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Coal > Production	244,986,000 ton		[5th of 65]
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Coal consumption	170,500,000		[6th of 41]
DEFINITION: Billion short tons of coal consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division
Commercial energy use	2,513.85		[43rd of 119]
DEFINITION: Commercial energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita). Commercial energy use refers to apparent consumption, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport.
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electric power consumption > kWh	226,461,000,000 kWh		[14th of 132]
DEFINITION: Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.		View time series
Electricity > Production by source > Fossil fuel	93.5%		[88th of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Electricity > Production by source > Nuclear	5.5%		[25th of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Gasoline prices	0.82		[95th of 141]
DEFINITION: Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average Units: Ratio of Gasoline Price to World Average Units: Pump price for super gasoline (US$ per liter): Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars, and the ratio of the gas price to the world average in the same time period was used in order to normalize the data. For more information, see World Development Indicators, Table 3.12.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Nuclear electricity generation	12 terawatt-hours		[22nd of 29]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Fuel Prices and Taxation (1999) and the electronic update for2000. Available from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002, WDI table 3.12. via ciesin.org
Nuclear energy consumption	12.6 terawatt-hours		[24th of 28]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year. Figures are provided for the year 2002.
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Nuclear reactors operable	2		[23rd of 29]
SOURCE: BP
Nuclear waste generated	-0.23		[11th of 45]
DEFINITION: Nuclear waste generated Units: Standardized Scale (z-score) Units: Two variables were initially available for Radioactive Waste: Accumulated Quantity (cubic meters) as generated and Accumulated Quantity (cubic meters) after treatment. We calculated the z-scores for the two variables, in order to make them comparable, and took whichever variable was available for each country. For the three countries (Australia, Canada and Czech Republic) which had both variables, we took the higher.
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Oil Consumption > Thousand barrels daily	525		[26th of 63]
DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Thousand barrels daily, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: International Atomic Energy Agency, Waste Management Database, 1997 via ciesin.org
Oil imports > Net	258,000 barrels per day		[16th of 21]
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Oil reserves	7,840,000 barrels		[81st of 97]
DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Primary Energy Consumption > Million tonnes oil equivalent	123.7		[18th of 63]
DEFINITION: Primary Energy: Consumption, Million tonnes oil equivalent, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Traditional fuel consumption	43.4%		[43rd of 130]
DEFINITION: Traditional fuel consumption as a % of total energy use.
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Uranium > Production	848 ton		[8th of 25]
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC		View time series
Wall plugs > Plug type South Africa
DEFINITION: PowerStream
SOURCE: Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division
Wall plugs > Voltage	230 V		[82nd of 209]
DEFINITION: PowerStream
Wind energy installation	16.6 MW		[37th of 53]
DEFINITION: Worldwide wind energy installation figures per country as at 31 December 2004

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