Electricity production from coal sources

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.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
208
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

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  1. Produced by

    International Energy Agency

    IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

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Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Argentina20240.92percent
Australia202445.96percent
Austria20242.38percent
Belgium20242.83percent
Brazil20241.96percent
Canada20242.93percent
Chile202414.76percent
Colombia202412.42percent
Czechia202436.29percent
Denmark20244.96percent

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