Environment
Coal electricity
EG.ELC.COAL.ZS · %
Annual series published by the World Bank. The chart carries the trajectory, the table carries the year by year figures, and the definition at the foot of the page is the World Bank's own, quoted as it stands.
Countries compared
8 countries compared out of 142 available.
Latest known value: 1.76% for Italy in 2024, over a series running from 1990 to 2024 and 8 countries compared, from the highest (China, 61.34%) to the lowest (South Sudan, 0%).
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Year by year values
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| Italy | Spain | Netherlands | United States | China | South Sudan | Sierra Leone | Algeria | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.76% | 1.2% | 8.16% | 15.69% | ||||
| 2023 | 5.43% | 1.56% | 8.8% | 16.66% | 61.34% | |||
| 2022 | 8.52% | 2.97% | 14.31% | 20.32% | 61.72% | |||
| 2021 | 5.51% | 2.19% | 14.21% | 22.67% | 63% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2020 | 5.36% | 2.33% | 8.19% | 20.09% | 63.46% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2019 | 7.23% | 5.12% | 16.51% | 24.35% | 64.97% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2018 | 10.68% | 14.11% | 26.57% | 28.55% | 66.53% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2017 | 11.86% | 16.81% | 29.13% | 30.83% | 68.03% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2016 | 13.25% | 13.63% | 34.34% | 31.33% | 68.42% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2015 | 16.04% | 18.75% | 38.32% | 34.07% | 70.19% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2014 | 16.63% | 16.25% | 31.37% | 39.46% | 73% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2013 | 16.73% | 14.47% | 27.1% | 39.76% | 75.13% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2012 | 18.08% | 18.82% | 26.46% | 38.3% | 75.52% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2011 | 16.57% | 15.36% | 21.71% | 43.12% | 78.69% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2010 | 14.71% | 8.73% | 21.63% | 45.55% | 76.99% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2009 | 14.84% | 12.54% | 23.4% | 45.19% | 78.38% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2008 | 15.23% | 15.93% | 24.93% | 48.82% | 78.75% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2007 | 15.84% | 24.29% | 27.07% | 48.7% | 80.95% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2006 | 16.06% | 22.7% | 26.82% | 49.47% | 80.34% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2005 | 16.27% | 27.46% | 26.95% | 50.16% | 79.2% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2004 | 16.77% | 28.69% | 27.8% | 50.07% | 78.17% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2003 | 15.01% | 29.13% | 30.72% | 51.04% | 79.56% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2002 | 14.19% | 33.66% | 30.2% | 50.35% | 77.54% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2001 | 13.18% | 30.39% | 30.45% | 51.28% | 76.25% | 0% | 0% | |
| 2000 | 11.03% | 36.02% | 30.25% | 52.55% | 78.21% | 0% | 0% | |
| 1999 | 10.62% | 36.22% | 28.91% | 51.8% | 77.67% | 0% | ||
| 1998 | 10.71% | 32.36% | 32.46% | 52.38% | 75.64% | 0% | ||
| 1997 | 9.85% | 33.6% | 31.62% | 53.44% | 76.36% | 0% | ||
| 1996 | 10.36% | 31.34% | 33.31% | 52.35% | 76.2% | 0% | ||
| 1995 | 11.42% | 40.15% | 36.99% | 51.16% | 73.75% | 0% | ||
| 1994 | 9.9% | 38.69% | 33.81% | 52.19% | 74.79% | 0% | ||
| 1993 | 9.06% | 40.43% | 31.43% | 53.09% | 73.5% | 0% | ||
| 1992 | 11.05% | 41.04% | 32.64% | 52.91% | 75.03% | 0% | ||
| 1991 | 14.5% | 38.33% | 33.93% | 52.26% | 73.51% | 0% | ||
| 1990 | 16.51% | 39.93% | 38.21% | 52.81% | 71.04% | 0% |
World Bank definition
Electricity production from coal sources (% of total)
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.
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