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- BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2016, page 33
- Release date
- June 2016
- Region
- Worldwide
- Survey time period
- 2015
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Countries with the largest coal consumption worldwide in 2015 (in million metric tons oil equivalent)
| Consumption in million metric tons of oil equivalent | |
|---|---|
| China | 1,920.4 |
| United States | 396.3 |
| India | 407.2 |
| Japan | 119.4 |
| South Africa | 85 |
| Russia | 88.7 |
| South Korea | 84.5 |
| Germany | 78.3 |
| Indonesia | 80.3 |
| Poland | 49.8 |
| Australia | 46.6 |
| Taiwan | 37.8 |
| Kazakhstan | 32.6 |
| Ukraine | 29.2 |
| United Kingdom | 23.4 |
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This statistic shows the coal consumption of the leading coal-consuming countries worldwide in 2015. In that year, the United Kingdom's consumption of coal amounted to approximately 23.4 million metric tons oil equivalent.
Supplementary notes
According to the source, the data includes commercial solid fuels only, i.e. bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coal), and lignite and brown (sub-bituminous) coal, and other commercial solid fuels. Excludes coal converted to liquid or gaseous fuels, but includes coal consumed in transformation processes.