Coal consumption - Country rankings
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Coal consumption, thousand short tons, 2018 - Country rankings:
The average for 2018 based on 137 countries was 61132.05 thousand short tons.The highest value was in China: 4294385 thousand short tons and the lowest value was in Angola: 0 thousand short tons. The indicator is available from 1980 to 2018. 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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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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