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Coal > Production	7,195,000 ton		[19th of 65]
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Coal consumption	70,000		[36th of 41]
DEFINITION: Billion short tons of coal consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division
Coal Proved Reserves > Total	2,690		[17th of 32]
DEFINITION: Coal Proved Reserves - Total, million tonnes, as of end of 2004
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electric generation ability	21,000,000 killowatts		[10th of 32]
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Electric power consumption > kWh	72,116,000,000 kWh		[32nd 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
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electricity > Production by source > Fossil fuel	31.7%		[174th 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 > Hydro	68.3%		[34th 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
Electricity > Production by source > Nuclear	0%		[211st 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	0.2		[138th 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
Geothermal power use	4		[50th of 53]
DEFINITION: Annual utilization of geothermal power from direct-use sources in GWh/yr as of 2000.
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
Hydroelectricity consumption	59.58		[9th of 213]
DEFINITION: Figures for year 2003 in billion kilowatthours
SOURCE: Lund and Freeston; Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2000
Oil Consumption > Million tonnes	26.3		[25th of 63]
DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Million tonnes, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05		View time series
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration
Oil Consumption > Thousand barrels daily	577		[24th of 63]
DEFINITION: Oil: Consumption, Thousand barrels daily, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Oil production in 1972	3,301 thousand barrels / day		[5th of 36]
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Oil reserves	75,590,000,000 barrels		[7th 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: BP
OPEC > About OPEC > OPEC Quotas and Production > Capacity	2,450,000		[4th of 10]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Primary Energy Consumption > Million tonnes oil equivalent	67.6		[26th of 63]
DEFINITION: Primary Energy: Consumption, Million tonnes oil equivalent, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: Wikipedia: OPEC
Traditional fuel consumption	0.7%		[116th of 130]
DEFINITION: Traditional fuel consumption as a % of total energy use.
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Wall plugs > Plug type	USA
DEFINITION: PowerStream
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Wall plugs > Voltage	120 V		[186th of 209]
DEFINITION: PowerStream

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