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Electricity - from fossil fuels
This entry measures the capacity of plants that generate electricity by burning fossil fuels (such as coal, petroleum products, and natural gas), expressed as a share of the country's total generating capacity.
| Country | Electricity - from fossil fuels |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan |
45% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Albania |
5% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Algeria |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| American Samoa |
98% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Andorra |
61% of total installed capacity
(2010 est.)
|
| Angola |
34% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Antigua and Barbuda |
97% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Argentina |
69% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Armenia |
58% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Aruba |
87% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Australia |
72% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Austria |
25% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Azerbaijan |
84% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bahamas, The |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bahrain |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bangladesh |
97% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Barbados |
93% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Belarus |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Belgium |
35% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Belize |
51% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Benin |
88% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bermuda |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bhutan |
1% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bolivia |
76% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
49% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Botswana |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Brazil |
17% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| British Virgin Islands |
97% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Brunei |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Bulgaria |
39% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Burkina Faso |
80% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Burma |
39% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Burundi |
14% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cabo Verde |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cambodia |
35% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cameroon |
52% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Canada |
23% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cayman Islands |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Central African Republic |
50% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Chad |
98% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Chile |
59% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| China |
62% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Colombia |
29% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Comoros |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the |
2% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Congo, Republic of the |
64% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cook Islands |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Costa Rica |
18% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cote d'Ivoire |
60% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Croatia |
45% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cuba |
91% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Cyprus |
85% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Czechia |
60% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Denmark |
46% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Djibouti |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Dominica |
72% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Dominican Republic |
77% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Ecuador |
43% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Egypt |
91% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| El Salvador |
49% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Equatorial Guinea |
61% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Eritrea |
99% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Estonia |
72% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Eswatini |
39% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Ethiopia |
3% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| European Union |
44% of total installed capacity
(2015 est.)
|
| Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) |
74% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Faroe Islands |
54% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Fiji |
34% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Finland |
41% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| France |
17% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| French Polynesia |
70% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Gabon |
51% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Gambia, The |
97% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Georgia |
35% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Germany |
41% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Ghana |
58% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Gibraltar |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Greece |
57% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Greenland |
51% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Grenada |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Guam |
94% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Guatemala |
41% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Guinea |
33% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Guinea-Bissau |
99% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Guyana |
89% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Haiti |
82% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Honduras |
40% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Hong Kong |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Hungary |
64% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Iceland |
4% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| India |
71% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Indonesia |
85% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Iran |
84% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Iraq |
91% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Ireland |
65% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Israel |
95% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Italy |
54% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Jamaica |
83% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Japan |
71% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Jordan |
87% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kazakhstan |
86% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kenya |
33% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kiribati |
73% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Korea, North |
45% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Korea, South |
70% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kosovo |
97% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kuwait |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Kyrgyzstan |
24% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Laos |
28% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Latvia |
39% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Lebanon |
88% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Lesotho |
0% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Liberia |
57% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Libya |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Lithuania |
73% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Luxembourg |
25% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Macau |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Madagascar |
74% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Malawi |
1% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Malaysia |
78% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Maldives |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mali |
68% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Malta |
81% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Marshall Islands |
81% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mauritania |
65% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mauritius |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mexico |
71% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
96% of total installed capacity
(2015 est.)
|
| Moldova |
86% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mongolia |
87% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Montenegro |
23% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Montserrat |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Morocco |
68% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Mozambique |
16% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Namibia |
28% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Nauru |
86% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Nepal |
5% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Netherlands |
75% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| New Caledonia |
87% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| New Zealand |
23% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Nicaragua |
56% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Niger |
95% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Nigeria |
80% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Niue |
87% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| North Macedonia |
60% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Norway |
3% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Oman |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Pakistan |
62% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Panama |
36% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Papua New Guinea |
63% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Paraguay |
0% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Peru |
61% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Philippines |
67% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Poland |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Portugal |
41% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Puerto Rico |
94% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Qatar |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Romania |
47% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Russia |
68% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Rwanda |
42% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
94% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saint Lucia |
99% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
96% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
85% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Samoa |
48% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Sao Tome and Principe |
88% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Saudi Arabia |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Senegal |
82% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Serbia |
65% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Seychelles |
91% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Sierra Leone |
23% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Singapore |
98% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Slovakia |
36% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Slovenia |
37% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Solomon Islands |
92% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Somalia |
93% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| South Africa |
85% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| South Sudan |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Spain |
47% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Sri Lanka |
52% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Sudan |
44% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Suriname |
61% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Sweden |
5% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Switzerland |
3% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Syria |
83% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Taiwan |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Tajikistan |
6% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Tanzania |
55% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Thailand |
76% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Timor-Leste |
0% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Togo |
70% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Tonga |
74% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Trinidad and Tobago |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Tunisia |
94% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Turkey |
53% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Turkmenistan |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Turks and Caicos Islands |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Tuvalu |
96% of total installed capacity
(2015 est.)
|
| Uganda |
19% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Ukraine |
65% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| United Arab Emirates |
99% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| United Kingdom |
50% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| United States |
70% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Uruguay |
29% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Uzbekistan |
86% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Vanuatu |
71% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Venezuela |
51% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Vietnam |
56% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Virgin Islands |
98% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| West Bank |
78% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Western Sahara |
100% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| World |
63% of total installed capacity
(2015 est.)
|
| Yemen |
79% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Zambia |
5% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|
| Zimbabwe |
58% of total installed capacity
(2016 est.)
|