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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.
Energy Statistics > Electricity production from coal sources > % of total (most recent) by country
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Rank
Countries
Amount
(top to bottom)
Date
#1
Botswana :
95.72 %
2004 ...
#2
Poland :
94.06 %
2004 ...
#3
South Africa :
93.23 %
2004 ...
#4
Estonia :
92.43 %
2004 ...
#5
Australia :
79.26 %
2004 ...
#6
China :
77.89 %
2004 ...
#7
Macedonia, Republic of :
77.57 %
2004 ...
#8
Israel :
75.33 %
2004 ...
#9
Kazakhstan :
69.92 %
2004 ...
#10
Serbia and Montenegro :
69.87 %
2003 ...
#11
India :
69.05 %
2004 ...
#12
Hong Kong :
68.52 %
2004 ...
#13
Morocco :
67.37 %
2004 ...
#14
Czech Republic :
60.29 %
2004 ...
#15
Greece :
60.16 %
2004 ...
#16
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
52.08 %
2004 ...
#17
Germany :
50.51 %
2004 ...
#18
United States :
50.4 %
2004 ...
#19
Denmark :
46.14 %
2004 ...
#20
Bulgaria :
46.12 %
2004 ...
#21
Zimbabwe :
42.97 %
2004 ...
#22
Indonesia :
40.13 %
2004 ...
#23
Korea, South :
38.8 %
2004 ...
#24
Korea, North :
38.58 %
2004 ...
#25
Romania :
38.54 %
2004 ...
#26
United Kingdom :
34.06 %
2004 ...
#27
Slovenia :
33.97 %
2004 ...
#28
Portugal :
33.15 %
2004 ...
#29
Ireland :
30.6 %
2004 ...
#30
Spain :
28.98 %
2004 ...
#31
Philippines :
28.94 %
2004 ...
#32
Malaysia :
27.9 %
2004 ...
#33
Finland :
27.46 %
2004 ...
#34
Japan :
27.45 %
2004 ...
#35
Netherlands :
26.04 %
2004 ...
#36
Hungary :
24.74 %
2004 ...
#37
Ukraine :
24.74 %
2004 ...
#38
Turkey :
22.86 %
2004 ...
#39
Luxembourg :
20.69 %
1997 ...
#40
Slovakia :
20.03 %
2004 ...
#41
Italy :
17.36 %
2004 ...
#42
Russia :
17.29 %
2004 ...
#43
Canada :
17.23 %
2004 ...
#44
Guatemala :
17.12 %
2004 ...
#45
Croatia :
16.21 %
2004 ...
#46
Chile :
16.09 %
2004 ...
#47
Thailand :
15.91 %
2004 ...
#48
Vietnam :
15.29 %
2004 ...
#49
Dominican Republic :
15.24 %
2004 ...
#50
Austria :
14.79 %
2004 ...
#51
Belgium :
13.61 %
2004 ...
#52
Mexico :
10.66 %
2004 ...
#53
New Zealand :
9.94 %
2004 ...
#54
Colombia :
6.05 %
2004 ...
#55
Malta :
5.51 %
1995 ...
#56
Moldova :
5.45 %
2003 ...
#57
France :
5.04 %
2004 ...
#58
Mozambique :
4.08 %
1993 ...
#59
Uzbekistan :
3.94 %
2004 ...
#60
Peru :
3.78 %
2004 ...
#61
Tanzania :
3.47 %
2004 ...
#62
Kyrgyzstan :
3.46 %
2004 ...
#63
Brazil :
2.68 %
2004 ...
#64
Argentina :
1.67 %
2004 ...
#65
Sweden :
1.65 %
2004 ...
#66
Latvia :
0.55 %
2003 ...
#67
Namibia :
0.36 %
2004 ...
#68
Pakistan :
0.2 %
2004 ...
#69
Zambia :
0.2 %
2004 ...
#70
Burma :
0.14 %
1994 ...
#71
Norway :
0.09 %
2004 ...
#72
Nigeria :
0.09 %
1992 ...
#73
Switzerland :
0.02 %
1992 ...
#74
Belarus :
0.01 %
2004 ...
Weighted average:
30.4 %
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.
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