Based on a comparison of 89 countries in 2023, Botswana ranked the highest in electricity production from coal sources as a percentage of total with 96.2% followed by Kosovo and Mongolia. On the other end of the scale was Latvia with < 0.001%, Nepal with < 0.001% and Belarus with 0.066%.
Average electricity production from coal sources as a percentage of total reached 16.2% in 2023 in the World according to World Bank / EIA. This is 0.398 % more than in the previous year.
Historically, average electricity production from coal sources as a percentage of total reached an all time high of 49.3% in 1963 and an all time low of 16.2% in 2023. The average annual growth amounted to 0.330 % since 1960.
Data for more countries are available at Electricity Production from Coal Sources (As % of Total) indicator page.
| Electricity Production from Coal Sources (As % of Total) | Unit | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | % | 75.1% | 64.9% | 62.7% | 70.2% | 60.4% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Botswana | % | 99.6% | 99.7% | 99.8% | 97.3% | 95.8% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| China | % | 68.0% | 66.5% | 65.0% | 63.5% | 63.0% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| India | % | 74.9% | 75.0% | 72.9% | 71.4% | 71.5% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Indonesia | % | 58.0% | 56.4% | 59.1% | 62.0% | 61.5% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Kazakhstan | % | 66.8% | 69.5% | 69.0% | 67.3% | 64.1% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Kosovo | % | 96.7% | 94.7% | 94.8% | 94.4% | 93.4% | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Macedonia | % | 60.5% | 50.8% | 59.8% | 49.3% | 39.5% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Malaysia | % | 43.7% | 45.3% | 42.8% | 51.1% | 47.9% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Mongolia | % | 91.3% | 88.8% | 84.8% | 84.4% | 84.3% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Morocco | % | 52.9% | 59.4% | 64.6% | 67.9% | 66.5% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Philippines | % | 49.6% | 52.1% | 54.6% | 57.2% | 58.7% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Poland | % | 78.3% | 78.2% | 73.5% | 69.2% | 72.3% | ||||||||||||||||
| Serbia | % | 71.7% | 67.1% | 68.2% | 69.8% | 62.3% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| South Africa | % | 88.7% | 88.3% | 87.0% | 87.1% | 84.8% | ... |
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