Coal share of electricity generation
RecordSTO-01M2KJ7XC3-BMVT0FP162-MBJPSK
Global · 2025
IEA projected coal share of electricity generation worldwide at less than 33% in 2025.
Coal share of electricity generation: every country and year, and how it is measured
What the source says
Renewables, collectively, will surpass coal-fired generation in 2025 and coal’s share will decline below 33% for the first time in the last 100 years.
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APA
International Energy Agency. (2025). Supply. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPSK
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- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Supply." 2025, https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPSK.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Supply." 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPSK.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2025coalmbjpsk, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Supply}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPSK}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Supply
- Type
- Report
- Published
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- Locator
- Renewables dominate as coal’s share continues to contract
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- CC by 4.0
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC3BMVT0FP162MBJPSK