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Australia: Electricity production from coal sources

43.81percent · 2025-30.6% since 2015

The share of electricity production from coal sources of total electricity production. 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. Annual figures for Australia from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202543.812
202445.953
202346.59
202249.199
202152.837
202054.877
201958.443
201860.412
201762.722
201663.614
201563.133
201461.392
201363.797
201268.612
201168.02
201071.325
200974.88
200875.789
200776.997
200679.586
200579.423
200477.581
200377.413
200277.049
200183.152
200082.885
199982.603
199883.85
199782.81
199682.018
199579.998
199480.978
199380.232
199280.925
199180.206
199078.363

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Energy Agency. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Electricity production from coal sources. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-electricity-production-from-coal-sources (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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