1983 34.16
1984 33.90
1985 34.82
1986 34.61
1987 35.04
1988 34.76
1989 34.24
1990 37.01
1991 37.07
1992 37.41
1993 37.38
1994 37.53
1995 37.35
1996 37.96
1997 38.02
1998 37.82
1999 37.65
2000 38.64
2001 38.45
2002 38.75
2003 39.83
2004 39.38
2005 39.86
2006 40.51
2007 41.14
2008 40.63
2009 40.02
2010 40.11
2011 41.00
2012 40.28
2013 41.04
2014 40.49
2015 39.17

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use