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Coal power by country

What share of electricity comes from coal?

Of the 191 countries compared in 2024, 110 countries shared the lowest reading, 0.000%, and Botswana had the highest reading, 98.251%. In the middle country the figure was 0.000%.

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Coal power · 2024

Context statistic

110 countries share the lowest value, 0.000% — no single country is named first.

012024 · values only

Who leads

The three countries at the lowest end of 191 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.

Lowest in 2024 · shared

110 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000%

No single country is named first: picking one from a shared value would be a choice the data does not make.

Highest in 2024

  1. Botswana98.251%
  2. Kosovo91.259%
  3. Mongolia84.694%

Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.

Lowest on each continent

02Every measured country

Coal power on a map

Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.

All regions

Darker is a lower value — the better end.

  • 17.895–98.251%
  • 0.669–17.793%
  • 0.000–0.481%
  • No reading in 2024 (10 measured in an earlier edition)
  • Africa

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 50 measured · 55 members

    38 share 0.000%

    Botswana98.251%

    Lowest and highest reading in Africa.

  • Americas

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 39 measured · 48 members

    27 share 0.000%

    Dominican Republic29.963%

    Lowest and highest reading in Americas.

  • Oceania

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 14 measured · 21 members

    11 share 0.000%

    Australia45.210%

    Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.

  • Europe

    1.619%

    the middle country, of 38 measured · 49 members

    13 share 0.000%

    Kosovo91.259%

    Lowest and highest reading in Europe.

  • Asia

    5.016%

    the middle country, of 50 measured · 52 members

    21 share 0.000%

    Mongolia84.694%

    Lowest and highest reading in Asia.

22 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
  • Caribbean

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 17 measured · 24 members

    15 share 0.000%

    Dominican Republic29.963%

    Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.

  • Eastern Africa

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members

    12 share 0.000%

    Zimbabwe42.885%

    Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.

  • Middle Africa

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members

    7 share 0.000%

    7 share 0.000%

    Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.

  • Northern Africa

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members

    5 share 0.000%

    Morocco61.745%

    Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.

  • Northern Europe

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members

    6 share 0.000%

    Denmark4.972%

    Lowest and highest reading in Northern Europe.

  • Polynesia

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members

    5 share 0.000%

    5 share 0.000%

    Lowest and highest reading in Polynesia.

  • South America

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 12 measured · 12 members

    8 share 0.000%

    Chile15.301%

    Lowest and highest reading in South America.

  • Western Africa

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members

    14 share 0.000%

    Niger17.895%

    Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.

  • Western Asia

    0.000%

    the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members

    16 share 0.000%

    Türkiye35.554%

    Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.

  • Western Europe

    0.091%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members

    3 share 0.000%

    Germany21.620%

    Lowest and highest reading in Western Europe.

  • Central America

    0.481%

    the middle country, of 7 measured · 8 members

    3 share 0.000%

    Guatemala15.833%

    Lowest and highest reading in Central America.

  • Southern Asia

    3.030%

    the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members

    3 share 0.000%

    India74.582%

    Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.

  • Southern Europe

    5.729%

    the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members

    3 share 0.000%

    Kosovo91.259%

    Lowest and highest reading in Southern Europe.

  • Central Asia

    6.994%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members

    Turkmenistan0.000%

    Kazakhstan54.029%

    Lowest and highest reading in Central Asia.

  • Eastern Europe

    15.098%

    the middle country, of 9 measured · 10 members

    Moldova0.000%

    Poland54.331%

    Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.

  • South-eastern Asia

    32.835%

    the middle country, of 10 measured · 11 members

    Singapore0.957%

    Indonesia68.423%

    Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.

  • Eastern Asia

    33.857%

    the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members

    Macau0.000%

    Mongolia84.694%

    Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Asia.

  • Australia and New Zealand

    2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.

    New Zealand2.727%

    Australia45.210%

    Lowest and highest reading in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Melanesia

    4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands.

    3 share 0.000%

    New Caledonia36.538%

    Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.

  • Micronesia

    3 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Guam, Kiribati, Nauru.

    3 share 0.000%

    3 share 0.000%

    Lowest and highest reading in Micronesia.

  • Northern America

    3 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, Greenland, United States.

    Greenland0.000%

    United States14.852%

    Lowest and highest reading in Northern America.

  • Southern Africa

    4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, South Africa.

    Namibia2.439%

    Botswana98.251%

    Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.

03The whole field at once

The spread

191 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 0.000%; a quarter are above 13.840%, and a quarter below 0.000%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.

0%20%40%60%80%Africa50 comparedAlgeria: 0.000%Angola: 0.000%Benin: 0.000%Burkina Faso: 0.000%Burundi: 0.000%Cabo Verde: 0.000%Cameroon: 0.000%Chad: 0.000%Côte d’Ivoire: 0.000%Djibouti: 0.000%DR Congo: 0.000%Egypt: 0.000%Equatorial Guinea: 0.000%Eritrea: 0.000%Ethiopia: 0.000%Gabon: 0.000%Gambia: 0.000%Ghana: 0.000%Guinea: 0.000%Guinea-Bissau: 0.000%Kenya: 0.000%Liberia: 0.000%Libya: 0.000%Malawi: 0.000%Mali: 0.000%Mauritania: 0.000%Mozambique: 0.000%Nigeria: 0.000%Republic of the Congo: 0.000%Seychelles: 0.000%Sierra Leone: 0.000%Somalia: 0.000%Sudan: 0.000%Tanzania: 0.000%Togo: 0.000%Tunisia: 0.000%Uganda: 0.000%South Sudan: 0.000%Senegal: 1.311%Namibia: 2.439%Eswatini: 3.279%Zambia: 10.801%Rwanda: 15.044%Niger: 17.895%Madagascar: 20.576%Mauritius: 39.296%Zimbabwe: 42.885%Morocco: 61.745%South Africa: 83.553%Botswana: 98.251%Algeria 0.000%Botswana 98.251%Americas39 comparedAntigua and Barbuda: 0.000%Aruba: 0.000%Bahamas: 0.000%Barbados: 0.000%Belize: 0.000%Bolivia: 0.000%Cayman Islands: 0.000%Costa Rica: 0.000%Cuba: 0.000%Ecuador: 0.000%Greenland: 0.000%Grenada: 0.000%Guyana: 0.000%Haiti: 0.000%Jamaica: 0.000%Montserrat: 0.000%Nicaragua: 0.000%Paraguay: 0.000%Peru: 0.000%Saint Kitts and Nevis: 0.000%Saint Lucia: 0.000%Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 0.000%Suriname: 0.000%Trinidad and Tobago: 0.000%Turks and Caicos Islands: 0.000%Uruguay: 0.000%Venezuela: 0.000%Honduras: 0.481%Argentina: 0.859%Brazil: 2.174%Mexico: 3.488%Panama: 3.723%Canada: 3.948%Colombia: 12.576%United States: 14.852%Chile: 15.301%Guatemala: 15.833%Puerto Rico: 16.000%Dominican Republic: 29.963%Antigua and Barbuda 0.000% · Dominican Republic 29.963%Asia50 comparedArmenia: 0.000%Azerbaijan: 0.000%Bahrain: 0.000%Bhutan: 0.000%Cyprus: 0.000%Georgia: 0.000%Iraq: 0.000%Jordan: 0.000%Kuwait: 0.000%Lebanon: 0.000%Macau: 0.000%Maldives: 0.000%Nepal: 0.000%Oman: 0.000%Palestine: 0.000%Qatar: 0.000%Saudi Arabia: 0.000%Syria: 0.000%Turkmenistan: 0.000%United Arab Emirates: 0.000%Yemen: 0.000%Iran: 0.184%Singapore: 0.957%Afghanistan: 3.030%Tajikistan: 4.505%Myanmar: 5.527%Uzbekistan: 6.994%Kyrgyzstan: 9.702%Pakistan: 13.377%Israel: 14.303%Thailand: 16.670%Brunei: 19.784%Bangladesh: 19.943%Laos: 23.284%South Korea: 30.506%Japan: 32.185%Sri Lanka: 33.280%Hong Kong: 33.654%North Korea: 34.059%Türkiye: 35.554%Taiwan: 40.068%Malaysia: 42.386%Vietnam: 50.323%Kazakhstan: 54.029%China: 58.218%Cambodia: 60.917%Philippines: 63.912%Indonesia: 68.423%India: 74.582%Mongolia: 84.694%Armenia 0.000%Mongolia 84.694%Europe38 comparedAlbania: 0.000%Austria: 0.000%Belgium: 0.000%Estonia: 0.000%Iceland: 0.000%Latvia: 0.000%Lithuania: 0.000%Luxembourg: 0.000%Malta: 0.000%Moldova: 0.000%Norway: 0.000%Portugal: 0.000%Sweden: 0.000%Belarus: 0.044%France: 0.181%United Kingdom: 0.669%Spain: 0.918%Finland: 1.007%Italy: 1.476%Slovakia: 1.762%Ireland: 2.027%Denmark: 4.972%Croatia: 5.235%Greece: 5.729%Netherlands: 6.106%Hungary: 6.426%Romania: 15.098%Russia: 17.793%Slovenia: 20.944%Germany: 21.620%Bulgaria: 22.887%Czechia: 36.415%North Macedonia: 37.401%Montenegro: 40.510%Poland: 54.331%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 59.324%Serbia: 62.933%Kosovo: 91.259%Albania 0.000%Kosovo 91.259%Oceania14 comparedAmerican Samoa: 0.000%Cook Islands: 0.000%Fiji: 0.000%French Polynesia: 0.000%Guam: 0.000%Kiribati: 0.000%Nauru: 0.000%Papua New Guinea: 0.000%Samoa: 0.000%Solomon Islands: 0.000%Tonga: 0.000%New Zealand: 2.727%New Caledonia: 36.538%Australia: 45.210%American Samoa 0.000%Australia 45.210%middle country 0.000%

04All 201 ever measured

Every country

In order, lowest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Most countries read zero, and zero does not mean clean: many small islands burn oil or diesel instead, which this share does not count. Read it beside the fossil-fuel column, which covers every fossil fuel.

The raw table

Showing 25 of 201 countries

  1. AlbaniaSouthern Europe0.000%
  2. AlgeriaNorthern Africa0.000%
  3. American SamoaPolynesia0.000%
  4. AngolaMiddle Africa0.000%
  5. Antigua and BarbudaCaribbean0.000%
  6. ArmeniaWestern Asia0.000%
  7. ArubaCaribbean0.000%
  8. AustriaWestern Europe0.000%
  9. AzerbaijanWestern Asia0.000%
  10. BahamasCaribbean0.000%
  11. BahrainWestern Asia0.000%
  12. BarbadosCaribbean0.000%
  13. BelgiumWestern Europe0.000%
  14. BelizeCentral America0.000%
  15. BeninWestern Africa0.000%
  16. BhutanSouthern Asia0.000%
  17. BoliviaSouth America0.000%
  18. Burkina FasoWestern Africa0.000%
  19. BurundiEastern Africa0.000%
  20. Cabo VerdeWestern Africa0.000%
  21. CameroonMiddle Africa0.000%
  22. Cayman IslandsCaribbean0.000%
  23. ChadMiddle Africa0.000%
  24. Cook IslandsPolynesia0.000%
  25. Costa RicaCentral America0.000%

Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.

052000–2024 · 25 editions

Over time

Each point is one year from 2000. Coal plants run for decades, so most lines move slowly; a steep fall usually means large plants closing or a new source — gas, hydro, nuclear, wind or solar — taking their place.

0%5%10%15%20%2000200420082012201620202024AsiaEuropeAfricaAmericasOceania
  • the middle country
  • the middle half of countries
  • the middle of the 188 countries measured every time
  • each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
YearCountriesMiddle countryMiddle halfMeasured every time
20241910.000%0.000% – 13.840%0.000%
20231990.000%0.000% – 10.926%0.000%
20222010.000%0.000% – 11.148%0.000%
20212010.000%0.000% – 12.077%0.000%
20202010.000%0.000% – 11.730%0.000%
20192010.000%0.000% – 12.964%0.000%
20182010.000%0.000% – 13.758%0.000%
20172010.000%0.000% – 12.552%0.000%
20162010.000%0.000% – 15.512%0.000%
20152010.000%0.000% – 15.598%0.000%
20142010.000%0.000% – 15.713%0.000%
20132010.000%0.000% – 15.001%0.000%
20122010.000%0.000% – 13.248%0.000%
20112000.000%0.000% – 13.809%0.000%
20101990.000%0.000% – 13.256%0.000%
20091990.000%0.000% – 13.840%0.000%
20081990.000%0.000% – 15.561%0.000%
20071990.000%0.000% – 15.805%0.000%
20061990.000%0.000% – 16.216%0.000%
20051990.000%0.000% – 14.305%0.000%
20041980.000%0.000% – 15.356%0.000%
20031980.000%0.000% – 13.963%0.000%
20021980.000%0.000% – 12.736%0.000%
20011980.000%0.000% – 11.612%0.000%
20001980.000%0.000% – 10.208%0.000%

062023 → 2024

Who rose and fell

The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.

Improved most

before → after
  1. Bulgaria29.266% → 22.887%−6.379
  2. Poland59.721% → 54.331%−5.390
  3. Greece9.381% → 5.729%−3.652
  4. Italy5.054% → 1.476%−3.578
  5. Kazakhstan57.443% → 54.029%−3.414

Worsened most

before → after
  1. Bangladesh10.613% → 19.943%+9.330
  2. Mauritius33.639% → 39.296%+5.657
  3. Kosovo87.224% → 91.259%+4.035
  4. Cambodia57.500% → 60.917%+3.417
  5. Vietnam46.914% → 50.323%+3.409

191 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024. The field changed from 199 to 191 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.

07Across every edition

Coal power in records

The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.

08The measure

About coal power

This is the share of a country’s electricity generation that came from coal. Coal is the most carbon- and pollution-intensive way to make electricity, so this share is the plainest measure of how far a power system still depends on it.

What the number is: Coal (% of electricity generated).

09Where it fits

Connections

Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.

All statistics

In the Country Index

Context, with no vote

This statistic is published in full under Environment & Sustainability and Energy, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.

Environment & SustainabilityEnergyWhich statistics vote, and why

Moves with

Where coal power is higher, these tend to be higher too.

Moves against

Where coal power is higher, these tend to be lower.

Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 308 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.

On the same subject

10Keep reading

Explore further

The countries at either end

More from Ember

11Questions

Coal power: questions and answers

Which country has the lowest coal power?

110 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000%, among the 191 compared in 2024, so no single country is named.

Which country has the highest coal power?

Botswana, at 98.251%, among the 191 countries compared in 2024.

How many countries does the Coal Share of Electricity Generation cover?

191 in 2024, and 201 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 191 to 201 between editions.

What is the world average coal power?

This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 191 compared in 2024, the figure was 0.000%.

Is this Ember’s own ranking?

No ranking is shown. Ember publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.

How often is the Coal Share of Electricity Generation published?

This site holds 25 editions, describing 2000 to 2024.

Where does the data come from, and can I download it?

From Ember, under CC BY 4.0. 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. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.

12Method

Sources, method and citation

Source

Coal Share of Electricity Generation — Ember

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.

Newest edition

Report year 2024Data year 2024

Cite the source as: Ember. Yearly Electricity Data. London: Ember (Ember Energy Research CIC).

Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.

The full 2024 table, row for row

How this page reads the numbers

  • No rank or position is shown: Ember publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
  • Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
  • A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
  • Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.

The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.

Cite this page

Nations Inquiry (2026). Coal power by country: Coal Share of Electricity Generation, data from Ember. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/coal-electricity

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