Primary Energy Coal Consumption by Country

Coal consumption as a primary energy source measures the energy content of coal consumed in each country, expressed in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu) per year. The measure reflects coal consumed within each country, regardless of whether the coal was produced domestically or imported. The statistics are based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Statistics. The table covers 138 countries, with 138 reported 2024 values, and includes data from 2019 to 2024. The world total stood at 179.6540 quad Btu in 2024, up from 175.1026 quad Btu in 2023.

China (105.2976 quad Btu) accounted for well over half of global coal consumption in 2024, consuming nearly five times as much as India (21.8041 quad Btu). The United States (7.9122 quad Btu), Indonesia (5.9859 quad Btu) and Russia (5.6928 quad Btu) completed the top five. Empty means no reported value, not zero.

Primary Energy Coal Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2024 (quad Btu)
1	China CN	105.3
2	India IN	21.8
3	United States US	7.91
4	Indonesia ID	5.99
5	Russia RU	5.69
6	Japan JP	3.89
7	South Africa ZA	3.77
8	South Korea KR	2.77
9	Vietnam VN	2.24
10	Kazakhstan KZ	1.83
11	Türkiye TR	1.62
12	Germany DE	1.53
13	Australia AU	1.5
14	Poland PL	1.45
15	Taiwan TW	1.44
16	Philippines PH	0.97
17	Malaysia MY	0.95
18	Thailand TH	0.88
19	North Korea KP	0.56
20	Brazil BR	0.52
21	Ukraine UA	0.5
22	Pakistan PK	0.47
23	Czech Republic CZ	0.39
24	Colombia CO	0.35
25	Mexico MX	0.33
26	Bangladesh BD	0.33
27	Canada CA	0.32
28	Netherlands NL	0.25
29	Serbia RS	0.24
30	Morocco MA	0.23
31	Laos LA	0.23
32	France FR	0.22
33	Bosnia and Herzegovina BA	0.2
34	Mongolia MN	0.15
35	Uzbekistan UZ	0.13
36	Zimbabwe ZW	0.13
37	Hong Kong HK	0.12
38	Cambodia KH	0.12
39	Chile CL	0.11
40	Bulgaria BG	0.11
41	Israel IL	0.1
42	Romania RO	0.1
43	Egypt EG	0.1
44	Italy IT	0.09
45	Spain ES	0.09
46	United Arab Emirates AE	0.08
47	Belgium BE	0.08
48	Slovakia SK	0.07
49	Greece GR	0.07
50	Dominican Republic DO	0.07
51	Austria AT	0.06
52	Sweden SE	0.06
53	Kosovo XK	0.06
54	United Kingdom GB	0.06
55	Iran IR	0.06
56	Tajikistan TJ	0.05
57	Finland FI	0.05
58	Zambia ZM	0.05
59	Kyrgyzstan KG	0.05
60	New Zealand NZ	0.05
61	Kenya KE	0.04
62	Ethiopia ET	0.04
63	Guatemala GT	0.04
64	Botswana BW	0.03
65	Myanmar MM	0.03
66	Slovenia SI	0.03
67	Nigeria NG	0.03
68	Hungary HU	0.03
69	Argentina AR	0.03
70	Nepal NP	0.03
71	North Macedonia MK	0.03
72	Singapore SG	0.02
73	Tanzania TZ	0.02
74	Peru PE	0.02
75	Sri Lanka LK	0.02
76	Mauritius MU	0.02
77	Belarus BY	0.02
78	Denmark DK	0.02
79	Panama PA	0.02
80	Norway NO	0.02
81	Puerto Rico PR	0.02
82	Brunei BN	0.02
83	Montenegro ME	0.01
84	Ireland IE	0.01
85	Madagascar MG	0.01
86	Yemen YE	0.01
87	New Caledonia NC	0.01
88	Albania AL	0.01
89	Afghanistan AF	0.01
90	Croatia HR	0.01
91	Georgia GE	0.01
92	DR Congo CD	0.01
93	Lebanon LB	0
94	Eswatini SZ	0
95	Bhutan BT	0
96	Jordan JO	0
97	Benin BJ	0
98	Saudi Arabia SA	0
99	Lithuania LT	0
100	Iceland IS	0
101	Kuwait KW	0
102	Niger NE	0
103	Togo TG	0
104	Moldova MD	0
105	Malawi MW	0
106	Rwanda RW	0
107	Senegal SN	0
108	Switzerland CH	0
109	Ghana GH	0
110	Jamaica JM	0
111	Oman OM	0
112	Honduras HN	0
113	Namibia NA	0
114	Luxembourg LU	0
115	Armenia AM	0
116	Bolivia BO	0
117	Cyprus CY	0
118	Syria SY	0
119	Azerbaijan AZ	0
120	Ecuador EC	0
121	Latvia LV	0
122	Algeria DZ	0
123	Venezuela VE	0
124	Uruguay UY	0
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	Macau MO	0
135	Malta MT	0
136	Mozambique MZ	0
137	Trinidad and Tobago TT	0
138	Tunisia TN	0

China accounted for about 58.6% of the world total in 2024. The top two together held about 70.8%, the top three about 75.2%, the top five about 81.7%, and the top ten about 89.7%. Only about one-tenth of reported consumption came from countries outside the top ten.

Change from 2023 to 2024

China recorded the largest increase in absolute terms, rising from 101.3664 to 105.2976 quad Btu (+3.9312 quad Btu, about 3.9%). The world total rose from 175.1026 to 179.6540 quad Btu (+4.5514 quad Btu, about 2.6%), so China alone accounted for about 86% of the world increase. The largest decline among reported pairs was the United States, falling from 8.1708 to 7.9122 quad Btu (-0.2586 quad Btu, about 3.2%).

How consumption changed across major consumers

China (+3.9%), India (+2.9%), Indonesia (+10.3%) and Russia (+12.2%) all increased their coal consumption, while the United States declined by 3.2%. Russia recorded the fastest percentage growth among the top five, whereas China contributed the largest absolute increase.

2019 to 2024 in this series

Reported world values were 168.7005 quad Btu in 2019, 162.9169 quad Btu in 2020, 168.1373 quad Btu in 2021, 169.9660 quad Btu in 2022, 175.1026 quad Btu in 2023 and 179.6540 quad Btu in 2024. Consumption ended about 6.5% above the 2019 level, with 2024 marking the highest value in the six-year series.

Coal consumption in context

The leading coal consumers and producers overlap, but their rankings are not identical. China consumed 105.2976 quad Btu against coal production of 94.5603, while the United States produced 10.5788 and consumed 7.9122. The comparison highlights the difference between coal consumed within a country and coal produced there; the ranking on this page is based on consumption.

Primary Energy Coal Consumption by Country

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#	Country	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
1	China	94.2	94.34	96.17	95.66	101.37	105.3
2	India	17.82	17.18	17.57	18.94	21.2	21.8
3	United States	11.32	9.18	10.55	9.89	8.17	7.91
4	Indonesia	2.77	2.64	3.06	4.77	5.43	5.99
5	Russia	4.78	4.29	5.21	5.75	5.08	5.69
6	Japan	4.71	4.63	4.61	4.36	3.94	3.89
7	South Africa	4.12	4.09	3.75	3.86	3.87	3.77
8	South Korea	3.02	2.81	2.82	2.67	2.93	2.77
9	Vietnam	2.03	2.1	2.02	1.96	2.17	2.24
10	Kazakhstan	2	1.97	1.68	1.88	1.88	1.83
11	Türkiye	1.79	1.64	1.63	1.55	1.62	1.62
12	Germany	2.24	1.78	2.14	2.32	1.64	1.53
13	Australia	1.7	1.6	1.67	1.66	1.53	1.5
14	Poland	2.08	1.91	1.99	1.91	1.6	1.45
15	Taiwan	1.5	1.47	1.52	1.5	1.5	1.44
16	Philippines	0.73	0.72	0.77	0.79	0.91	0.97
17	Malaysia	0.72	0.74	0.71	0.7	0.78	0.95
18	Thailand	0.61	0.64	0.61	0.66	0.84	0.88
19	North Korea	0.7	0.66	0.54	0.53	0.53	0.56
20	Brazil	0.63	0.56	0.66	0.53	0.49	0.52
21	Ukraine	1.1	0.96	1.02	0.54	0.48	0.5
22	Pakistan	0.54	0.54	0.58	0.75	0.63	0.47
23	Czech Republic	0.61	0.52	0.54	0.55	0.44	0.39
24	Colombia	0.31	0.29	0.3	0.31	0.26	0.35
25	Mexico	0.44	0.36	0.28	0.39	0.32	0.33
26	Bangladesh	0.12	0.14	0.17	0.16	0.28	0.33
27	Canada	0.47	0.37	0.4	0.27	0.31	0.32
28	Netherlands	0.37	0.22	0.33	0.21	0.26	0.25
29	Serbia	0.31	0.32	0.3	0.26	0.26	0.24
30	Morocco	0.22	0.23	0.28	0.29	0.24	0.23
31	Laos	0.21	0.18	0.19	0.17	0.2	0.23
32	France	0.29	0.22	0.25	0.24	0.25	0.22
33	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.13	0.13	0.15	0.23	0.21	0.2
34	Mongolia	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.09	0.14	0.15
35	Uzbekistan	0.08	0.09	0.1	0.11	0.13	0.13
36	Zimbabwe	0.06	0.05	0.05	0.11	0.08	0.13
37	Hong Kong	0.25	0.13	0.15	0.16	0.14	0.12
38	Cambodia	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.04	0.08	0.12
39	Chile	0.27	0.24	0.27	0.17	0.16	0.11
40	Bulgaria	0.21	0.17	0.21	0.25	0.14	0.11
41	Israel	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.15	0.12	0.1
42	Romania	0.19	0.14	0.16	0.15	0.13	0.1
43	Egypt	0.09	0.05	0.08	0.06	0.07	0.1
44	Italy	0.28	0.21	0.2	0.3	0.28	0.09
45	Spain	0.16	0.1	0.1	0.16	0.14	0.09
46	United Arab Emirates	0.05	0.07	0.07	0.08	0.14	0.08
47	Belgium	0.1	0.08	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.08
48	Slovakia	0.11	0.09	0.11	0.1	0.1	0.07
49	Greece	0.14	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.11	0.07
50	Dominican Republic	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.07
51	Austria	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.08	0.06
52	Sweden	0.11	0.09	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.06
53	Kosovo	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.06
54	United Kingdom	0.22	0.2	0.2	0.16	0.12	0.06
55	Iran	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.05	0.05	0.06
56	Tajikistan	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.05
57	Finland	0.09	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.07	0.05
58	Zambia	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.05	0.05
59	Kyrgyzstan	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.05	0.07	0.05
60	New Zealand	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.05
61	Kenya	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.04	0.04
62	Ethiopia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.04	0.04
63	Guatemala	0.05	0.06	0.06	0.03	0.02	0.04
64	Botswana	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.05	0.03	0.03
65	Myanmar	0.05	0.05	0.05	0.03	0.01	0.03
66	Slovenia	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03
67	Nigeria	0.07	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.03	0.03
68	Hungary	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.03
69	Argentina	0.04	0.05	0.07	0.06	0.04	0.03
70	Nepal	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.03
71	North Macedonia	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.03
72	Singapore	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
73	Tanzania	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02
74	Peru	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02
75	Sri Lanka	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.05	0.06	0.02
76	Mauritius	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02
77	Belarus	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.02
78	Denmark	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.02
79	Panama	0.02	0.02	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02
80	Norway	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02
81	Puerto Rico	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.02
82	Brunei	0	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.02
83	Montenegro	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01
84	Ireland	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.03	0.01
85	Madagascar	0.01	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
86	Yemen	0	0	0	0	0	0.01
87	New Caledonia	0.03	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01
88	Albania	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
89	Afghanistan	0.03	0.02	0.03	0.03	0.01	0.01
90	Croatia	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01
91	Georgia	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
92	DR Congo	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.01
93	Lebanon	0	0	0	0	0	0
94	Eswatini	0	0	0.01	0	0	0
95	Bhutan	0	0	0	0	0	0
96	Jordan	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0
97	Benin	0	0	0	0	0	0
98	Saudi Arabia	0	0	0	0	0	0
99	Lithuania	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0	0
100	Iceland	0	0	0	0	0	0
101	Kuwait	0.01	0	0	0	0	0
102	Niger	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01	0
103	Togo	0.01	0.01	0	0	0	0
104	Moldova	0	0	0	0	0	0
105	Malawi	0	0	0	0	0	0
106	Rwanda	0	0	0	0	0	0
107	Senegal	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0	0
108	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0
109	Ghana	0	0	0	0	0	0
110	Jamaica	0	0	0	0	0	0
111	Oman	0	0	0	0	0	0
112	Honduras	0	0	0	0	0	0
113	Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0
114	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0
115	Armenia	0	0	0	0	0	0
116	Bolivia	0	0	0	0	0	0
117	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	0	0
118	Syria	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Azerbaijan	0	0	0	0	0	0
120	Ecuador	0	0	0	0	0	0
121	Latvia	0	0	0	0	0	0
122	Algeria	0	0	0	0	0	0
123	Venezuela	0	0	0	0	0	0
124	Uruguay	0	0	0	0	0	0
125	Estonia	0	0	0	0	0	0
126	Portugal	0.05	0.02	0.01	0	0	0
127	Paraguay	0	0	0	0	0	0
128	Costa Rica	0	0	0	0	0	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	0
134	Macau	0	0	0	0	0	0
135	Malta	0	0	0	0	0	0
136	Mozambique	0	0	0	0	0	0
137	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	0	0	0	0
138	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 primary energy consumption from coal in quadrillion British thermal units (quad Btu). 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 energy consumption only; other energy sources and production are reported separately in the source.