Environment · Arab World
Yearly data from 1990 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Arab World's electricity production from coal sources (% of total) was 1.93% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.47 percentage points from 1.45% in 2014.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.93% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 2.05% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.45% | 2014 |
| Highest | 2.42% | 2001 |
| Lowest | 0.6% | 1992 |
| Average since 2015 | 1.86% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 0.89% | 1990 |
Over five years it is down 0.12 percentage points from 2.05% in 2019. Since 1990 it is up 1.04 percentage points from 0.89% in 1990.
In 2024, Arab World's electricity production from coal sources (% of total) fell 0.11 percentage points on 2023 (from 2.04% to 1.93%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.24 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.87 percentage points in 1995 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.23 percentage points in 1999. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.08 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 59% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Arab World | 1.93% | 2024 |
| World | 15.14% | 2025 |
The share of electricity production from coal sources of total electricity production. Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category.
Limitations: IEA occasionally revises its time series to reflect political changes. For example, the IEA has constructed historical energy statistics for countries of the former Soviet Union. In addition, energy statistics for other countries have undergone continuous changes in coverage or methodology in recent years as more detailed energy accounts have become available. Breaks in series are therefore unavoidable.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.
| Year | Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.93 |
| 2023 | 2.04 |
| 2022 | 2.13 |
| 2021 | 2.29 |
| 2020 | 2.13 |
| 2019 | 2.05 |
| 2018 | 1.67 |
| 2017 | 1.42 |
| 2016 | 1.44 |
| 2015 | 1.49 |
| 2014 | 1.45 |
| 2013 | 1.18 |
| 2012 | 1.22 |
| 2011 | 1.29 |
| 2010 | 1.23 |
| 2009 | 1.38 |
| 2008 | 1.55 |
| 2007 | 1.77 |
| 2006 | 1.95 |
| 2005 | 2.05 |
| 2004 | 2.19 |
| 2003 | 2.18 |
| 2002 | 2.25 |
| 2001 | 2.42 |
| 2000 | 1.93 |
| 1999 | 1.62 |
| 1998 | 1.85 |
| 1997 | 1.71 |
| 1996 | 1.69 |
| 1995 | 1.78 |
| 1994 | 0.918 |
| 1993 | 0.8374 |
| 1992 | 0.6 |
| 1991 | 0.7298 |
| 1990 | 0.8872 |
Every indicator for Arab World is on the Arab World data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.COAL.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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