Coal Consumption by Country

Coal consumption by country measures the amount of coal consumed in each country, measured in million metric tons (Mmt) per year. The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. The table covers 137 countries with a reported 2024 value and includes data from 2019 to 2024. The world total stood at 8,816.0 Mmt in 2024, up from 8,608.4 Mmt in 2023.

The map highlights where coal consumption is most concentrated in 2024; the table below holds the full 2019-2024 series. This is not just a ranking — the paragraphs below explain what the numbers reveal that the table alone does not.

Coal Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2024 (Mmt)
1	China CN	4,947.28
2	India IN	1,243.86
3	United States US	372.8
4	Indonesia ID	296.54
5	Russia RU	270.29
6	Japan JP	167.86
7	South Africa ZA	167.22
8	Germany DE	120.57
9	Türkiye TR	119.21
10	South Korea KR	114.54
11	Vietnam VN	93.91
12	Australia AU	92.4
13	Poland PL	91.43
14	Kazakhstan KZ	81.48
15	Taiwan TW	56.98
16	Philippines PH	45.86
17	Thailand TH	44.38
18	Malaysia MY	42.3
19	Serbia RS	35.08
20	Czech Republic CZ	27.85
21	North Korea KP	23.01
22	Brazil BR	22.85
23	Ukraine UA	22.78
24	Pakistan PK	22.63
25	Canada CA	17.83
26	Laos LA	17.58
27	Bangladesh BD	16.75
28	Bulgaria BG	15.26
29	Mexico MX	14.53
30	Colombia CO	13
31	Romania RO	12.75
32	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	11.86
33	Netherlands NL	10.71
34	Morocco MA	9.72
35	Mongolia MN	9.49
36	Uzbekistan UZ	8.84
37	France FR	8.65
38	Kosovo XK	8.07
39	Greece GR	6.7
40	Cambodia KH	6.13
41	Chile CL	5.39
42	Zimbabwe ZW	5.21
43	Hong Kong HK	4.75
44	North Macedonia MK	4.46
45	Egypt EG	4.46
46	Israel IL	4.43
47	Hungary HU	4.1
48	Spain ES	3.6
49	Italy IT	3.54
50	United Arab Emirates AE	3.33
51	Kyrgyzstan KG	3.3
52	Belgium BE	3.1
53	Dominican Republic DO	2.91
54	Slovakia SK	2.82
55	Slovenia SI	2.68
56	Myanmar MM	2.52
57	New Zealand NZ	2.46
58	Austria AT	2.38
59	Tajikistan TJ	2.35
60	Sweden SE	2.28
61	United Kingdom GB	2.27
62	Iran IR	2.12
63	Zambia ZM	2.08
64	Finland FI	1.89
65	Ethiopia ET	1.82
66	Kenya KE	1.77
67	Botswana BW	1.56
68	Guatemala GT	1.46
69	Montenegro ME	1.41
70	Nepal NP	1.38
71	Brunei BN	1.31
72	Nigeria NG	1.27
73	Argentina AR	1.05
74	Singapore SG	0.98
75	Peru PE	0.87
76	Tanzania TZ	0.86
77	Puerto Rico PR	0.86
78	Sri Lanka LK	0.83
79	Mauritius MU	0.78
80	Belarus BY	0.77
81	Denmark DK	0.76
82	Panama PA	0.74
83	Norway NO	0.67
84	Madagascar MG	0.47
85	Ireland IE	0.45
86	Yemen YE	0.38
87	New Caledonia NC	0.33
88	Albania AL	0.3
89	Afghanistan AF	0.28
90	Georgia GE	0.28
91	Croatia HR	0.24
92	Bhutan BT	0.23
93	DR Congo CD	0.22
94	Eswatini SZ	0.2
95	Niger NE	0.19
96	Lebanon LB	0.18
97	Jordan JO	0.17
98	Benin BJ	0.17
99	Saudi Arabia SA	0.13
100	Lithuania LT	0.13
101	Iceland IS	0.12
102	Switzerland CH	0.11
103	Kuwait KW	0.1
104	Rwanda RW	0.09
105	Moldova MD	0.08
106	Togo TG	0.08
107	Malawi MW	0.08
108	Senegal SN	0.07
109	Ghana GH	0.05
110	Jamaica JM	0.04
111	Oman OM	0.03
112	Namibia NA	0.03
113	Honduras HN	0.03
114	Luxembourg LU	0.03
115	Armenia AM	0.03
116	Cyprus CY	0.02
117	Syria SY	0.02
118	Bolivia BO	0.02
119	Azerbaijan AZ	0.02
120	Ecuador EC	0.02
121	Latvia LV	0.02
122	Algeria DZ	0.01
123	Venezuela VE	0.01
124	Uruguay UY	0.01
125	Estonia EE	0
126	Portugal PT	0
127	Paraguay PY	0
128	Costa Rica CR	0
129	Cuba CU	0
130	Fiji FJ	0
131	Bermuda BM	0
132	Burundi BI	0
133	Lesotho LS	0
134	Malta MT	0
135	Mozambique MZ	0
136	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0
137	Tunisia TN	0

Analysis: China alone accounted for about 56 percent of the world total in 2024, and China and India together for about 70 percent. The top three accounted for about 74 percent, the top five for about 81 percent, and the top ten for about 89 percent. China's coal consumption was about 4.0 times that of India, the second-largest consumer — a gap that explains much of the global structure.

Who Leads Coal Consumption?

Data: China (4,947.3 Mmt) was the largest consumer in 2024, ahead of India (1,243.9 Mmt). The next largest were the United States (372.8 Mmt), Indonesia (296.5 Mmt), Russia (270.3 Mmt), Japan (167.9 Mmt) and South Africa (167.2 Mmt). Analysis: The five largest consumers — China, India, the United States, Indonesia and Russia — accounted for about 81 percent of the reported world total. This concentration means that changes in a small number of major consumers have a large effect on the global total.

Where Coal Is Concentrated

The ten largest consumers accounted for about 89 percent of the reported world total in 2024. In Asia, China and India dominate consumption, followed by countries such as Indonesia, Japan and South Korea. In Europe, Russia and Germany were among the largest consumers, while the United States was the largest consumer in North America. Coal remains a major fuel for power generation and industry, so consumption is concentrated in economies with large electricity, industrial and steel sectors.

What Changed Most Recently? (2023-2024)

Analysis: China saw the largest increase, rising from 4,757.0 to 4,947.3 Mmt (up 190.3 Mmt, about 4.0 percent). India (+36.672 Mmt) and Russia (+27.626 Mmt) also recorded substantial increases. The sharpest decline among the major consumers was in the United States, where consumption fell from 386.4 to 372.8 Mmt (down 13.567 Mmt). Overall, the reported world total rose by 207.6 Mmt, or about 2.4 percent, to 8,816.0 Mmt.

How Has Coal Evolved Since 2019?

The reported world total was 7,846.6 Mmt in 2019, 8,608.4 Mmt in 2023 and 8,816.0 Mmt in 2024. For perspective, China's consumption increased from 4,085.7 to 4,947.3 Mmt, while India's rose from 971.2 to 1,243.9 Mmt. These changes show that the world's largest consumers have remained dominant while also increasing their coal use over the period.

Coal in Context

Its consumption is concentrated in a relatively small number of large economies, which means changes in these markets can strongly influence global coal demand and energy trade.

Coal Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	China	4,085.66	4,116.58	4,290.43	4,325.39	4,756.96	4,947.28
2	India	971.16	935.41	955.7	1,072.04	1,207.19	1,243.86
3	United States	532.1	432.45	495.03	467.69	386.37	372.8
4	Indonesia	138.42	131.89	150.12	240.59	277.67	296.54
5	Russia	220.1	200.52	238.94	274.85	242.67	270.29
6	Japan	187.35	184.22	183.14	187.68	169.88	167.86
7	South Africa	189.59	188.13	171.73	174.4	173.33	167.22
8	Germany	171.3	138.67	164.62	177.64	131.41	120.57
9	Türkiye	124.44	103.18	109.6	118.38	119.39	119.21
10	South Korea	119.66	111.44	111.92	109.94	121.12	114.54
11	Vietnam	82.5	85.67	82.16	82.06	91.21	93.91
12	Australia	101.61	96.99	99.72	99.34	93.64	92.4
13	Poland	119.28	109.58	116.37	121.72	97.92	91.43
14	Kazakhstan	72.78	72.23	61.72	78.99	83.77	81.48
15	Taiwan	64.37	63.44	65.18	61.09	59.31	56.98
16	Philippines	33.12	32.85	35.1	37.04	42.79	45.86
17	Thailand	34.31	35.16	34.2	36.01	42.35	44.38
18	Malaysia	33.44	34.08	32.86	30.77	34.21	42.3
19	Serbia	38.9	40.9	37.76	37.04	36.94	35.08
20	Czech Republic	41.7	34.73	35.73	38.23	31.63	27.85
21	North Korea	27.23	25.58	21.05	21.65	21.93	23.01
22	Brazil	24.24	21.81	25.68	22.04	21.83	22.85
23	Ukraine	44.24	38.76	40.88	23.35	21.53	22.78
24	Pakistan	24.95	25.04	26.54	33.92	29.88	22.63
25	Canada	25.48	19.84	21.93	15.24	17.17	17.83
26	Laos	14.73	12.77	13.33	13.69	15.94	17.58
27	Bangladesh	5.78	6.78	7.79	7.47	14.03	16.75
28	Bulgaria	28.86	22.88	29.13	35.9	20.4	15.26
29	Mexico	18.25	14.59	11.83	16.99	13.77	14.53
30	Colombia	11.42	10.72	11.05	11.22	9.69	13
31	Romania	22.38	15.97	18.72	18.77	15.19	12.75
32	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.11	7.29	8.11	14.29	11.93	11.86
33	Netherlands	15.07	8.42	13.34	8.82	11.41	10.71
34	Morocco	8.91	9.32	11.44	11.82	10.1	9.72
35	Mongolia	7.98	8.24	7.79	5.82	8.92	9.49
36	Uzbekistan	5.18	5.67	6.12	7.4	8.94	8.84
37	France	10.68	8.28	9.41	9.42	9.75	8.65
38	Kosovo	8.05	8.27	8.33	8.93	6.93	8.07
39	Greece	26.94	14.31	12.34	13.99	10.09	6.7
40	Cambodia	2.51	2.36	2.66	2.21	4.38	6.13
41	Chile	12.4	10.8	12.03	8.15	7.74	5.39
42	Zimbabwe	2.48	2.14	2.05	4.34	3.35	5.21
43	Hong Kong	9.8	5.22	5.79	6.22	5.57	4.75
44	North Macedonia	5.98	5.21	4.38	5.78	5.34	4.46
45	Egypt	3.94	2.05	3.26	2.79	3.03	4.46
46	Israel	5.9	5.09	5.88	6.48	5.3	4.43
47	Hungary	8.3	7.46	6.21	5.84	4.54	4.1
48	Spain	7.95	4.52	4.34	6.7	5.95	3.6
49	Italy	10.37	7.73	7.25	11.54	10.85	3.54
50	United Arab Emirates	1.93	2.56	2.43	3.1	5.37	3.33
51	Kyrgyzstan	2.14	1.78	1.36	3.35	4.21	3.3
52	Belgium	3.66	2.95	3.17	3.22	2.79	3.1
53	Dominican Republic	1.93	1.93	2.07	2.19	2.35	2.91
54	Slovakia	5.18	4.27	4.74	4.29	4.39	2.82
55	Slovenia	3.48	3.46	3.17	2.53	2.29	2.68
56	Myanmar	2.19	2.18	2.3	1.45	0.88	2.52
57	New Zealand	2.67	2.58	3.14	2.04	2.29	2.46
58	Austria	3.19	2.92	2.85	2.81	3.05	2.38
59	Tajikistan	2.03	2.14	2.2	2.24	2.12	2.35
60	Sweden	3.82	3	2.16	2.1	1.98	2.28
61	United Kingdom	7.98	7.08	7.28	6.07	4.73	2.27
62	Iran	1.52	1.52	1.44	1.72	1.77	2.12
63	Zambia	1.06	1.18	1.1	0.82	2.08	2.08
64	Finland	3.56	2.73	3.06	3.2	2.89	1.89
65	Ethiopia	0.6	0.53	0.46	0.66	1.61	1.82
66	Kenya	0.59	0.84	0.95	1.17	1.45	1.77
67	Botswana	1.33	1.23	1.4	2.29	1.35	1.56
68	Guatemala	2.04	2.28	2.32	1.3	1.01	1.46
69	Montenegro	1.49	1.59	1.45	1.52	1.66	1.41
70	Nepal	0.68	0.81	0.53	1.08	1.07	1.38
71	Brunei	0.34	1.2	1.3	1.2	0.84	1.31
72	Nigeria	2.72	2.35	2.51	3.04	1.32	1.27
73	Argentina	1.57	1.77	2.72	2.1	1.62	1.05
74	Singapore	0.74	0.7	0.75	0.78	1.14	0.98
75	Peru	0.41	0.29	0.24	0.71	0.97	0.87
76	Tanzania	0.55	0.58	0.56	0.8	0.74	0.86
77	Puerto Rico	1.57	1.36	1.28	1.3	1.12	0.86
78	Sri Lanka	2.21	2.24	2.47	2.08	2.32	0.83
79	Mauritius	0.66	0.66	0.74	0.58	0.65	0.78
80	Belarus	0.31	0.24	0.21	0.77	0.66	0.77
81	Denmark	1.58	1.24	1.83	1.78	1.13	0.76
82	Panama	0.79	0.97	0.97	0.84	0.86	0.74
83	Norway	0.84	0.87	0.92	0.82	0.74	0.67
84	Madagascar	0.48	0.15	0.43	0.51	0.47	0.47
85	Ireland	0.24	0.68	1.14	1.32	1.34	0.45
86	Yemen	0.03	0	0	0.17	0.03	0.38
87	New Caledonia	1.2	1.15	0.94	1.01	1	0.33
88	Albania	0.22	0.24	0.37	0.39	0.26	0.3
89	Afghanistan	1.21	1	1.67	1.54	0.5	0.28
90	Georgia	0.25	0.27	0.26	0.38	0.29	0.28
91	Croatia	0.69	0.57	0.67	0.67	0.57	0.24
92	Bhutan	0.2	0.19	0.23	0.22	0	0.23
93	DR Congo	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.24	0.22
94	Eswatini	0.16	0.17	0.22	0.12	0.2	0.2
95	Niger	0.23	0.24	0.22	0.46	0.43	0.19
96	Lebanon	0.18	0.2	0.17	0.21	0.16	0.18
97	Jordan	0.1	0.2	0.17	0.48	0.27	0.17
98	Benin	0.12	0.08	0.16	0.05	0.16	0.17
99	Saudi Arabia	0.11	0.07	0.08	0.12	0.06	0.13
100	Lithuania	0.26	0.2	0.23	0.25	0.15	0.13
101	Iceland	0.14	0.12	0.14	0.17	0.13	0.12
102	Switzerland	0.12	0.12	0.14	0.15	0.11	0.11
103	Kuwait	0.26	0.06	0.11	0.13	0.05	0.1
104	Rwanda	0	0	0	0.04	0.12	0.09
105	Moldova	0.15	0.13	0.13	0.12	0.09	0.08
106	Togo	0.31	0.25	0.2	0.09	0.16	0.08
107	Malawi	0.09	0.07	0.07	0.05	0	0.08
108	Senegal	0.89	0.89	0.95	0.5	0.13	0.07
109	Ghana	0.07	0.05	0.1	0.09	0.05	0.05
110	Jamaica	0.1	0.08	0.1	0.07	0.11	0.04
111	Oman	0.07	0.12	0.06	0.03	0.08	0.03
112	Namibia	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.03
113	Honduras	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.19	0.14	0.03
114	Luxembourg	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.03	0.03
115	Armenia	0	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03
116	Cyprus	0	0	0	0.05	0.05	0.02
117	Syria	0.01	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.01	0.02
118	Bolivia	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.02
119	Azerbaijan	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.06	0.01	0.02
120	Ecuador	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02
121	Latvia	0.07	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02
122	Algeria	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0	0.01
123	Venezuela	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.08	0.08	0.01
124	Uruguay	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01
125	Estonia	0.02	0	0.01	0	0	0
126	Portugal	2.11	0.95	0.32	0	0	0
127	Paraguay	0	0	0	0	0	0
128	Costa Rica	0	0	0	0.03	0.02	0
129	Cuba	0	0	0	0	0	0
130	Fiji	0	0	0	0	0	0
131	Bermuda	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Burundi	0	0	0	0	0	0
133	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0.08	0
134	Malta	0	0	0	0	0	0
135	Mozambique	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.01	0.01	0
136	Trinidad and Tobago	0.01	0	0	0	0	0
137	Tunisia	0	0	0	0	0	0

Methodology

The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. Values represent annual coal consumption in million metric tons (Mmt). Where no value is available, the cell is left empty. A value of 0 indicates that the source reports zero. The sum of the countries listed on this page may not equal the reported world total because the country-level data presented here do not necessarily represent the complete set of values used for the world total. This page covers coal consumption only and does not include other coal types, which are reported separately in the source.