Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources

The share of electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources of total electricity production. Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. 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
Algeria202399.24percent
Argentina202352.84percent
Australia202366.08percent
Austria202313.70percent
Azerbaijan202392.76percent
Belgium202324.28percent
Bosnia and Herzegovina202356.90percent
Brazil20238.73percent
Bulgaria202334.67percent
Canada202319.67percent

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