Coal Share of Electricity Generation

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: coal-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Coal Share of Electricity Generation: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	191	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	191	0
Coal (% of generation)coal_shareHeadline	The headline figure: Coal (% of electricity generated).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.000110 share it98.251Botswanamiddle 0.000	82	0
Fossil fuels (% of generation)fossil_shareMeasure	Share of the electricity generated that came from coal, gas and other fossil fuels such as oil and diesel, in per cent.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.0007 share it100.0004 share itmiddle 64.615	180	0
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasure	Total electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.010Montserrat10,025.008Chinamiddle 14.770	186	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Not in this dataset · 24 places this site covers

Ember gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraAnguillaBermudaChannel IslandsCuraçaoEl SalvadorGibraltarIsle of ManLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSwitzerlandTimor-LesteTuvaluVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Ember

   ember-energy.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Coal Share of Electricity Generation 2024

   release_generation_yearly_global.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   25 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as coal-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/coal-electricity

From Ember’s Yearly Electricity Data, the same public download its own data explorer offers. The percentages are Ember’s own, not recomputed here; where Ember prints no coal row for a country, the country is left out rather than shown as zero.

• Charted

  Coal Share of Electricity Generation by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Energy
  • Environment & Sustainability

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