Coal consumption - Country rankings

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Coal consumption, thousand short tons, 2017 - Country rankings:

The average for 2017 was 44098.99 thousand short tons.The highest value was in China: 4210824 thousand short tons and the lowest value was in Angola: 0 thousand short tons. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Measure: thousand short tons; Source: The U.S. Energy Information Administration

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1. China

2. India

3. USA

4. Germany

5. Russia

6. Japan

7. South Africa

8. South Korea

9. Poland

10. Australia

11. Turkey

12. Indonesia

13. Kazakhstan

14. Taiwan

15. Vietnam

16. Czech Rep.

17. Ukraine

18. Serbia

19. Thailand

20. Greece

21. Canada

22. Bulgaria

23. Malaysia

24. Philippines

25. Romania

26. Brazil

27. Spain

28. Mexico

29. Italy

30. Netherlands

31. UK

32. France

33. Laos

34. Chile

35. Hong Kong

36. Pakistan

37. Hungary

38. Bosnia & Herz.

39. Mongolia

40. Israel

41. North Korea

42. Colombia

43. Morocco

44. Slovakia

45. Portugal

46. Macedonia

47. Uzbekistan

48. Finland

49. Slovenia

50. Belgium

51. Austria

52. UA Emirates

53. Egypt

54. Denmark

55. Zimbabwe

56. Sweden

57. Bangladesh

58. New Zealand

59. Kyrgyzstan

60. Sri Lanka

61. Afghanistan

62. Botswana

63. Guatemala

64. Cambodia

65. Ireland

66. Tajikistan

67. Montenegro

68. Iran

69. Argentina

70. N. Caledonia

71. Puerto Rico

72. Domin. Rep.

73. Norway

74. Singapore

75. Mauritius

76. Croatia

77. Senegal

78. Belarus

79. Peru

80. Ethiopia

81. Kenya

82. Burma

83. Georgia

84. Nepal

85. Madagascar

86. Tanzania

87. Yemen

88. Panama

89. Lithuania

90. Niger

91. Kuwait

92. Zambia

93. Moldova

94. Switzerland

95. Jordan

96. Togo

97. Swaziland

98. Venezuela

99. Iceland

100. Benin

101. Lebanon

102. Saudi Arabia

103. Jamaica

104. Nigeria

105. Albania

106. Malawi

107. Bhutan

108. Luxembourg

109. Latvia

110. Oman

111. Ghana

112. Estonia

113. Algeria

114. Honduras

115. Mozambique

116. DR Congo

117. Syria

118. Ecuador

119. Tr.&Tobago

120. Cyprus

121. Tunisia

122. Namibia

123. Azerbaijan

124. Armenia

125. Cuba

126. Uruguay

127. Angola

128. Ant.& Barb.

129. Aruba

130. Bahamas

131. Bahrain

132. Barbados

133. Belize

134. Bermuda

135. Bolivia

136. Brunei

137. Burkina Faso

138. Burundi

139. Cameroon

140. Cape Verde

141. C.A. Republic

142. Chad

143. Comoros

144. Djibouti

145. Dominica

146. El Salvador

147. Eq. Guinea

148. Eritrea

149. Faroe Isl.

150. Fiji

151. Gabon

152. Gambia

153. Gibraltar

154. Grenada

155. Guinea

156. G.-Bissau

157. Guyana

158. Haiti

159. Iraq

160. Ivory Coast

161. Kiribati

162. Lesotho

163. Liberia

164. Libya

165. Macao

166. Maldives

167. Mali

168. Malta

169. Mauritania

170. Micronesia

171. Montserrat

172. Nicaragua

173. Papua N.G.

174. Paraguay

175. Qatar

176. R. of Congo

177. Rwanda

178. Saint Lucia

179. St. Vincent & ...

180. Samoa

181. S.T.&Principe

182. Seychelles

183. Sierra Leone

184. Solomon Isl.

185. Somalia

186. Sudan

187. Suriname

188. Tonga

189. Turkmenistan

190. Tuvalu

191. Uganda

192. Vanuatu

Definition: Coal consumption includes anthracite, subanthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, lignite, brown coal, and oil shale. It also includes net imports of metallurgical coke.

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