Least developed countries: UN classification's electricity production from coal sources (% of total) was 13.78% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 12.24 percentage points from 1.54% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 13.78% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 7.5% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.54% | 2014 |
| Highest | 13.78% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 0.32% | 1999 |
| Average since 2015 | 7.9% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 0.71% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Least developed countries: UN classification's electricity production from coal sources (% of total) rose 3.11 percentage points on 2023 (from 10.67% to 13.78%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was +0.34 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.82 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 3.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.13 percentage points in 2023 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.33 percentage points in 2004. 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 0.79 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 74% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 14.53% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.52%, against 3.08% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
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| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Least developed countries: UN classification | 13.78% | 2024 |
| World | 15.14% | 2025 |
What this measures
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.
All 35 values
| Year | Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.78 |
| 2023 | 10.67 |
| 2022 | 7.54 |
| 2021 | 7.68 |
| 2020 | 7.73 |
| 2019 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 7.79 |
| 2017 | 7.44 |
| 2016 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 3.22 |
| 2014 |
Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 0% (2021)
- Algeria — 0% (2021)
- Bahrain — 0% (2023)
- Djibouti — 0% (2021)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 0% (2021)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 0.18% (2024)
- Iraq — 0% (2021)
- Israel — 9.32% (2025)
- Jordan — 14.42% (2024)
- Kuwait
More environment data for Least developed countries: UN classification
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 32.86% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 13.73% (2025)
- Rural population — 769.36 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 63.36% (2025)
- Urban population — 444.81 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 36.64% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 5.26 million (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
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Source
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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