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Coal production by region. This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2023.
The largest consumer and importer of coal in 2020 was China, which accounts for almost half the world's annual coal production, followed by India with about a tenth. Indonesia and Australia export the most, followed by Russia. [17] [18]
In 2012 coal production in Ukraine amounted to 85.946 million tonnes, up 4.8% from 2011. [113] Coal consumption that same year grew to 61.207 million tonnes, up 6.2% compared with 2011. [113] More than 90 percent of Ukraine's coal production comes from the Donets Basin. [114] The country's coal industry employs about 500,000 people. [115]
Total US coal production, 1870–2018 Historical coal production of different countries. Coal mining is an industry in transition in the United States. Production in 2019 was down 40% from the peak production of 1,171.8 million short tons (1,063 million metric tons) in 2008. Employment of 43,000 coal miners is down from a peak of 883,000 in ...
Coal mining regions are significant resource extraction industries in many parts of the world. They provide a large amount of the fossil fuel energy in the world economy.. The People's Republic of China is the largest producer of coal in the world, while Australia is the largest coal exporter. [1]
Coal production of India. Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining 997 million metric tons (1,099 million short tons) in FY 2023-24. Around 20% of coal is imported.
Coal supplies most of China's energy Entrance to a small coal mine in China, 1999 A coal shipment underway in China, 2007 Historical coal production of different countries. China is the largest producer and consumer of coal and coal power in the world.
The following is a list of European countries by coal production in 2014, based mostly on the Statistical Review of World Energy published in 2015 by British Petroleum, [1] ranking nations with coal production larger than 0.05 percent of world production.