THE GLOBAL INDEX #093
Coal production2021
Coal production expressed in terawatt-hours of energy, rather than tonnes of material.
China23,177.97 TWhTop 10
TWh · 2021Complete ranking
Download CSV ↓| Rank | Country / territory | Value (TWh) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | China | 23,177.97 | 2021 |
| 02 |  India | 3,716.61 | 2021 |
| 03 |  Indonesia | 3,522.28 | 2021 |
| 04 |  Australia | 3,402.83 | 2021 |
| 05 |  United States | 3,228.61 | 2021 |
| 06 |  Russia | 2,564.41 | 2021 |
| 07 |  South Africa | 1,536.75 | 2021 |
| 08 |  Kazakhstan | 533.34 | 2021 |
| 09 |  Colombia | 508.9 | 2021 |
| 10 |  Poland | 488.95 | 2021 |
| 11 |  Canada | 336.05 | 2021 |
| 12 |  Germany | 320.33 | 2021 |
| 13 |  Vietnam | 314.67 | 2021 |
| 14 |  Türkiye | 208.58 | 2021 |
| 15 |  Mongolia | 171.01 | 2021 |
| 16 |  Ukraine | 144.2 | 2021 |
| 17 |  Czechia | 122.45 | 2021 |
| 18 |  Serbia | 73.06 | 2021 |
| 19 |  Bulgaria | 54.9 | 2021 |
| 20 |  Pakistan | 50.62 | 2021 |
| 21 |  Thailand | 40.97 | 2021 |
| 22 |  Mexico | 38.21 | 2021 |
| 23 |  Romania | 34.98 | 2021 |
| 24 |  Brazil | 33.79 | 2021 |
| 25 |  Zimbabwe | 24.29 | 2021 |
| 26 |  New Zealand | 19.57 | 2021 |
| 27 |  Greece | 16.74 | 2021 |
| 28 |  Uzbekistan | 16.69 | 2021 |
| 29 |  Hungary | 8.99 | 2021 |
| 30 |  United Kingdom | 8.13 | 2021 |
| 31 |  South Korea | 4.94 | 2021 |
| 32 |  Japan | 4.55 | 2021 |
| 33 |  Venezuela | 1.43 | 2021 |
| 34 |  Spain | 0.49 | 2021 |
No matching countries.
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Source & definition
- Indicator definition
- Coal production expressed in terawatt-hours of energy, rather than tonnes of material.
- Unit
- TWh
- Source & definition
- Our World in Data · Energy ·
owid:coal_production
Original metadata
Measured in terawatt-hours.
{
"column": "coal_production",
"title": "Coal production",
"description": "Measured in terawatt-hours.",
"unit": "terawatt-hours (TWh)",
"source": "Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2025) [https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review/]; The Shift Data Portal - Energy production from fossil fuels (2019) [https://www.theshiftdataportal.org/]"
}