Major coal producers
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 423.
The reserve life is an estimate based only on current production levels and proved reserves level for the countries shown, and makes no assumptions of future production or even current production trends. Countries with annual production higher than 100 million tonnes are shown. For comparison, data for the European Union is also shown. Shares are based on data expressed in tonnes oil equivalent.
| Production of Coal by Country and year (million tonnes) | |||||||||||
| Country | Share | Reserve Life (years) | |||||||||
 China
| 1834.9 | 2122.6 | 2349.5 | 2528.6 | 2691.6 | 2802.0 | 2973.0 | 3235.0 | 3520.0 | 49.5% | |
 United States
| 972.3 | 1008.9 | 1026.5 | 1054.8 | 1040.2 | 1063.0 | 975.2 | 983.7 | 992.8 | 14.1% | |
 India
| 375.4 | 407.7 | 428.4 | 449.2 | 478.4 | 515.9 | 556.0 | 573.8 | 588.5 | 5.6% | |
 European Union
| 637.2 | 627.6 | 607.4 | 595.1 | 592.3 | 563.6 | 538.4 | 535.7 | 576.1 | 4.2% | |
 Australia
| 350.4 | 364.3 | 375.4 | 382.2 | 392.7 | 399.2 | 413.2 | 424.0 | 415.5 | 5.8% | |
 Russia
| 276.7 | 281.7 | 298.3 | 309.9 | 313.5 | 328.6 | 301.3 | 321.6 | 333.5 | 4.0% | |
 Indonesia
| 114.3 | 132.4 | 152.7 | 193.8 | 216.9 | 240.2 | 256.2 | 275.2 | 324.9 | 5.1% | |
 South Africa
| 237.9 | 243.4 | 244.4 | 244.8 | 247.7 | 252.6 | 250.6 | 254.3 | 255.1 | 3.6% | |
 Germany
| 204.9 | 207.8 | 202.8 | 197.1 | 201.9 | 192.4 | 183.7 | 182.3 | 188.6 | 1.1% | |
 Poland
| 163.8 | 162.4 | 159.5 | 156.1 | 145.9 | 144.0 | 135.2 | 133.2 | 139.2 | 1.4% | |
 Kazakhstan
| 84.9 | 86.9 | 86.6 | 96.2 | 97.8 | 111.1 | 100.9 | 110.9 | 115.9 | 1.5% | |
| World Total | 5,301.3 | 5,716.0 | 6,035.3 | 6,342.0 | 6,573.3 | 6,795.0 | 6,880.8 | 7,254.6 | 7,695.4 | 100% |
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