Coal Information 2015

COAL INFORMATION: DATABASE DOCUMENTATION (2015 edition) - 1
COAL INFORMATION
2015 EDITION
DATABASE DOCUMENTATION
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
2 - COAL INFORMATION: DATABASE DOCUMENTATION (2015 edition)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.
Changes from last edition .................................................................................................................... 3
2.
List of electronic tables ......................................................................................................................... 4
3.
Product definitions ............................................................................................................................... 6
4.
Flow definitions Statistics ............................................................................................................... 12
5.
Flow definitions Balances................................................................................................................ 23
6.
Flow definitions Calorific values ..................................................................................................... 35
7.
Geographical coverage definitions ................................................................................................... 37
8.
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 46
9.
Definitions ........................................................................................................................................... 48
Energy sources ................................................................................................................................. 48
Flows: energy balance ...................................................................................................................... 52
Coal resources and reserves ............................................................................................................ 55
Units and conversions ...................................................................................................................... 55
10.
Sources and notes .............................................................................................................................. 57

General notes ................................................................................................................................... 57
Peoples Republic of China .............................................................................................................. 58
Other sources ................................................................................................................................... 60
11.
Country notes....................................................................................................................................... 63
12.
Geographical coverage notes ........................................................................................................... 73
13.
Abbreviations, conversion factors and calorific values .................................................................. 75
14.
World coal market review ................................................................................................................... 78

Production ......................................................................................................................................... 78
Trade ................................................................................................................................................ 82
Consumption..................................................................................................................................... 89
Uses of coal ...................................................................................................................................... 95
CO2 emissions .................................................................................................................................. 98
1. CHANGES FROM LAST EDITION

Whats new?
Provisional 2014 data
In this edition, the term provisional is used instead of estimates for the most recent years data. Energy data
reported for 2014 (shown as 2014p) are derived from provisional data based on submissions received in early 2015
and on monthly submissions to the IEA from member countries. In some instances it has been necessary for the IEA
to estimate some data; explanations of the estimates are provided in the country notes.
Geographical coverage:
In this edition, data for Niger became available from 2000 to 2013. Prior to 2000, data for Niger are presented in
Other Africa.
In this edition data for South Sudan became available from 2012. Prior to 2012, they are included in Sudan.
South Sudan became an independent country on 9 July 2011. From 2012, data for South Sudan are reported
separately and therefore, breaks in the time series may occur between 2011 and 2012 for Sudan data.
The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries, Curaao and
Sint Maarten, with the remaining islands joining the Netherlands as special municipalities. In this edition, the methodology for accounting for the energy statistics of the Netherlands Antilles has been revised in order to follow the
above-mentioned geographical changes. From 2012 onwards, data now account for the energy statistics of Curaao
Island only. Prior to 2012, data remain unchanged and still cover the entire territory of the former Netherland Antilles. From this edition the country name has been changed from Netherland Antilles to Netherlands Antilles / Curaao.
Official data from the Peoples Republic of China for 2013 and 2014 were not available prior to publication,
therefore estimations have been used, based on available official sources and assumptions on consumption patterns, in this edition. Data revisions are expected from the Peoples Republic of China later in 2015 and the IEA
intends to update the electronic data files when these data become available. As a result of this growth rates between 2012 and 2013 may be revised.
2. LIST OF ELECTRONIC TABLES

Data for all available years are provided in this series
of databases, generally from 1960 to 2013 for OECD
countries, 1971 to 2013 for non-OECD countries and
1978-2013 for OECD Imports and Exports to partner
countries. Data for some products begin in 1978.
Some data is released for 2014 in July 2015 on a provisional basis and this data should be considered as
preliminary. Final data for 2014, including full consumption break-down will be received for the 2016
publication, and updating this data will form the basis
of the preliminary 2016 edition, released in April
2016.
World coal supply:

Coal World Supply.ivt
In this database, statistics for different types of coal
and coal products, including manufactured gases are
shown. These products are: anthracite, coking coal,
other bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite,
patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coal tar, BKB,
gas works gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, other
recovered gases, peat, peat products and oil shale and
oil sands. The aggregates hard coal, brown coal and
steam coal are also included. This table provides reference statistics of coal such as indigenous production, imports, exports and primary energy supply,
based in kilotonnes for solid fuel and TJ for gases for
OECD and Non-OECD countries.
This database will not be updated in 2016 to include
the OECD revisions that form the preliminary edition,
thus 2014 will refer to 2014e and provisional data
submitted in early 2014 in all cases. This ensures that
the OECD and Non-OECD data provided within this

database are on an equivalent basis.
This also means that differences may exist for OECD
countries and aggregates between this database and
the updated preliminary databases in shared flows,
and the interactive specific information (such as country notes or product definitions) provided for each
element. This also means that the information provided in this documentation may supercede the interactive information.
Final 2014 data in this database will be provided in
the 2016 publication.
OECD coal imports:

Coal Imports.ivt
This table presents detailed coal import data by country of origin for OECD member states for the following coal products and aggregates: anthracite, cokingcoal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite, patent fuel, coke
oven coke, coal tar, BKB, peat, peat products, hard
coal, brown coal, and steam coal. The data is reported
in kilotonnes.
Data for 2014 are provisional.
OECD coal exports:

Coal Exports.ivt
This table presents detailed coal export data by country of destination for OECD member states for the
following coal products and aggregates: anthracite,
coking coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite, patent fuel,
coke oven coke, coal tar, BKB, peat, peat products,
hard coal, brown coal and steam coal. The data is reported in kilotonnes.
OECD coal statistics:

Coal Statistics OECD.ivt
In this table, statistics for different types of coal and
coal products, including manufactured gases are
shown. These products are: anthracite, coking coal,
other bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite,
patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coal tar, BKB,
gas works gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, other
recovered gases, peat, peat products and oil shale and
steam coal are also included. This table provides full
supply and consumption data of coal such as primary
energy supply, transformation sector, energy sector
and final consumption based in kilotonnes for OECD
countries.
OECD coal balances:

Coal Balance OECD.ivt
In this table, a balance for different types of coal and
coal products, including manufactured gases is shown.
These products are: anthracite, coking coal, other bituminous coal, sub-bituminous coal, lignite, patent
fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coal tar, BKB, gas
works gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, other
recovered gases, peat, peat products, and oil shale and
steam coal are also included, as is a product coal
which includes all primary coal types, and all derived
coal products, but not peat, peat products, or oil shale
and oil sands. This table provides full balance data
such as primary energy supply, transformation sector
and final consumption based in kilotonnes of coal
equivalent (7,000 Gigacalories) for OECD countries
and OECD country aggregate groups. Other units are
selectable and they include kilotonnes of oil equivalent
(10,000 Gigacalories), Terajoules and Teracalories.
OECD coal calorific values:

Coal NCV OECD.ivt
In this table, calorific values for select flows of different types of coal and coal products are shown on a
country by country basis. These products are: anthracite, coking coal, other bituminous coal, subbituminous coal, lignite, patent fuel, coke oven coke,
gas coke, coal tar and BKB, peat, peat products, and
oil shale and oil sands. The aggregates, hard coal and
brown coal, are included for years prior to 1978 only.
This table provides the calorific values used to convert raw tonnes of coal and coal products into energy
for the OECD Coal Balance data. It is shown in
Megajoules per tonne for OECD countries.
3. PRODUCT DEFINITIONS
Coal
Coal is a family name for a variety of solid organic
fuels and refers to a whole range of combustible sedimentary rock materials spanning a continuous quality
scale. For convenience, this continuous series is often
divided into two main categories, which are themselves divided into two subcategories:
Hard coal
Anthracite
Bituminous coal
- Coking coal
- Other bituminous coal
Brown coal
Sub-bituminous coal
Lignite
In cases where data are presented in Mtoe or Mtce in
this book and sourced to OECD/IEA Energy Balances,
the term Coal includes all primary coal types listed
above, and coal products (patent fuel, coke oven coke,
gas coke, coal tar, BKB, coke oven gas, gas works
gas, blast furnace gas, and other recovered gases). For
display purposes in some cases, peat for energy use,
peat products and oil shale and oil sands are shown
together.
Classifying different types of coal into practical categories for use at an international level is difficult for
two reasons:
Divisions between coal categories vary between classification systems, both national and international,
based on calorific value, volatile matter content, fixed
carbon content, caking and coking properties, or some
combination of two or more of these criteria.
Although the relative value of the coals within a particular category depends on the degree of dilution by
moisture and ash and contamination by sulphur,

chlorine, phosphorous and certain trace elements, these
factors do not affect the divisions between categories.
Coal quality can vary and it is not always possible to
ensure that the available descriptive and analytical
information is truly representative of the body of coal
to which it refers.
The International Coal Classification of the Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) recognises two
broad categories of coal:
i) Hard coal: Coal of gross calorific value not less
than 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t) on an ash-free but
moist basis and with a mean random reflectance of
vitrinite of at least 0.6.
ii) Brown coal: Non-agglomerating coal with a gross
calorific value less than 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t)
and with a mean random reflectance of vitrinite of
less than 0.6.
The IEA has adopted the basis of these definitions of
hard coal and brown coal in this book and in other
publications for presenting statistics relating to coal
production, trade and consumption.
Historically, while also adopted by the IEA in prior
editions, the boundary conditions of these definitions
differed to what is shown above. Cooperation between
various authorities, including the IEA, has resulted in
the development of a harmonised suite of product and
energy flow definitions. These are available at:
http://www.iea.org/interenerstat_v2/meetings.asp.
It should be stressed that this classification system is
based on the inherent qualities of the coal in question
and not on the final use of the coal. In this way the
classification system attempts to be objective and
simple to apply, and this should also minimise the
differences between reported data from consumer and
producer nations when international trade occurs or
even producers and consumers on a national basis.
Some countries however may still choose to report

consumption by classification based on or guided by
usage, so data presented in this book may differ from
those presented in the national publications of individual countries because the countries may have
adopted a different coal classification and reporting
system that better suits their particular national needs.
As far as possible, national coal statistics reported by
the IEA in this book and in other publications have
been adjusted to be consistent with the IEA definitions noted above, however this may not always be
the case.
Due to the differing nature of the criteria for these
coal types, in some cases it is possible to fulfil some,
but not all criteria. In this case a judgement call needs
to be made. As a general rule though, para-bituminous
and ortho-bituminous coals tend to be classed as other
bituminous coal despite failing to meet one of the calorific or vitrinite mean random reflectance criteria.
Primary coal used in pulverised (or granular) coal
injection in blast furnaces is commonly abbreviated to
PCI (or GCI) coal. (In this book PCI includes GCI).
The IEA does not have a separate product classification for PCI as the term defines a particular end-use
for coal. In IEA statistics, PCI is generally included in
steam coal, with the exception of Japan, Korea, the
Netherlands, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Turkey and
the United Kingdom, where it is included with coking
coal. This also means that PCI production and trade
are not available in this book.
In order to improve the information base for coal
market analysis and projections, these two main categories of coal have been further sub-divided in
IEA/OECD Coal Statistics from 1978 as follows:
Hard coal
Hard coal is calculated as the sum of anthracite and all
bituminous coals.
Anthracite is a high-rank, hard coal used mainly
for industrial and residential heat raising.
Bituminous coal is a medium- to high-rank coal
used for gasification, industrial coking and heat
raising and residential heat raising. Bituminous
coal that can be used in the production of a coke
capable of supporting a blast furnace charge is
known as coking coal.
Other bituminous coal, not included under coking
coal, may also be commonly known as thermal
coal; however this less formal grouping increasingly tends to include a range of brown coals. Also
included in other bituminous coal statistics are recovered slurries, middlings and other low-grade,
higher-rank coal products not further classified by
type.
Note: In prior editions, for the following countries,
hard coal data also contained sub-bituminous coal:
Australia, Belgium, Chile, Finland, France, Iceland,
Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal and
the United States. Prior to 1978, where only hard coal
and brown coal are available as classification breakdowns, hard coal data for these countries may still
contain sub-bituminous coal data.
Brown coal
Brown coal is calculated as the sum of subbituminous coal and lignite. In previous editions, oil
shale mined and combusted directly was reported as
lignite, while shale oil was reported as other hydrocarbons in Oil Information. In the 2014 edition, oil
shale and oil sands have their own category, while
shale oil continues to be reported as other hydrocarbons in Oil Information.
Definitions for sub-bituminous coal and lignite are as
follows:
Sub-bituminous coal: non-agglomerating coals
with a gross calorific value between 4 777 kcal/kg
(20 GJ/t) and 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t) on an ashfree but moist basis.
Lignite: non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value less than 4 777 kcal/kg (20 GJ/t) on an
ash-free but moist basis.
Note: In the 2014 edition, the calorific floor for subbituminous coal (on an adjusted basis) has been
raised from 4 165 kcal/kg to 4 777 kcal/kg. Very little
product reclassification from sub-bituminous coal to
lignite has occurred as a result of this change in requirements.
Steam Coal
Steam coal in this publication contains all anthracite,
other bituminous coal and sub-bituminous coal, but
not lignite or coking coal.
Prior to the 2012 publication, all hard coals that were
not coking coal (including the sub-bituminous coal
from the excepted countries) were classed as steam
coal. This also included by necessity countries (not
listed) where sub-bituminous coal was unable to be
separated from other bituminous coal data for reporting purposes.
For the Coal Information 2012 publication onwards,

the definition of steam coal was adjusted to include all
sub-bituminous coals. This move was done to achieve
greater congruence with practical, formal and informal definitions of steam (thermal) coal in the market
and coal industry at large.
and limited air access (initial stage of coalification). It

is available in two main forms for use as a fuel - sod
peat and milled peat. Peat is not considered a renewable
resource as its regeneration period is considerable.
The definitions of hard coal and brown coal as aggregates in terms of their component parts remain unchanged and consistent with the UNECE guidelines
above and InterEnerStat definitions. This means hard
coal can no longer be calculated by adding steam coal
data to coking coal data.
Oil shale should not be confused with shale oil. Shale

oil (often obtained by in situ thermally enhanced mining practices) is reported as an oil product.
Coal products
The primary coal types mentioned above may be directly consumed or transformed into another fuel or
energy source. Derived solid fuels and liquids are
products resulting from the transformation from hard
coal, brown coal or other primary solid fuels, sometimes with the addition of other materials.
Manufactured Gases
Manufactured gases created outside of refineries,
sourced primarily from solid hydrocarbons are reported on the coal questionnaire. They include purpose
built products like gas works gas, whose manufacture
is often the main purpose of the transformation process, and products like coke oven gas and blast furnace gas which are useful energy by-products of another process.
Oil shale and oil sands
Oil shale is a sedimentary rock which contains organic matter in the form of kerogen a waxy hydrocarbon-rich material regarded as a precursor of petroleum. In solid form, it contains more inert matter than
coal, while the sand in oil sands may often be in the
form of sandstone. Oil shale may be burned directly,
or retorted to extract shale oil, the process of which is
reported as coal liquefaction transformation.
Heat and electricity

Data for electricity and heat includes disaggregated data
on inputs and outputs of combined heat and power and
on district heating. Data on heat became available in
different years for different countries and thus aggregated country data should be used with caution.
Total electricity production includes production from
both main activity producers (formerly known as public) and autoproducers. Generally, the split of total
electricity production between main activity producers
and autoproducers is available only after 1973.
Peat
2015 edition, definition changes
A solid formed from the partial decomposition of

dead vegetation under conditions of high humidity
Any changes enacted for this release to the data definitions in the following tables will be shown in red.
Coal and coal products

Flow
Short name
Definition
COAL
(For balances only.) This is the sum of all primary coals (not peat,
peat products or oil shale and oil sands) and all derived coal products (cokes, gases, tars, briquettes etc).
Hard coal
HARDCOAL
Hard coal refers to coal of gross calorific value greater than

24 MJ/kg (~5 732 kcal/kg) on an ash-free but moist basis and with a
mean random reflectance of vitrinite of at least 0.6. Hard coal may
include coals with a GCV greater than or equal to 24 MJ/kg and a
mean Rr < 0.6%. Hard coal is the sum of anthracite, coking coal,
other bituminous coal and for some countries, prior to 1978 (see
Note on Coal Classification above), hard coal includes subbituminous coal.
Brown coal
BROWN
Brown coal is the sum of lignite and sub-bituminous coal. For some
countries prior to 1978 (see Note on Coal Classification above),
brown coal excludes sub-bituminous coal.
Steam coal
STEAMCOAL
Steam coal is coal used for steam raising and space heating purposes and includes all anthracite and bituminous coals not included
under coking coal and for all countries; steam coal also includes
sub-bituminous coal.
Anthracite
ANTCOAL
A high rank coal used for industrial and residential applications. It

is generally less than 10% volatile matter and a high carbon content
(about 90% fixed carbon). Its gross calorific value is greater than
24 MJ/kg (~5 732 kcal/kg) on an ash-free but moist basis. It has a
vitrinite mean random reflectance greater than or equal to 2% and is
non-agglomerating.
Coking coal
COKCOAL
Coal with a quality that allows the production of a coke suitable to

support a blast furnace charge. Its gross calorific value is greater
than 24 MJ/kg (~5 732 kcal/kg) on an ash-free but moist basis.
Other bituminous coal
BITCOAL
Other bituminous coal is used for steam raising and space heating
purposes and includes all bituminous coal that is not included under
coking coal. It usually contains more than 10% volatile matter and
relatively high carbon content (less than 90% fixed carbon). Its
gross calorific value is greater than 24 MJ/kg (~5 732 kcal/kg) on
an ash-free but moist basis and can include parabituminous and orthobituminous coals.
Sub-bituminous coal
SUBCOAL
Non-agglomerating coals with a gross calorific value between

20 MJ/kg (~4 777 kcal/kg) and 24 MJ/kg (~5 732 kcal/kg) on a
moist but ash free basis, and containing more than 31 per cent volatile matter on a dry, mineral free basis.
Lignite
LIGNITE
Non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value of less than

20 MJ/kg (4 777 kcal/kg) on a moist, but ash free basis.
Patent fuel
PATFUEL
A composition fuel manufactured from hard coal fines with the addition of a binding agent. The amount of patent fuel produced therefore can be slightly higher than the actual amount of coal consumed
in the transformation process.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Coke oven coke
OVENCOKE
The solid product obtained from the carbonisation of coal, principally coking coal, at high temperature. It is low in moisture content
and volatile matter. Also included are semi-coke, a solid product
obtained from the carbonisation of coal at a low temperature, lignite
coke, semi-coke made from lignite/brown coal, coke breeze and
foundry coke. Cokes obtained from other sources such as process
residues or flue gas precipitation may also be shown here.
Gas coke
GASCOKE
A by-product of hard coal used for the production of town gas in

gas works. Gas coke is used for heating purposes.
Coal tar
COALTAR
Coal tar is a result of the destructive distillation of bituminous coal.

Coal tar is the liquid by-product of the distillation of coal to make
coke in the coke oven process. Coal tar can be further distilled into
different organic products (e.g. benzene, toluene, naphthalene),
which normally would be reported as a feedstock to the petrochemical industry.
Brown coal briquettes
BKB
Composition fuels manufactured from lignite/brown coal, produced

by briquetting under high pressure. These figures include dried lignite fines and dust.
Gas works gas
GASWKSGS
Covers all types of gas produced in public utility or private plants,

whose main purpose is the manufacture, transport and distribution
of gas. It includes gas produced by carbonisation (including gas
produced by coke ovens and transferred to gas works), by total gasification (with or without enrichment with oil products), by cracking
of natural gas, and by reforming and simple mixing of gases and/or
air. This heading also includes substitute natural gas, which is a
high calorific value gas manufactured by chemical conversion of a
hydrocarbon fossil fuel.
Coal seam gas is reported on the natural gas questionnaire as colliery gas, as most likely will be the case for underground coal gasification (UGC).
Coke oven gas
COKEOVGS
Coke oven gas is obtained as a by-product of solid fuel carbonisation and gasification operations carried out by coke producers and
iron and steel plants. It is calorifically rich, and when cleaned is
predominantly H2.
Blast furnace gas
BLFURGS
Produced during the combustion of coke in blast furnaces in the

iron and steel industry. It is recovered and used as a fuel partly
within the plant and partly in other steel industry processes or in
power stations equipped to burn it. It is mainly nitrogen (N2), with
roughly equal amounts of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, and
will contain other trace gases. Off gases from direct reduced iron
and other similar processes may also be reported here.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Other recovered gases
OGASES
Other recovered gases were previously known as oxygen steel furnace gas, which is most commonly obtained as a by-product of the
production of steel in an oxygen-fired furnace; it is recovered upon
leaving the furnace. The gas is also known as converter gas, LD gas
or BOS gas. Other gases of similar nature are also reported in this
category, hence the change of name to be intrinsically more inclusive.
Peat
PEAT
Combustible soft, porous or compressed, fossil sedimentary deposit

of plant origin with high water content (up to 90 per cent in the raw
state), easily cut, of light to dark brown colour. Peat used for nonenergy purposes is not included.
Peat products
PEATPROD
Peat products include peat briquettes and peat pellets. Milled peat is
included in peat, not peat products..
OILSHALE
Oil shale should not be confused with shale oil. Shale oil (often obtained by in situ thermally enhanced mining practices) is reported as
an oil product.
Oil shale is a sedimentary rock which contains organic matter in the
form of kerogen a waxy hydrocarbon-rich material regarded as a
precursor of petroleum. In solid form, it contains more inert matter
than coal, while the sand in oil sands may often be in the form of
sandstone. Oil shale may be burned directly, or retorted to extract
shale oil, the process of which is reported as coal liquefaction transformation.
4. FLOW DEFINITIONS STATISTICS

Supply
Flow
Short name
Definition
Production
INDPROD
Production refers to the quantities of fuels extracted or produced,

calculated after any operation for removal of inert matter or impurities (e.g. sulphur from natural gas). For other hydrocarbons
(shown with crude oil), production should include synthetic crude
oil (including mineral oil extracted form bituminous minerals such
as oil shale and tar sands, etc.). Production of secondary oil products
represents the gross refinery output. Secondary coal products and
gases represent the output from coke ovens, gas works, blast furnaces and other transformation processes.
From other sources

coal
OSCOAL
From other sources

natural gas
OSNATGAS
From other sources refers to both primary energy that has not been
accounted for under production and secondary energy that has been
accounted for in the production of another fuel. For example, under
additives: benzol, alcohol and methanol produced from natural gas;
under refinery feedstocks: backflows from the petrochemical industry used as refinery feed-stocks; under other hydrocarbons (included with crude oil): liquids obtained from coal liquefaction and
GTL plants; under primary coal: recovered slurries, middlings, recuperated coal dust and other low-grade coal products that cannot be
classified according to type of coal from which they are obtained;
under gas works gas: natural gas, refinery gas, and LPG, that are
treated or mixed in gas works (i.e. gas works gas produced from
sources other than coal).
From other sources oil OSOIL

products
From other sources
renewables
OSRENEW
From other sources

not elsewhere specified
OSNONSPEC
Imports
IMPORTS
Imports comprise the amount of fuels obtained from or supplied to

other countries, whether or not there is an economic or customs union between the relevant countries. Coal in transit should not be included.
Exports
EXPORTS
Exports comprise the amount of fuels obtained from or supplied to

other countries, whether or not there is an economic or customs union between the relevant countries. Coal in transit should not be included.
Supply
Flow
Short name
Definition
International marine
bunkers
MARBUNK
International marine bunkers covers those quantities delivered to

ships of all flags that are engaged in international navigation. The
international navigation may take place at sea, on inland lakes and
waterways, and in coastal waters. Consumption by ships engaged in
domestic navigation is excluded. The domestic/international split is
determined on the basis of port of departure and port of arrival, and
not by the flag or nationality of the ship. Consumption by fishing
vessels and by military forces is also excluded. See definitions of
transport, fishing, and other non-specified.
International aviation
bunkers
AVBUNK
As per international marine bunkers, International aviation bunkers

covers those quantities delivered to aircraft of all flags that are engaged in international aviation. Consumption by aircraft engaged in
domestic aviation is excluded. The domestic/international split is
determined on the basis of airport of departure and airport of arrival,
and not by the flag or nationality of the aircraft. Consumption by
military forces is also excluded.
Stock changes
STOCKCHA
Stock changes reflects the difference between opening stock levels

on the first day of the year and closing levels on the last day of the
year of stocks on national territory held by producers, importers,
energy transformation industries and large consumers. Oil and gas
stock changes in pipelines are not taken into account. With the exception of large users mentioned above, changes in final users'
stocks are not taken into account. A stock build is shown as a negative number, and a stock draw as a positive number.
Domestic supply
DOMSUP
Domestic supply is defined as production + from other sources +

imports - exports - international marine bunkers stock changes.
Transfers
TRANSFER
Transfers comprises interproduct transfers, products transferred and

recycled products. Interproduct transfers results from reclassification
of products either because their specification has changed or because
they are blended into another product, e.g. kerosene may be reclassified as gasoil after blending with the latter in order to meet its winter
diesel specification. The net balance of interproduct transfers is zero.
Products transferred is intended for petroleum products imported for
further processing in refineries. For example, fuel oil imported for
upgrading in a refinery is transferred to the feedstocks category. Recycled products are finished products which pass a second time
through the marketing network, after having been once delivered to
final consumers (e.g. used lubricants which are reprocessed).
Statistical differences
STATDIFF
Statistical difference is defined as deliveries to final consumption +

use for transformation processes and consumption by energy industry own use + losses - domestic supply - transfers. Statistical differences arise because the data for the individual components of supply
are often derived from different data sources by the national administration. Furthermore, the inclusion of changes in some large consumers' stocks in the supply part of the balance introduces distortions which also contribute to the statistical differences.
Transformation processes
Flow
Short name
Definition
Transformation
processes
TOTTRANF
Transformation processes comprise the conversion of primary

forms of energy to secondary and further transformation (e.g. coking coal to coke, crude oil to oil products, and fuel oil to electricity).
Main activity producer

electricity plants
MAINELEC
Electricity plants refers to plants which are designed to produce

electricity only. If one or more units of the plant is a CHP unit (and
the inputs and outputs can not be distinguished on a unit basis) then
the whole plant is designated as a CHP plant. Main activity producers generate electricity and/or heat for sale to third parties, as their
primary activity. They may be privately or publicly owned. Note
that the sale need not take place through the public grid.
Autoproducer
electricity plants
AUTOELEC
Electricity plants refers to plants which are designed to produce

electricity only. If one or more units of the plant is a CHP unit (and
the inputs and outputs can not be distinguished on a unit basis) then
the whole plant is designated as a CHP plant. Autoproducer undertakings generate electricity and/or heat, wholly or partly for their
own use as an activity which supports their primary activity. They
may be privately or publicly owned.

CHP plants
MAINCHP
Combined heat and power plants refers to plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity (sometimes referred to
as co-generation power stations). If possible, fuel inputs and electricity/heat outputs are on a unit basis rather than on a plant basis.
However, if data are not available on a unit basis, the convention
for defining a CHP plant noted above should be adopted. Main activity producers generate electricity and/or heat for sale to third
parties, as their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly
owned. Note that the sale need not take place through the public
grid.
Autoproducer CHP
plants
AUTOCHP
Combined heat and power plants refers to plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity (sometimes referred to
as co-generation power stations). If possible, fuel inputs and electricity/heat outputs are on a unit basis rather than on a plant basis.
However, if data are not available on a unit basis, the convention
for defining a CHP plant noted above should be adopted. Note that
for autoproducer's CHP plants, all fuel inputs to electricity production are taken into account, while only the part of fuel inputs to heat
sold is shown. Fuel inputs for the production of heat consumed
within the autoproducer's establishment are not included here but
are included with figures for the final consumption of fuels in the
appropriate consuming sector. Autoproducer undertakings generate
electricity and/or heat, wholly or partly for their own use as an activity which supports their primary activity. They may be privately
or publicly owned.
Flow
Short name
Definition

heat plants
MAINHEAT
Heat plants refers to plants designed to produce heat only and who
sell heat to a third party (e.g. residential, commercial or industrial
consumers) under the provisions of a contract. Main activity producers generate electricity and/or heat for sale to third parties, as
their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly owned.
Note that the sale need not take place through the public grid.
Autoproducer heat
plants
AUTOHEAT
Heat plants refers to plants designed to produce heat only and who
sell heat to a third party (e.g. residential, commercial or industrial
consumers) under the provisions of a contract. Autoproducer undertakings generate electricity and/or heat, wholly or partly for their
own use as an activity which supports their primary activity. They
may be privately or publicly owned.
Heat pumps
THEAT
Heat pumps includes heat produced by heat pumps in transformation. Heat pumps that are operated within the residential sector
where the heat is not sold are not considered a transformation process and are not included here the electricity consumption would
appear as residential use.
Electric boilers
TBOILER
Includes electric boilers used to produce heat.
Chemical heat for

electricity production
TELE
Includes heat from chemical processes that is used to generate electricity.
Flow
Short name
Definition
Blast furnaces
TBLASTFUR
Blast furnaces covers the quantities of fuels used for the production
of blast furnace gas and oxygen steel furnace gas. The production
of pig-iron from iron ore in blast furnaces uses fuels for supporting
the blast furnace charge and providing heat and carbon for the reduction of the iron ore. Accounting for the calorific content of the
fuels entering the process is a complex matter as transformation
(into blast furnace gas) and consumption (heat of combustion) occur simultaneously. Some carbon is also retained in the pig-iron;
almost all of this reappears later in the oxygen steel furnace gas (or
converter gas) when the pig-iron is converted to steel. In the
1992/1993 annual questionnaires, Member Countries were asked
for the first time to report in the transformation sector the quantities
of all fuels (e.g. pulverised coal injection [PCI] coal, coke oven
coke, natural gas and oil) entering blast furnaces and the quantity of
blast furnace gas and oxygen steel furnace gas produced. The Secretariat then needed to split these inputs into the transformation and
consumption components. The transformation component is shown
in the row blast furnaces/gas works in the column appropriate for
the fuel, and the consumption component is shown in the row iron
and steel, in the column appropriate for the fuel. Originally, the
Secretariat assumed that there was a transformation efficiency of
100%, which meant that the energy going into the transformation
process was equal to the energy coming out (i.e. equivalent to the
energy content of the gases produced). However, when the IEA
data were used to calculate CO2 emissions from fuel combustion
using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
methodology, as published in the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, the blast furnaces were
showing a carbon gain. Starting with the 1998 edition, the Secretariat decided to assume a transformation efficiency such that the carbon input into the blast furnaces should equal the carbon output.
This is roughly equivalent to assuming an energy transformation
efficiency of 40%.
Gas works
TGASWKS
Gas works covers the quantities of fuels used for the production of
town gas.
Coke ovens
TCOKEOVS
Coke plants covers the use of fuels for the manufacture of coke and
coke oven gas.
Patent fuel plants
TPATFUEL
Patent fuel plants covers the use of fuels for the manufacture of
patent fuels.
BKB/PB plants
TBKB
BKB plants covers the use of fuels for BKB manufacture, and peat
for manufacture of peat products.
Oil refineries
TREFINER
Oil refineries covers the use of hydrocarbons for the manufacture of

finished petroleum products.
Flow
Short name
Definition
Petrochemical industry TPETCHEM
Covers backflows returned from the petrochemical industry. Note

that backflows from oil products that are used for non-energy purposes (i.e. white spirit and lubricants) are not included here, but in
non-energy use.
Coal liquefaction
plants
TCOALLIQ
Includes coal liquefaction plants.
Gas-to-liquids (GTL)
plants
TGTL
Includes gas-to-liquid plants.
For blended natural

gas
TBLENDGAS
Includes other gases for blending with natural gas.
Charcoal production
plants
TCHARCOAL
Includes the transformation of solid biomass into charcoal.
Not elsewhere
specified
(Transformation)
TNONSPEC
Includes non-specified transformation.
Energy industry own use and losses

Flow
Short name
Definition
Energy industry own

use
TOTENGY
Energy industry own use covers the amount of fuels used by the energy
producing industries (e.g. for heating, lighting and operation of all equipment used in the extraction process, for traction and for distribution).
It includes energy consumed by energy industries for heating, pumping, traction and lighting purposes [ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 05, 06, 19
and 35, Group 091 and Classes 0892 and 0721].
Coal mines
EMINES
Represents the energy which is used directly within the coal industry
for hard coal and lignite mining. It excludes coal burned in pithead
power stations (included under electricity plants in transformation
processes) and free allocations to miners and their families (considered as part of household consumption and therefore included under
residential).
Oil and gas extraction
EOILGASEX
For oil and gas extraction, flared gas is not included.
Blast furnaces
EBLASTFUR
Companies own consumption of fuels in operating a furnace.
Gas works
EGASWKS
Comprises consumption of fuels at the gas works and gasification

plants.
Gasification plants for

biogas
EBIOGAS
Includes own consumption of biogas necessary to support temperatures needed for anaerobic fermentation.
Coke ovens
ECOKEOVS
Companies own consumption of fuels at the coking plant.
Patent fuel plants
EPATFUEL
Comprises own consumption of fuels by patent fuel plants.
BKB/PB plants
EBKB
Comprises own consumption of fuels by briquetting plants.
Oil refineries
EREFINER
Comprises own consumption of fuels in refineries.
Coal liquefaction
plants
ECOALLIQ
Comprises own consumption of fuels at coal liquefaction plants.
Liquefaction (LNG) /
regasification plants
ELNG
Comprises own consumption of fuels at liquefaction (LNG)/ regasification plants.
plants
EGTL
Comprises own consumption of fuels at gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants.
Own use in electricity, EPOWERPLT Companies own consumption of fuels in electricity plants, combined
CHP and heat plants
heat and power plants (CHP) and heat plants.
Used for pumped
storage
EPUMPST
Represents electricity consumed in hydro-electric plants for pumped

storage.
Nuclear industry
ENUC
Represents the energy used in the nuclear industry.
Charcoal production
plants
ECHARCOAL
Represents the energy used in charcoal production plants.
Not elsewhere
specified (Energy)
ENONSPEC
Represents use in energy industries supporting transformations not

represented above, or support for processes unable to be reported in
their actual transformation for other reasons.
Losses
DISTLOSS
Losses in gas distribution, electricity transmission, and coal transport.
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Definition
Final consumption
FINCONS
Equal to the sum of the consumption in the end-use sectors. Energy

used for transformation processes and for own use of the energy producing industries is excluded. Final consumption reflects for the most
part deliveries to consumers (see note on stock changes).
Backflows from the petrochemical industry are not included in final
consumption (see from other sources under supply and petrochemical
plants in transformation processes).
Starting with the 2009 edition, international aviation bunkers is no
longer included in final consumption at the country level.
Industry
TOTIND
Industry consumption is specified as follows: (energy used for

transport by industry is not included here but is reported under
transport):
Iron and steel
IRONSTL
[ISIC Rev. 4 Group 241 and Class 2431]
Chemical and
petrochemical
CHEMICAL
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 20 and 21] Excluding petrochemical feedstocks.
Non-ferrous metals
NONFERR
[ISIC Rev. 4 Group 242 and Class 2432] Basic industries.
Non-metallic minerals
NONMET
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 23] Such as glass, ceramic, cement, etc.
Transport equipment
TRANSEQ
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 29 and 30]
Machinery
MACHINE
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 25 to 28] Fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment other than transport equipment.
Mining and quarrying
MINING
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 07 and 08 and Group 099] Mining (excluding

fuels) and quarrying.
Food and tobacco
FOODPRO
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 10 to 12]
Paper, pulp and print
PAPERPRO
Wood and wood

products
WOODPRO
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 16] Wood and wood products other than pulp
and paper.
Construction
CONSTRUC
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 41 to 43]
Textile and leather
TEXTILES
Not elsewhere
specified (Industry)
INONSPEC
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 22, 31 and 32] Any manufacturing industry

not included above. Note: Most countries have difficulties supplying
an industrial breakdown for all fuels. In these cases, the not elsewhere
specified industry row has been used. Regional aggregates of industrial consumption should therefore be used with caution.
Transport
TOTTRANS
Consumption in transport covers all transport activity (in mobile engines) regardless of the economic sector to which it is contributing
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 49 to 51], and is specified as follows:
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Definition
Domestic aviation
DOMESAIR
Includes deliveries of aviation fuels to aircraft for domestic aviation commercial, private, agricultural, etc. It includes use for purposes
other than flying, e.g. bench testing of engines, but not airline use of
fuel for road transport. The domestic/international split should be
determined on the basis of departure and landing locations and not by
the nationality of the airline. Note that this may include journeys of
considerable length between two airports in a country (e.g. San Francisco to Honolulu). For many countries this incorrectly includes fuel
used by domestically owned carriers for outbound international
traffic;
Road
ROAD
Road includes fuels used in road vehicles as well as agricultural and

industrial highway use. Excludes military consumption as well as
motor gasoline used in stationary engines and diesel oil for use in
tractors that are not for highway use.
Rail
RAIL
Rail includes quantities used in rail traffic, including industrial railways.
Pipeline transport
PIPELINE
Includes energy used in the support and operation of pipelines transporting gases, liquids, slurries and other commodities, including the
energy used for pump stations and maintenance of the pipeline. Energy for the pipeline distribution of natural or manufactured gas, hot
water or steam (ISIC Rev. 4 Division 35) from the distributor to final
users is excluded and should be reported in energy industry own use,
while the energy used for the final distribution of water (ISIC Rev. 4
Division 36) to household, industrial, commercial and other users
should be included in commercial/public services. Losses occurring
during the transport between distributor and final users should be reported as losses;
Domestic navigation
DOMESNAV
Includes fuels delivered to vessels of all flags not engaged in international navigation (see international marine bunkers). The domestic/
international split should be determined on the basis of port of departure and port of arrival and not by the flag or nationality of the ship.
Note that this may include journeys of considerable length between
two ports in a country (e.g. San Francisco to Honolulu). Fuel used for
ocean, coastal and inland fishing and military consumption are excluded;
Not elsewhere
specified (Transport)
TRNONSPE
Includes all transport not elsewhere specified. Note: International

marine bunkers and international aviation bunkers are shown in Supply and are not included in transport as part of final consumption.
Other
TOTOTHER
Includes residential, commercial/public services, agriculture/forestry,

fishing and non-specified (other).
Residential
RESIDENT
Includes consumption by households, excluding fuels used for

transport. Includes households with employed persons [ISIC Rev. 4
Division 97] which is a small part of total residential consumption.
Commercial and
public services
COMMPUB
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 33, 36-39, 45-47, 52, 53, 55-56, 58-66, 68-75,
77-82, 84 (excluding Class 8422), 85-88, 90-96 and 99]
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Definition
Agriculture/forestry
AGRICULT
Includes deliveries to users classified as agriculture, hunting and forestry by the ISIC, and therefore includes energy consumed by such
users whether for traction (excluding agricultural highway use), power or heating (agricultural and domestic) [ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 01
and 02].
Fishing
FISHING
Includes fuels used for inland, coastal and deep-sea fishing. Fishing
covers fuels delivered to ships of all flags that have refuelled in the
country (including international fishing) as well as energy used in the
fishing industry [ISIC Rev. 4 Division 03]. Prior to last year, fishing
was included with agriculture/forestry and this may continue to be
the case for some countries.
Not elsewhere
specified (Other)
ONONSPEC
Includes all fuel use not elsewhere specified as well as consumption

in the above-designated categories for which separate figures have
not been provided. Military fuel use for all mobile and stationary consumption is included here (e.g. ships, aircraft, road and energy used
in living quarters) regardless of whether the fuel delivered is for the
military of that country or for the military of another country.
Non-energy use
NONENUSE
Non-energy use covers those fuels that are used as raw materials in
the different sectors and are not consumed as a fuel or transformed
into another fuel. Non-energy use is shown separately in final consumption under the heading non-energy use.
Note that for biomass commodities, only the amounts specifically
used for energy purposes (a small part of the total) are included in the
energy statistics. Therefore, all non-energy use quantities are null by
definition.
Non-energy use
ind./transf./energy
NEINTREN
Non-energy in industry, transformation processes and energy industry

own use.
Of which: Non-energy
use in chemical/
petrochemical industry
NECHEM
The petrochemical industry includes cracking and reforming processes for the purpose of producing ethylene, propylene, butylene, synthesis gas, aromatics, butadene and other hydrocarbon-based raw materials in processes such as steam cracking, aromatics plants and
steam reforming [part of ISIC Rev. 4 Group 201].
Non-energy use in
transport
NETRANS
Non-energy use in transport.
Non-energy use in
other sectors
NEOTHER
Non-energy use in Other.
Electricity output (GWh)

Flow
Short name
Definition
Electricity output in
GWh
ELOUTPUT
Shows the total number of GWh generated by thermal power plants

separated into electricity plants and CHP plants, as well as production by nuclear and hydro, geothermal, etc.
Electricity outputmain activity

producer electricity
plants
ELMAINE
Total electricity generated in main activity producer electricity

plants.
Electricity outputautoproducer
electricity plants
ELAUTOE
Total electricity generated in autoproducer electricity plants.

producer CHP plants
ELMAINC
Total electricity generated in main activity producer CHP plants.
Electricity outputautoproducer CHP

plants
ELAUTOC
Total electricity generated in autoproducer CHP plants.
Heat output (TJ)

Flow
Short name
Definition
Heat output in TJ
HEATOUT
Shows the total amount of TJ generated by power plants separated

into CHP plants and heat plants.
Heat output-main
activity producer
CHP plants
HEMAINC
Total heat generated in main activity producer CHP plants.
Heat outputautoproducer CHP

plants
HEAUTOC
Total electricity generated in autoproducer CHP plants.
Heat output-main
activity producer heat
plant
HEMAINH
Total electricity generation in main activity producer heat plants.
Heat outputautoproducer heat

plants
HEAUTOH
Total electricity generation in autoproducer heat plants.
5. FLOW DEFINITIONS BALANCES

Supply
Flow
Short name
Definition
Production
INDPROD
Production is the production of primary energy, i.e. hard coal, lignite/brown coal, peat, crude oil, NGLs, natural gas, combustible renewables and waste, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, solar and the heat
from heat pumps that is extracted from the ambient environment. Production is calculated after removal of impurities (e.g. sulphur from
natural gas). Calculation of production of hydro, geothermal, etc.
and nuclear electricity is explained in Section 6.
Imports
IMPORTS
Comprise amounts having crossed the national territorial boundaries

of the country whether or not customs clearance has taken place.
Imports comprise the amount of fuels obtained from other countries,
whether or not there is an economic or customs union between the
relevant countries. Coal in transit should not be included.
Exports
EXPORTS
Comprise amounts having crossed the national territorial boundaries

of the country whether or not customs clearance has taken place.
Exports comprise the amount of fuels supplied to other countries,
whether or not there is an economic or customs union between the
relevant countries. Coal in transit should not be included.
International marine
bunkers
MARBUNK
Covers those quantities delivered to ships of all flags that are engaged
in international navigation. The international navigation may take place
at sea, on inland lakes and waterways, and in coastal waters. Consumption by ships engaged in domestic navigation is excluded. The domestic/international split is determined on the basis of port of departure and
port of arrival, and not by the flag or nationality of the ship. Consumption by fishing vessels and by military forces is also excluded. See domestic navigation, fishing and other non-specified.
International
aviation bunkers
AVBUNK
Includes deliveries of aviation fuels to aircraft for international aviation. Fuels used by airlines for their road vehicles are excluded. The
domestic/international split should be determined on the basis of departure and landing locations and not by the nationality of the airline.
For many countries this incorrectly excludes fuel used by domestically owned carriers for their international departures.
Supply
Flow
Short name
Definition
Stock changes
STOCKCHA
Reflects the difference between opening stock levels on the first day
of the year and closing levels on the last day of the year of stocks on
national territory held by producers, importers, energy transformation
industries and large consumers. A stock build is shown as a negative
number, and a stock draw as a positive number.
Total primary energy

supply
TPES
Total primary energy supply (TPES) is made up of production +

imports - exports - international marine bunkers - international
aviation bunkers stock changes.
Transfers
TRANSFER
Comprises interproduct transfers, products transferred and recycled

products.
Interproduct transfers results from reclassification of products either
because their specification has changed or because they are blended
into another product, e.g. kerosene may be reclassified as gasoil after
blending with the latter in order to meet its winter diesel specification.
The net balance of interproduct transfers is zero.
Products transferred is intended for oil products imported for further
processing in refineries. For example, fuel oil imported for upgrading
in a refinery is transferred to the feedstocks category.
Recycled products are finished products which pass a second time
through the marketing network, after having been once delivered to
final consumers (e.g. used lubricants which are reprocessed).
Statistical
differences
STATDIFF
Includes the sum of the unexplained statistical differences for individual fuels, as they appear in the basic energy statistics. It also includes the statistical differences that arise because of the variety of
conversion factors in the coal and oil columns.
Flow
Short name
Definition
Transformation
processes
TOTTRANF
Transformation processes comprises the conversion of primary forms of

energy to secondary and further transformation (e.g. coking coal to coke,
crude oil to oil products, and fuel oil to electricity). Inputs to transformation processes are shown as negative numbers and output from
the process is shown as a positive number. Transformation losses
will appear in the total column as negative numbers.
Main activity
plants
MAINELEC
Refers to plants which are designed to produce electricity only. If one

or more units of the plant is a CHP unit (and the inputs and outputs
can not be distinguished on a unit basis) then the whole plant is designated as a CHP plant. Main activity producers generate electricity
for sale to third parties, as their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly owned. Note that the sale need not take place
through the public grid.
Autoproducer
electricity plants
AUTOELEC
Refers to plants which are designed to produce electricity only. If one

or more units of the plant is a CHP unit (and the inputs and outputs
can not be distinguished on a unit basis) then the whole plant is designated as a CHP plant. Autoproducer undertakings generate electricity wholly or partly for their own use as an activity which supports
their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly owned.
Main activity
producer CHP plants
MAINCHP
Refers to plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity (sometimes referred to as co-generation power stations). If possible, fuel inputs and electricity/heat outputs are on a unit basis rather
than on a plant basis. However, if data are not available on a unit basis, the convention for defining a CHP plant noted above should be
adopted. Main activity producers generate electricity and/or heat for
sale to third parties, as their primary activity. They may be privately
or publicly owned. Note that the sale need not take place through the
public grid.
Autoproducer CHP
plants
AUTOCHP
Refers to plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity (sometimes referred to as co-generation power stations). If possible, fuel inputs and electricity/heat outputs are on a unit basis rather
than on a plant basis. However, if data are not available on a unit basis, the convention for defining a CHP plant noted above should be
adopted. Note that for autoproducer CHP plants, all fuel inputs to
electricity production are taken into account, while only the part of
fuel inputs to heat sold is shown. Fuel inputs for the production of
heat consumed within the autoproducer's establishment are not included here but are included with figures for the final consumption of
fuels in the appropriate consuming sector. Autoproducer undertakings generate electricity and/or heat, wholly or partly for their own
use as an activity which supports their primary activity. They may be
privately or publicly owned.
Flow
Short name
Definition
Main activity
producer heat plants
MAINHEAT
Refers to plants (including heat pumps and electric boilers) designed

to produce heat only and who sell heat to a third party (e.g. residential, commercial or industrial consumers) under the provisions of a
contract. Main activity producers generate heat for sale to third parties, as their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly
owned. Note that the sale need not take place through the public grid.
Autoproducer heat
plants
AUTOHEAT
Refers to plants (including heat pumps and electric boilers) designed

to produce heat only and who sell heat to a third party (e.g. residential, commercial or industrial consumers) under the provisions of a
contract. Autoproducer undertakings generate heat, wholly or partly
for their own use as an activity which supports their primary activity.
They may be privately or publicly owned.
Heat pumps
THEAT
Includes heat produced by heat pumps in transformation. Heat pumps

that are operated within the residential sector where the heat is not
sold are not considered a transformation process and
are not included here the electricity consumption would appear as
residential use.
Electric boilers
TBOILER
Includes electric boilers used to produce heat.
Chemical heat for

electricity
production
TELE
Includes heat from chemical processes that is used to generate electricity.
Blast furnaces
TBLASTFUR
Blast furnaces covers the quantities of fuels used for the production
of blast furnace gas and oxygen steel furnace gas. The production of
pig-iron from iron ore in blast furnaces uses fuels for supporting the blast
furnace charge and providing heat and carbon for the reduction of the
iron ore. Accounting for the calorific content of the fuels entering the
process is a complex matter as transformation (into blast furnace gas)
and consumption (heat of combustion) occur simultaneously. Some carbon is also retained in the pig-iron; almost all of this reappears later in
the oxygen steel furnace gas (or converter gas) when the pig-iron is converted to steel. In the 1992/1993 annual questionnaires, Member Countries were asked for the first time to report in transformation processes
the quantities of all fuels (e.g. pulverised coal injection [PCI] coal, coke
oven coke, natural gas and oil) entering blast furnaces and the quantity of
blast furnace gas and oxygen steel furnace gas produced. The Secretariat
then needed to split these inputs into the transformation and consumption
components. The transformation component is shown in the row blast
furnaces in the column appropriate for the fuel, and the consumption
component is shown in the row iron and steel, in the column appropriate
for the fuel. The Secretariat decided to assume a transformation efficiency such that the carbon input into the blast furnaces should equal the
carbon output. This is roughly equivalent to assuming an energy transformation efficiency of 40%.
Gas works
TGASWKS
Includes the manufacture of town gas. Note: in the summary balances this item also includes other gases blended with natural gas
(TBLENDGAS).
Flow
Short name
Definition
Coke ovens
TCOKEOVS
Includes the manufacture of coke and coke oven gas.
Patent fuel plants
TPATFUEL
Includes the manufacture of patent fuels.
BKB/PB plants
TBKB
Includes the manufacture of BKB and peat products.
Oil refineries
TREFINER
Includes the manufacture of finished oil products.
Petrochemical plants
TPETCHEM
Covers backflows returned from the petrochemical industry. Note

that backflows from oil products that are used for non-energy purposes (i.e. white spirit and lubricants) are not included here, but in
non-energy use.
Coal liquefaction
plants
TCOALLIQ
Includes coal, oil and tar sands used to produce synthetic oil.
Gas-to-liquids
(GTL) plants
TGTL
Includes natural gas used as feedstock for the conversion to liquids,

e.g. the quantities of fuel entering the methanol product process for
transformation into methanol.
For blended natural

gas
TBLENDGAS
Includes other gases that are blended with natural gas.
Charcoal production
plants
TCHARCOAL
Includes the transformation of solid biomass into charcoal.
Not elsewhere
specified
(Transformation)
TNONSPEC
Includes other transformation processes and data unable to be specified elsewhere.

Flow
Short name
Losses
DISTLOSS
Definition
Losses in gas distribution, electricity transmission and coal transport.
Flow used in the summary balances

Energy industry own
use
OWNUSE
Flow
Short name
Energy industry own

use
TOTENERGY
Is equal to the sum of EMINES, EOILGASEX, EBLASTFUR,

EGASWKS, EBIOGAS, ECOKEOVS, EPATFUEL, EBKB, EREFINER, ECOALLIQ, ELNG, EGTL, EPOWERPLT, EPUMPST,
ENUC, ECHARCOAL, ENONSPEC and DISTLOSS.
Definition
Energy industry own use covers the amount of fuels used by the energy producing industries (e.g. for heating, lighting and operation of
all equipment used in the extraction process, for traction and for
distribution).
It includes energy consumed by energy industries for heating, pumping, traction and lighting purposes [ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 05, 06, 19
and 35, Group 091 and Classes 0892 and 0721].

Flow
Short name
Coal mines
EMINES
Represents the energy which is used directly within the coal industry
for hard coal and lignite mining. It excludes coal burned in pithead
power stations (included under electricity plants in transformation
processes) and free allocations to miners and their families (considered as part of household consumption and therefore included under
residential).
[CURRENTLY NOT SHOWN SEPARATELY]
Oil and gas

extraction
EOILGASEX
Represents the energy which is used for oil and gas extraction. Flared
gas is not included.
Blast furnaces
EBLASTFUR
Represents the energy which is used in blast furnaces.

Gas works
EGASWKS
Represents the energy which is used in gas works.

Gasification plants
for biogas
EBIOGAS
Represents own consumption of biogas necessary to support temperatures needed for anaerobic fermentation.
Coke ovens
ECOKEOVS
Represents the energy used in coke ovens.

Patent fuel plants
EPATFUEL
Represents the energy used in patent fuel plants.

BKB plants
EBKB
Represents the energy used in BKB plants.

Oil refineries
EREFINER
Represents the energy used in oil refineries.

Coal liquefaction
plants
ECOALLIQ
Represents the energy used in coal liquefaction plants.

Liquefaction (LNG) /
regasification plants
ELNG
Represents the energy used in LNG and regasification plants.

plants
EGTL
Represents the energy used in gas-to-liquids plants.

Own use in
electricity, CHP and
heat plants
EPOWERPLT
Represents the energy used in main activity producer electricity, CHP

and heat plants.
Used for pumped

storage
EPUMPST
Represents electricity consumed in hydro-electric plants for pumped

storage.
Definition

Flow
Short name
Definition
Nuclear industry
ENUC
Represents the energy used in the nuclear industry.

Charcoal production
plants
ECHARCOAL
Represents the energy used in charcoal production plants.

Not elsewhere
specified (Energy)
ENONSPEC
Represents use in energy industries supporting transformations not

represented above, or support for processes unable to be reported in
their actual transformation for other reasons.
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Total final
consumption
TFC
Equal to the sum of the consumption in the end-use sectors. Energy

used for transformation processes and for own use of the energy
producing industries is excluded. Final consumption reflects for the
most part deliveries to consumers (see note on stock changes).
Backflows from the petrochemical industry are not included in final
consumption (see from other sources under supply and petrochemical plants in transformation).
Starting with the 2009 edition, international aviation bunkers is no
longer included in final consumption at the country level.
Industry
TOTIND
Industry consumption is specified as follows: (energy used for

transport by industry is not included here but is reported under
transport):
Iron and steel
IRONSTL
[ISIC Rev. 4 Group 241 and Class 2431]
Chemical and
petrochemical
CHEMICAL
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 20 and 21] Excluding petrochemical feedstocks.
Non-ferrous metals
NONFERR
[ISIC Rev. 4 Group 242 and Class 2432] Basic industries.
Non-metallic
minerals
NONMET
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 23] Such as glass, ceramic, cement, etc.
Transport
equipment
TRANSEQ
Machinery
MACHINE
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 25 to 28] Fabricated metal products, machinery and equipment other than transport equipment.
Mining and
quarrying
MINING
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 07 and 08 and Group 099] Mining (excluding

fuels) and quarrying.
Food and tobacco
FOODPRO
Paper, pulp and

print
PAPERPRO
Wood and wood

products
WOODPRO
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 16] Wood and wood products other than pulp
and paper.
Construction
CONSTRUC
[ISIC Rev. 4 Division 41 to 43]
Textile and leather
TEXTILES
Not elsewhere
specified (Industry)
INONSPEC
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 22, 31 and 32] Any manufacturing industry

not included above. Note: Most countries have difficulties supplying
an industrial breakdown for all fuels. In these cases, the not elsewhere specified industry row has been used. Regional aggregates of
industrial consumption should therefore be used with caution.
Definition
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Definition
Transport
TOTTRANS
Consumption in transport covers all transport activity (in mobile

engines) regardless of the economic sector to which it is contributing
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 49 to 51], and is specified as follows:
Domestic aviation
DOMESAIR
Includes deliveries of aviation fuels to aircraft for domestic aviation commercial, private, agricultural, etc. It includes use for purposes other than flying, e.g. bench testing of engines, but not airline use of fuel
for road transport. The domestic/international split should be determined on the basis of departure and landing locations and not by the
nationality of the airline. Note that this may include journeys of considerable length between two airports in a country (e.g. San Francisco
to Honolulu). For many countries this incorrectly includes fuel used
by domestically owned carriers for outbound international traffic;
Road
ROAD
Includes fuels used in road vehicles as well as agricultural and industrial highway use. Excludes military consumption as well as motor gasoline used in stationary engines and diesel oil for use in tractors that are not for highway use;
Rail
RAIL
Includes quantities used in rail traffic, including industrial railways;
Pipeline transport
PIPELINE
Includes energy used in the support and operation of pipelines transporting gases, liquids, slurries and other commodities, including the energy
used for pump stations and maintenance of the pipeline. Energy for the
pipeline distribution of natural or manufactured gas, hot water or steam
(ISIC Rev. 4 Division 35) from the distributor to final users is excluded
and should be reported in energy industry own use, while the energy
used for the final distribution of water (ISIC Rev. 4 Division 36) to
household, industrial, commercial and other users should be included in
commercial/public services. Losses occurring during the transport between distributor and final users should be reported as losses;
Domestic
navigation
DOMESNAV
Includes fuels delivered to vessels of all flags not engaged in international navigation (see international marine bunkers). The domestic/international split should be determined on the basis of port of
departure and port of arrival and not by the flag or nationality of the
ship. Note that this may include journeys of considerable length between two ports in a country (e.g. San Francisco to Honolulu). Fuel
used for ocean, coastal and inland fishing and military consumption
are excluded;
Not elsewhere
specified
(Transport)
TRNONSPE
Includes all transport not elsewhere specified. Note: International

marine bunkers and international aviation bunkers are shown in
Supply and are not included in the transport sector as part of final
consumption.
Other
TOTOTHER
Includes residential, commercial/public services, agriculture/forestry,

fishing and non-specified (other).
Residential
RESIDENT
Includes consumption by households, excluding fuels used for

transport. Includes households with employed persons [ISIC Rev. 4
Division 97] which is a small part of total residential consumption.
Final consumption
Flow
Short name
Definition
Commercial and
public services
COMMPUB
[ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 33, 36-39, 45-47, 52, 53, 55-56, 58-66, 6875, 77-82, 84 (excluding Class 8422), 85-88, 90-96 and 99]
Agriculture/forestry
AGRICULT
Includes deliveries to users classified as agriculture, hunting and

forestry by the ISIC, and therefore includes energy consumed by
such users whether for traction (excluding agricultural highway use),
power or heating (agricultural and domestic) [ISIC Rev. 4 Divisions 01
and 02].
Fishing
FISHING
Includes fuels used for inland, coastal and deep-sea fishing. Fishing
covers fuels delivered to ships of all flags that have refuelled in the
country (including international fishing) as well as energy used in
the fishing industry [ISIC Rev. 4 Division 03].
Not elsewhere
specified (Other)
ONONSPEC
Includes all fuel use not elsewhere specified as well as consumption

in the above-designated categories for which separate figures have
not been provided. Military fuel use for all mobile and stationary
consumption is included here (e.g. ships, aircraft, road and energy
used in living quarters) regardless of whether the fuel delivered is
for the military of that country or for the military of another country.
Non-energy use
NONENUSE
Non-energy use covers those fuels that are used as raw materials in the
different sectors and are not consumed as a fuel or transformed into another fuel. Non-energy use is shown separately in final consumption
under the heading non-energy use.
Note that for biomass commodities, only the amounts specifically
used for energy purposes (a small part of the total) are included in
the energy statistics. Therefore, the non-energy use of biomass is not
taken into consideration and the quantities are null by definition.
Non-energy use
industry/
transformation/
energy
NEINTREN
Non-energy in industry, transformation processes and energy industry own use.
Of which: Nonenergy use in

chemical/ petrochemical industry
NECHEM
The petrochemical industry includes cracking and reforming processes for the purpose of producing ethylene, propylene, butylene,
synthesis gas, aromatics, butadene and other hydrocarbon-based raw
materials in processes such as steam cracking, aromatics plants and
steam reforming [part of ISIC Rev. 4 Group 201].
Non-energy use in
transport
NETRANS
Non-energy use in transport.
Non-energy use in
other
NEOTHER
Non-energy use in Other.
Electricity output (GWh)

Flow
Short name
Electricity output in
GWh
ELOUTPUT

plants
ELMAINE
Electricity outputautoproducer
electricity plants
ELAUTOE

producer CHP
plants
ELMAINC
Electricity outputautoproducer CHP

plants
ELAUTOC
Definition
Shows the total number of GWh generated by power plants separated
into electricity plants and CHP plants. Contrary to the Basic Energy
Statistics, electricity production for hydro pumped storage is
excluded.
Heat output (TJ)

Flow
Short name
Definition
Heat output in TJ
HEATOUT
Shows the total number of TJ generated by power plants separated

into CHP plants and heat plants.
Heat output-main
activity producer
CHP plants
HEMAINC
Heat outputautoproducer CHP

plants
HEAUTOC
Heat output-main
activity producer
heat plant
HEMAINH
Heat outputautoproducer heat

plants
HEAUTOH
6. FLOW DEFINITIONS CALORIFIC

VALUES
Net calorific values
Expressed in Megajoules / tonne or kilojoules / kilogramme
Flow
Short name
Definition
Average NCV of supply
NAVERAGE
Weighted average of production, imports and negative

exports.
NCV of production
NINDPROD
NCV of imports
NIMPORTS
NCV of exports
NEXPORTS
NCV of coke ovens
NCOKEOVS
NCV of blast furnaces
NBLAST
NCV in main activity producer

electricity plants
NMAIN
NCV in autoproducer
electricity plants
NAUTOELEC
NCV in main activity CHP

plants
NMAINCHP
NCV in autoproducer CHP

plants
NAUTOCHP
NCV in main activity heat

plants
NMAINHEAT
NCV in autoproducer heat

plants
NAUTOHEAT
NCV in industry
NIND
NCV for other uses
NOTHER
Energy values for aggregated totals should be the sum

of their components multiplied by the specific calorific
value for each component, rather than using the aggregated total and this flow.
7. GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
(WORLD)
Countries and regions
Flow
Short name
Definition
Australia
AUSTRALI
Excludes the overseas territories.
Austria
AUSTRIA
Belgium
BELGIUM
Canada
CANADA
Chile
CHILE
Czech Republic
CZECH
Denmark
DENMARK
Estonia
ESTONIA
Finland
FINLAND
France
FRANCE
Includes Monaco, and excludes the following overseas

departments and territories (Guadeloupe, French Guiana,
Martinique, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Reunion, and
Saint Pierre and Miquelon).
Germany
GERMANY
Germany includes the new federal states of Germany from 1970

onwards.
Greece
GREECE
Hungary
HUNGARY
Iceland
ICELAND
Ireland
IRELAND
Israel
ISRAEL
The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the
responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such
data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan
Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank
under the terms of international law.
Italy
ITALY
Includes San Marino and the Holy See.
Excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Japan
JAPAN
Includes Okinawa.
Korea
KOREA
Luxembourg
LUXEMBOU
Mexico
MEXICO
Netherlands
NETHLAND
New Zealand
NZ
Norway
NORWAY
Poland
POLAND
Portugal
PORTUGAL
Slovak Republic
SLOVAKIA
Slovenia
SLOVENIA
Spain
SPAIN
Sweden
SWEDEN
Switzerland
SWITLAND
Turkey
TURKEY
United Kingdom
UK
The United Kingdom excludes the British overseas territories.

Coal exports to the Crown dependencies are not recorded.
Supplies of solid fuel to these islands from the UK are therefore
included as part of United Kingdom inland consumption or
deliveries.
United States
USA
Includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
OECD Total
OECDTOT
Includes Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, the Czech

Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg,
Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
OECD Americas
OECDAM
Includes Canada, Chile, Mexico and the United States.
OECD Asia Oceania
OECDAO
Includes Australia, Israel, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
OECD Europe
OECDEUR
Includes Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark,

Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
The Netherlands excludes Suriname, Aruba, and the former

Netherlands Antilles (Curaao, Sint Maarten, and the special
municipalities of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba).
Includes the Azores and Madeira.
Includes the Canary Islands.

Does not include Liechtenstein.

Flow
Short name
Definition
IEA Total
IEATOT
Includes Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech

Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak
Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United
Kingdom and the United States.
IEA Americas
IEAAM
Includes Canada and the United States.
IEA Asia Oceania
IEAAO
Includes Australia, Japan, Korea and United States.
IEA Europe
IEAEUR
Includes Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,

Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak
Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United
Kingdom.
Algeria
ALGERIA
Angola
ANGOLA
Benin
BENIN
Botswana
BOTSWANA
Cameroon
CAMEROON
Congo
CONGO
Democratic Rep. of
Congo
CONGOREP
Cote d'Ivoire
COTEIVOIRE
Egypt
EGYPT
Data for Egypt are reported on a fiscal year basis. Data for 2011
are for 1 July 2011 - 30 June 2012.
Eritrea
ERITREA
Data for Eritrea are available from 1992. Prior to that, they are
included in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia includes Eritrea prior to 1992.
Gabon
GABON
Ghana
GHANA
Kenya
KENYA
Libya
LIBYA
Mauritius
MAURITIUS
Morocco
MOROCCO
Mozambique
MOZAMBIQUE
Namibia
NAMIBIA
Data for Botswana are available from 1981. Prior to that, they are
included in Other Africa.
Data for Namibia are available starting in 1991. Prior to that, data
are included in Other Africa.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Niger
NIGER
Data for Niger begin in 2000. Prior to that, data are included in
Other Africa.
Nigeria
NIGERIA
Senegal
SENEGAL
South Africa
SOUTHAFRIC
Sudan
SUDAN
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, and

has data from 2012 onwards. Prior to that, data are reported for a
combined Sudan.
South Sudan
SSUDAN
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, and

has data from 2012 onwards.
United Republic of
Tanzania
TANZANIA
Togo
TOGO
Tunisia
TUNISIA
Zambia
ZAMBIA
Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE
Other Africa
OTHERAFRIC
Includes Botswana (until 1980), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape

Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti,
Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho,
Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia (until
1990), Niger (until 1999), Reunion, Rwanda, Sao Tome and
Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland, Uganda,
and Western Sahara (from 1990).
Bangladesh
BANGLADESH
Data for Bangladesh are reported on a fiscal year basis. Data for
2011 are for 1 July 2011 - 30 June 2012.
Brunei
BRUNEI
Cambodia
CAMBODIA
Data for Cambodia are available starting in 1995. Prior to that, they
are included in Other Asia.
India
INDIA
Data for Egypt are reported on a fiscal year basis. Data for 2011
are for 1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012.
Indonesia
INDONESIA
DPR of Korea
KOREADPR
Malaysia
MALAYSIA
Mongolia
MONGOLIA
Myanmar
MYANMAR
Nepal
NEPAL
Data for Mongolia are available starting in 1985. Prior to that,

they are included in Other Asia.
Data for Nepal are reported on a fiscal year basis.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Pakistan
PAKISTAN
Philippines
PHILIPPINE
Singapore
SINGAPORE
Sri Lanka
SRILANKA
Chinese Taipei
TAIPEI
Thailand
THAILAND
Viet Nam
VIETNAM
Other Asia
OTHERASIA
Hong Kong (China)
HONGKONG
People's Republic of
China
CHINA
Albania
ALBANIA
Armenia
ARMENIA
Data for Armenia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they
are included in Former Soviet Union.
Azerbaijan
AZERBAIJAN
are included in Former Soviet Union
Belarus
BELARUS
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
BOSNIAHERZ
Data for Bosnia and Herzegovina are available starting in 1990. Prior
to that, they are included in Former Yugoslavia.
Bulgaria
BULGARIA
Croatia
CROATIA
Includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia (until 1994), Cook

Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Laos, Macao, Maldives,
Mongolia (until 1984), New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea,
Samoa, Solomon Islands, East Timor, Tonga and Vanuatu.
Data for Croatia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they are
included in Former Yugoslavia.

Flow
Short name
Definition
Cyprus
CYPRUS
Note by Turkey:
The information in this document with reference to Cyprus
relates to the southern part of the Island. There is no single
authority representing both Turkish and Greek Cypriot people on
the Island. Turkey recognises the Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus (TRNC). Until a lasting and equitable solution is found
within the context of United Nations, Turkey shall preserve its
position concerning the Cyprus issue.
Note by all the European Union Member States of the OECD
and the European Union:
The Republic of Cyprus is recognised by all members of the
United Nations with the exception of Turkey. The information in
this report relates to the area under the effective control of the
Government of the Republic of Cyprus.
Former Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia
FYROM
Data for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are available

starting in 1990. Prior to that, they are included in Former
Yugoslavia.
Georgia
GEORGIA
Data for Georgia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they
Gibraltar
GIBRALTAR
Kazakhstan
KAZAKHSTAN
Data for Kazakhstan are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

they are included in Former Soviet Union.
Kosovo
KOSOVO
Data for Kosovo are available starting in 2000. Between 1990 and
1999, data for Kosovo are included in Serbia. Prior to 1990, they
are included in Former Yugoslavia.
Kyrgyzstan
KYRGYZSTAN
Data for Kyrgyzstan are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

Latvia
LATVIA
Data for Latvia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they
are included in Former Soviet Union..
Lithuania
LITHUANIA
Data for Lithuania are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

Malta
MALTA
Republic of Moldova
MOLDOVA
Data for Moldova are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

Montenegro
MONTENEGRO
Data for Montenegro are available starting in 2005. Between 1990

and 2004, data for Montenegro are included in Serbia. Prior to 1990,
they are included in Former Yugoslavia.
Romania
ROMANIA
Russia
RUSSIA
Data for Russia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they

Flow
Short name
Definition
Serbia
SERBIA
Data for Serbia are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they are
included in Former Yugoslavia. Serbia includes Montenegro until
2004 and Kosovo until 1999.
Tajikistan
TAJIKISTAN
Data for Tajikistan are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

Turkmenistan
TURKMENIST
Data for Turkmenistan are available starting in 1990. Prior to

that, they are included in Former Soviet Union.
Ukraine
UKRAINE
Data for Ukraine are available starting in 1990. Prior to that, they are
included in Former Soviet Union.
Uzbekistan
UZBEKISTAN
Data for Uzbekistan are available starting in 1990. Prior to that,

Former Soviet Union

(if no detail)
FSUND
Before 1990, includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia,

Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of
Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine
and Uzbekistan.
Former Yugoslavia (if

no detail)
YUGOND
Before 1990, includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, the

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia
and Serbia.
Argentina
ARGENTINA
Bolivia
BOLIVIA
Brazil
BRAZIL
Colombia
COLOMBIA
Costa Rica
COSTARICA
Cuba
CUBA
Curaao / Netherlands
Antilles
CURACAO
Dominican Republic
DOMINICANR
Ecuador
ECUADOR
El Salvador
ELSALVADOR
Guatemala
GUATEMALA
Haiti
HAITI
Honduras
HONDURAS
Jamaica
JAMAICA
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA
The Netherlands Antilles comprised Aruba (until 1986), Curaao,

Sint Maarten and the special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint
Eustatius and Saba until 2010. Since 2010, Sint Eustatius is being
reported in Other non-OECD Americas, Curaao is being reported
here, and the special municipalities are NOT being reported under
the Netherlands..

Flow
Short name
Panama
PANAMA
Paraguay
PARAGUAY
Peru
PERU
Trinidad and Tobago
TRINIDAD
Uruguay
URUGUAY
Venezuela
VENEZUELA
Other Non-OECD
Americas
OTHERLATIN
Bahrain
BAHRAIN
Islamic Republic of
Iran
IRAN
Iraq
IRAQ
Jordan
JORDAN
Kuwait
KUWAIT
Lebanon
LEBANON
Oman
OMAN
Qatar
QATAR
Saudi Arabia
SAUDIARABI
Syria
SYRIA
United Arab Emirates
UAE
Yemen
YEMEN
Africa
AFRICA
Includes Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana (since 1981),

Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cte d'Ivoire,
Egypt, Eritrea (since 1992), Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya,
Libya, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia (since 1991),
Niger (since 2000), Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, South
Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia,
Zimbabwe and Other Africa.
Asia excluding China
ASIA
Includes Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia (since

1995), Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, DPR of Korea, Malaysia,
Mongolia (since 1985), Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Other Asia.
Definition
Includes Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados,

Belize, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands,
Dominica, the Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Grenada,
Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (for
natural gas and electricity), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia,
Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint
Maarten (since 2010), Suriname, and the Turks and Caicos
Islands.
Data are reported according to the Iranian calendar year. Data for
2011 correspond to 20 March 2011 19 March 2012.

Flow
Short name
Definition
China Region
CHINAREG
China Region includes the Peoples Republic of China and

Hong Kong, China.
Non-OECD Europe
and Eurasia
EURASIA
Includes Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Gibraltar, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Republic of Moldova,
Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Former Soviet Union,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Former
Yugoslavia.
Middle East
MIDDLEEAST
Includes Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait,

Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab
Emirates and Yemen.
Non-OECD Americas
LATINAMERI
Includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,

Curacao / Netherlands Antilles, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El
Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay,
Venezuela and Other Latin America.
Non-OECD Total
NONOECDTOT
World marine bunkers
WORLDMAR
World
WORLD
8. INTRODUCTION
IEA Coal Information 2015 is the latest edition of an
annual publication providing sound market information on coal to policy and market analysts and
those employed in all sectors of the coal industry.
This monitoring and reporting of historical trends and
current energy market situation provides a strong
foundation for policy and market analysis to better
inform the policy decision process toward selecting
policy instruments that are best suited to meet domestic and/or international objectives.
IEA Coal Information 2015 brings together in one
volume, statistics compiled by the IEA on coal supply, consumption, trade and prices for both member
and non-member countries 1 . It also includes information on coal by-products.
Part I provides important documentation that will
assist the reader in correctly using the data in this
publication and to understand the details of the statistical methodology and collection practices related
to the coal data.
Part II of the publication provides a review of world
coal market developments in 2013 and 20142. It covers world coal production and coal reserves, coal
consumption by type (total, steam, coking and lignite), and steam and coking coal trade and prices.
Part III provides the reference tables to the Part II review on coal production, consumption, trade and prices. It also includes some more specialised end-use
tables and selected charts.
1. This publication is without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty

over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and
boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. In addition,
the term country refers to a country or a territory, as the case may be.
2. With the exception of some pricing data, most data for 2014 are
provisional. Some provisional data, particularly for non-OECD economies, may have been estimated by the IEA Secretariat.
Part IV provides in tabular and graphic form, a more

detailed and comprehensive statistical picture of coal
developments in the 34 OECD member countries,
both by regional aggregate and individually. Detailed
information pertinent to specific countries has been
compiled these specificities are presented at the end
of Part IV, along with a weighted average of the
supply-side calorific values used for preparing national energy balances for each applicable fuel.
Part V provides summary statistics on world coal supply and end-use statistics. Coal balances and trade
(including partner) data for selected years are presented for 22 major non-OECD coal-producing and consuming countries and economies, in addition to several regional aggregates.
OECD data are taken from IEA/OECD databases of
Energy Statistics that are based on annual, quarterly
and monthly submissions from OECD Member countries to the secretariat. The Energy Data Centre of the
IEA secretariat works closely with national administration to secure consistency in all time series with
particular regard for IEA product definitions and reporting conventions. This effort is supplemented by
surveys of energy industry publications, national statistics reports and other material. The finalized data
provide the basis for IEA/OECD Energy Balances
of OECD Countries and Energy Statistics of OECD
Countries.
The non-OECD data are based upon information collected by the IEA secretariat, official national submissions to the United Nations in Geneva and New York,
and national energy publications. The resulting synthesis is published in Energy Balances of Non-OECD
Countries and Energy Statistics of Non-OECD Countries. Users of this publication are directed to the
Methodology section of those publications for more
detail on individual non-Member countries covered in

the publication.
Editorial and desktop publishing support from

Ms. Sharon Burghgraeve is also gratefully acknowledged.
OECD coal balances and statistics, including itemized

import and export data, are available on a CD-ROM,
along with world supply data. Information on ordering
the CD-ROM and other energy statistics publications
is available at the end of this book and on the IEA
website at www.iea.org/statistics.
Enquiries, comments and suggestions are most welcome and should be addressed to:
Price data in Parts II, III and IV are derived from the
quarterly publication Energy Prices and Taxes. Readers
should consult this IEA/OECD publication for detailed
information on methodology, data coverage and data
sources. Country notes and documentation are available
online in the Energy Prices and Taxes folder at:
http://wds.iea.org/WDS/.
Mr. Julian Smith or Mr. Vladimir Kubecek

Energy Data Centre,
International Energy Agency
9, rue de la Fdration
75739 Paris Cedex 15, France
Telephone: (+33) 1 40 57 66 31 or 1 40 57 65 41
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In addition, a data service is available on the internet,

which provides unlimited access through an annual
subscription, as well as the possibility to obtain data
on a pay-per-view basis. Details are available at
http://data.iea.org.
Further information on reporting methodologies is
also available on the IEA Web site.
Within the IEA secretariat, annual energy data are
collected by the Energy Data Centre (EDC), which is
headed by Mr. Duncan Millard, and previously by
Mr. Jean-Yves Garnier.
The IEA would like to thank and acknowledge the
dedication and professionalism of the statisticians
working on energy data within national administrations, without whose work, this publication would not
be possible.
OECD coal statistics in the EDC were the responsibility of Mr. Julian Smith and Mr. Hong Pum Chung,
whilst Ms. Urszula Ziebinska and Mr. Raphael Vial
contributed to Part II, Part III and Part V. Mr. Vladimir
Kubecek had overall responsibility for this publication.
Elsewhere within the EDC, essential data were obtained from the non-OECD Member countries section,
headed by Mr. Pierre Boileau, and the OECD Balances
section, headed by Ms. Roberta Quadrelli, who were
also responsible for the CO2 data and the energy economic indicators.
Also in the IEA secretariat, input from the Directorate
of Global Energy Economics was crucial to the compilation of this edition, while special thanks are also
due to the Gas, Coal and Power Markets Division and
Mr. Carlos Fernandez-Alvarez, Mr. Raimund Malischek
and Mr. Johannes Wagner for invaluable assistance.
9. DEFINITIONS
Energy sources
Coal
Coal is a family name for a variety of solid organic
fuels and refers to a whole range of combustible sedimentary rock materials spanning a continuous quality
scale. For convenience, this continuous series is often
divided into two main categories, which are themselves divided into two subcategories:
Hard coal
- Anthracite
- Bituminous coal
- Coking coal
- Other bituminous coal
Brown coal
- Sub-bituminous coal
- Lignite
In cases where data are presented in Mtoe or Mtce in
this book and sourced to OECD/IEA Energy Balances,
the term Coal includes all primary coal types listed
above, and coal products (patent fuel, coke oven coke,
gas coke, coal tar, BKB, coke oven gas, gas works
gas, blast furnace gas, and other recovered gases). For
simplicity in some cases, coal, peat for energy use,
peat products and oil shale and oil sands are shown
together as coal.
Classifying different types of coal into practical categories for use at an international level is difficult for
two reasons:
Divisions between coal categories vary between classification systems, both national and international,
based on calorific value, volatile matter content, fixed
carbon content, caking and coking properties, or some

combination of two or more of these criteria.
Although the relative value of the coals within a particular category depends on the degree of dilution by
moisture and ash and contamination by sulphur,
chlorine, phosphorous and certain trace elements, these
factors do not affect the divisions between categories.
Coal quality can vary and it is not always possible to
ensure that the available descriptive and analytical
information is truly representative of the body of coal
to which it refers.
The International Coal Classification of the Economic
Commission for Europe (UNECE) recognises two
broad categories of coal:
i) Hard coal: Coal of gross calorific value not less
than 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t) on an ash-free but
moist basis and with a mean random reflectance of
vitrinite of at least 0.6 percent.
ii) Brown coal: Non-agglomerating coal with a gross
calorific value less than 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t)
and with a mean random reflectance of vitrinite of
less than 0.6 percent.
The IEA has adopted the basis of these definitions of
hard coal and brown coal in this book and in other
publications for presenting statistics relating to coal
production, trade and consumption throughout the
history of these publications.
Over 20 international organisations including the International Energy Agency, Eurostat and the United
Nations Statistics Division have been collaborating
since 2005 under the umbrella of the Intersecretariat
Working Group on Energy Statistics (InterEnerStat)
to harmonise a collective energy vocabulary between
organisations and anticipate future needs. This work
was also to feed into the UNs International Recommendations for Energy Statistics:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/energy/ires/default.htm.
Changes to products and flows which were agreed
upon in 2010 have been incorporated into the 2012
questionnaires, making this publication the second
with the adopted changes.
The harmonised suite of product and energy flow definitions are available at:
http://www.iea.org/interenerstat_v2/meetings.asp.
It should be stressed that this classification system is
based on the inherent qualities of the coal in question
and not on the final use of the coal. In this way the
classification system attempts to be objective and
simple to apply, which should also minimise the differences between reported data from consumer and
producer nations or producers and consumers on a
national basis.
Some countries however may still choose to report
consumption by classification based on or guided by
usage, so data presented in this book may differ from
those presented in the national publications of individual countries because the countries may have
adopted a different coal classification and reporting
system that better suits their particular national needs.
As far as possible, national coal statistics reported by
the IEA in this book and in other publications have
been adjusted to be consistent with the IEA definitions noted above, however this may not always be
the case.
In order to improve the information base for coal
market analysis and projections, these two main categories of coal have been further sub-divided in
IEA/OECD Coal Statistics from 1978 as follows:
Hard coal
Hard coal is calculated as the sum of anthracite and all
bituminous coals.
Anthracite is a high-rank, hard coal used mainly
for industrial and residential heat raising.
Bituminous coal is a medium- to high-rank coal
used for gasification, industrial coking and heat
raising and residential heat raising:
- Bituminous coal that can be used in the production of a porous coke capable of supporting a
blast furnace charge is known as coking coal.
- Other bituminous coal, not included under coking coal, may also be commonly known as
thermal coal; however this less formal grouping
increasingly tends to include a range of brown
coals. Also included in other bituminous coal

statistics are recovered slurries, middlings and
other low-grade, higher-rank coal products not
further classified by type.
Due to the differing nature of the criteria for these
coal types, in some cases it is possible to fulfil some,
but not all criteria. In this case a judgement call needs
to be made. As a general rule, para-bituminous and
ortho-bituminous coals tend to be classed as other
bituminous coal despite failing to meet one of the calorific or vitrinite mean random reflectance criteria
requisite for hard coal classification.
Primary coal used in pulverised (or granular) coal
injection in blast furnaces is commonly abbreviated to
PCI (or GCI) coal. (In this book PCI includes GCI).
The IEA does not have a separate product classification for PCI as the term defines a particular end-use
for coal. In IEA statistics, PCI is generally included in
steam coal, with the exception of Japan, Korea, the
Netherlands, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Turkey (for
some years) and the United Kingdom, where it is included with coking coal. This also means that production and trade of PCI suitable coal are not available in
this book.
Note: In editions prior to Coal Information 2014, for
the following countries, hard coal data also contained
sub-bituminous coal: Australia, Belgium, Chile,
Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New
Zealand, Portugal and the United States. Prior to
1978, where only hard coal and brown coal are
available as classification breakdowns, hard coal
data for these countries may still contain subbituminous coal data.
Brown coal
Brown coal is calculated as the sum of subbituminous coal and lignite. Until Coal Information
2013, oil shale mined and combusted directly was
reported as lignite, while shale oil was reported as
other hydrocarbons in Oil Information. Since the 2014
edition, oil shale and oil sands have their own category, while shale oil continues to be reported as other
hydrocarbons in Oil Information.
Definitions for sub-bituminous coal and lignite are as
follows:
Sub-bituminous coal: non-agglomerating coals
with a gross calorific value between 4 777 kcal/kg
(20 GJ/t) and 5 732 kcal/kg (24 GJ/t) on an ashfree but moist basis.
Lignite: non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value less than 4 777 kcal/kg (20 GJ/t) on an
ash-free but moist basis.
Coke oven coke
Note: In the 2014 edition, the calorific floor for subbituminous coal (on an adjusted basis) has been
raised from 4 165 kcal/kg to 4 777 kcal/kg. Very little
product reclassification from sub-bituminous coal to
lignite has occurred as a result of this change in
requirements.
Coke oven coke is the solid product obtained from the

carbonisation of coal, principally coking coal, at high
temperature. Semi-coke, the solid product obtained
from the carbonisation of coal at lower temperatures
is also included, along with coke and semi-coke made
from lignite. Cokes obtained from other sources such
as process residues or flue gas precipitation may also
be shown here.
Steam Coal
Gas coke
In addition to the other coal aggregates, we also provide data for steam coal. While coking coal tends to
have more specific applications, a more general use of
coal is combustion to provide heat, often with the specific use of raising steam in a boiler.
Gas coke is a solid by-product of coal used for the

production of town gas in gas works. Gas coke is used
for heating purposes.
Steam coal in this publication contains all anthracite,

other bituminous coal and sub-bituminous coal, but
not lignite or coking coal.
Patent fuel is a composition fuel manufactured from

coal fines by shaping with the addition of a binding
agent such as pitch.
Prior to the 2012 publication, all hard coals that were

not coking coal (including the sub-bituminous coal
from the excepted countries listed above) were classed
as steam coal. This also included by necessity countries (not listed) where sub-bituminous coal was unable to be separated from other bituminous coal data
for reporting purposes.
For the Coal Information 2012 publication onwards,
the definition of steam coal was adjusted to include all
sub-bituminous coals. This move was done to achieve
greater congruence with practical, formal and informal definitions of steam (thermal) coal in the market
and coal industry at large.
The definitions of hard coal and brown coal as aggregates in terms of their component parts remain unchanged and consistent with the UNECE guidelines
above and InterEnerStat definitions. This means hard
coal can no longer be calculated by adding steam coal
data to coking coal data.
Coal products
The primary coal types mentioned above may be directly consumed or transformed into another fuel or
energy source. Derived solid fuels and liquids are
products resulting from the transformation from hard
coal, brown coal or other primary solid fuels, sometimes with the addition of other materials.
Patent fuel
Brown coal briquettes (BKB)

BKB are composition fuels manufactured from brown
coal. The brown coal is crushed, dried and moulded
under high pressure into an even shaped briquette,
generally without the addition of binders. Dried
brown coke, fines and dust and brown coal breeze are
also included here.
Coal tar
Coal tar is the liquid by-product of the destructive
distillation of bituminous coal to make coke in the
coke oven process. Coal tar can also be the result of
low-temperature carbonisation of brown coal. Coal tar
can be further distilled into different organic products
(e.g. benzene, toluene, naphthalene), the process of
which normally would be reported in consumption as
a feedstock to the petrochemical industry.
Quite a few countries are currently unable to report
coal tar data. For these countries, coke oven transformation losses will likely appear larger than they actually are, while consumption data will obviously be
missing from the relevant end-use sector.
Manufactured Gases
Manufactured gases created outside of refineries,
sourced primarily from solid hydrocarbons are reported
on the coal questionnaire. They include purpose built
products like gas works gas, whose manufacture is the

main purpose of the transformation process, and products like coke oven gas and blast furnace gas which are
useful energy by-products of another process.
Coke oven gas

Coke oven gas is obtained as a by-product of solid
fuel carbonisation and gasification operations carried
out by coke producers and iron and steel plants. It is calorifically rich, and when cleaned is predominantly H2.
Gas works gas

Gas works gas covers all types of gas produced in
public utility or private plants, whose main purpose is
the manufacture, transport and distribution of gas,
regardless of process. It includes gas produced by
carbonisation (potentially including gas produced by
coke ovens and transferred to gas works), by total
gasification (with or without enrichment from oil
products) and by reforming and simple mixing of gases, which may include air.
Coal seam gas is reported on the natural gas questionnaire as colliery gas, as most likely will be the case
for underground coal gasification (UGC).
Note: In terms of aggregated data for fossil-fuel families, starting with the 2011 edition, gas works gas is
included as a coal product for the years 1990 and
beyond. Before 1990, gas works gas is included with
natural gas.
Blast furnace gas

Blast furnace gas is obtained as a by-product from
operating blast furnaces. It is recovered upon leaving
the furnace and used partly within the plant and partly
in other steel industry processes; or used in power
stations equipped to burn it. It is mainly nitrogen (N2),
with roughly equal amounts of carbon dioxide and
carbon monoxide, and will contain other trace gases.
Off gases from direct reduced iron and other similar
processes may also be reported here.

Other recovered gases were previously known as oxygen steel furnace gas, which is most commonly obtained as a by-product of the production of steel in an
oxygen-fired furnace; and is recovered upon leaving
the furnace. This gas can also be known as converter
gas, LD gas or BOS gas. Other off-gases of similar
nature (generally free of N2) are also reported in this
category, hence the change of name to be intrinsically

more inclusive of other processes, metallurgy and
industries.
Peat
A solid formed from the partial decomposition of
dead vegetation under conditions of high humidity
and limited air access (initial stage of coalification). It
is available in two main forms for use as a fuel - sod
peat and milled peat. Peat is not considered a renewable
resource as its regeneration period is considerable.
Peat has a considerable amount of non-energy purposes. Non-energy consumption, and production of peat
which is consumed in non-energy use are not included
in IEA peat statistics.
Peat products
Sod peat can be pressed into briquettes. Milled peat
can also be made into briquettes or pellets for fuel use.
Briquettes are significantly denser and contain much
less water, so have a higher calorific value than peat.
They can be used on residential or industrial scale.

Oil shale should not be confused with shale oil. Shale
oil (often obtained by in situ thermally enhanced mining practices) is reported as an oil product.
Oil shale is a sedimentary rock which contains organic matter in the form of kerogen a waxy hydrocarbon-rich material regarded as a precursor of petroleum. In solid form, it contains more inert matter than
coal, while the sand in oil sands may often be in the
form of sandstone. Oil shale may be burned directly,
or retorted to extract shale oil, the process of which is
reported as coal liquefaction transformation.
Regarding the data as marshalled by the EDC, while
supply and demand data for oil shale and oil sands
exist in the Coal Information publication, data for
shale oil (as part of Other hydrocarbons) exist in the
Oil Information publication. Whether this is the result
of in-situ extraction technologies (Oil Information
only); transformation of oil shale via liquefaction
technologies (inputs exist in Coal Information, outputs in Oil Information, combined with other data); or
deeming that primary supply begins with the saleable
product and that therefore, above-ground retorts are
part of the extraction process rather than a transformation process, thereby treating the second case as the
first.
Shale gas, like colliery gas, is not reported on the Solid Fossil-fuels and Manufactured Gases questionnaire
or included in this publication, but is included in the
Natural Gas Information publication.
The energy balance flows detailed below have the

following functions, and may also appear in other
tables:
Historical production and consumption of oil shale

and oil sands occurred to varying degrees in a wider
range of countries than are currently reporting data.
Supply
Heat and electricity

Data for electricity and heat includes disaggregated data
on inputs and outputs of combined heat and power and
on district heating. Data on heat became available in
different years for different countries and thus aggregated country data should be used with caution.
Total electricity production includes production from
both main activity producers (formerly known as public) and autoproducers. Generally, the split of total
electricity production between main activity producers
and autoproducers is available only after 1973.
Flows: energy balance

Coal balances are presented in detail in Parts IV
and V. In Part IV, Table 5 presents uses in the rows
and selected years in the columns. Data are presented
in millions of tonnes of coal equivalent (Mtce). One
tonne of coal equivalent is 7 million kilocalories.
Each table is divided into three main parts: the first
shows supply elements such as trade and production,
the second shows the transformation processes and
energy industries, while the third shows final consumption broken down into various end-use sectors.
Both primary fuels such as coal and peat, and derived
fuels such as coke oven coke and blast furnace gas are
included in the calculations. However, derived products manifest themselves as positive outputs in the
relevant transformation process used to create them.
Generally they should be less than the inputs, which
result in a net negative entry in the transformation
flow. Given that this balance is restricted to coal and
associated products, inputs from other fuel types (such
as pitch for patent fuels, or oil, gas and renewable
inputs to blast furnaces) are not shown, nor is electricity generated, which differs from a full energy
balance.
Production
Production is the production of primary energy,
i.e. hard coal, brown coal, peat, shale oil, etc. Production is calculated after the removal of impurities on
the bases which it is provided for sale. It is important
to note that derived products such as coke oven coke
and patent fuel, while included in the balances, do not
appear in production as they are not primary products.
Imports and exports

Imports and exports comprise amounts having
crossed the national territorial boundaries of the country, whether or not customs clearance has taken place.
Coal in transit to another country should not be included here. Both primary and secondary products are
reported.
Stock changes
Stock changes reflects the difference between opening
stock levels on the first day of the year and closing
levels on the last day of the year of stocks on national
territory held by producers, importers, energy transformation industries and large consumers. A stock
build is shown as a negative number and a stock draw
as a positive number. It is presented this way as this is
how it affects the domestic supply, as opposed to how
it describes the changes in stocks.
Total primary energy supply

Total primary energy supply (TPES) consists of production + imports - exports stock changes as an abstract concept. Given that exports and stock builds
both are represented as negative numbers, in reality
TPES = production + imports + exports + stock
changes. Marine and aviation bunkers also are not
counted in TPES.
Statistical differences
Statistical differences includes the sum of the unexplained statistical differences for individual fuels, as
they appear in the basic energy statistics. It also includes the statistical differences that arise because of
the variety of conversion factors in the coal and oil
columns. See the introduction to Energy Statistics of

OECD Countries for further details.
been described earlier in the Energy sources section or

are mentioned below.
For countries that are unable to collect stock change

data, stock builds and draws will contribute to statistical differences.
Electricity and heat generation
Transformation processes record the transformation of
one kind of fuel or energy into another with both inputs and outputs being measured. This may bridge
several transformation processes. For instance:
Coking coal used to manufacture coke oven coke
would be reported as a negative input to the coke oven
transformation process.
The resulting coke oven coke, coal tar and coke
oven gas would be reported as a positive output to
the coke oven transformation process flow.
Energy inputs from other sources, including electricity, will not be reported in this particular instance of an exclusive coal and coal products balance. Therefore, numbers may not be indicative of
true efficiencies, but rather map the flow of coal.
The coke oven coke will largely be used to produce pig-iron in a blast furnace. Therefore, it will
be reported where it is used mainly as an input to
the blast furnace transformation process.
The by-product blast furnace gas will appear as an
output in the blast furnace transformation flow.
However, a significant amount of energy is lost in
the process of making the pig-iron, so the net
negative value in the blast furnace transformation
flow will tend to be approximately 60% of the total energy inputs.
The blast furnace gas (and coal tar and coke oven
gas) will likewise be reported where used. Some of
this will appear in the relevant consumption flows,
other parts might be used to generate electricity
and appear in electricity transformation.
In a complete energy balance, the electricity generated would be converted to the appropriate energy unit and reported as a positive output in the applicable electricity transformation flow. This is not
the case in the coal balance, so the number displayed in the electricity transformation flow is the
fuel input, not the process efficiency loss.
The main transformation processes reported either
create a derived coal product or by-product, and have
Electricity and heat generation can refer to electricity

plants, combined heat and power plants (CHP), or
heat plants. Both main activity producer 1 and autoproducer2 plants are included here.
Electricity plants are plants which are designed to
produce electricity only. If one or more units of the
plant is a CHP unit (and the inputs and outputs cannot
be distinguished on a unit basis), then the whole plant
is designated as a CHP plant.
Note that for autoproducer CHP plants, all fuel inputs
used to generate electricity are taken into account.
However, only the part of the fuel inputs used to produce the heat that is sold is shown. Fuel inputs for the
production of heat that is consumed within the autoproducer's establishment are not included here but are
included in the final consumption of fuels in the
appropriate consumption sector.
Heat plants (including heat pumps and electric boilers) are designed to produce heat only, which is sold
to a third party under the provisions of a contract.
Heat pumps that are operated within the residential
sector, where the heat is not sold, are not considered a
transformation process and are not included here, despite the fact that equivalent electricity consumption
will appear as residential use.
Other transformation
Other transformation covers non-specified transformation and transformations not shown elsewhere,
such as coal liquefaction.
Energy industry own use

Energy industry own use contains the primary and
secondary energy consumed by transformation industries for heating, pumping, traction and lighting purposes [ISIC3 05, 06, 19 and 35, Group 091 and Classes 0892 and 0721]. These quantities are shown as
1. Main activity producer generate electricity and/or heat for sale to

third parties, as their primary activity. They may be privately or publicly owned. Note that the sale need not take place through the public
grid.
2. Autoproducer undertakings generate electricity and/or heat, wholly
or partly for their own use as an activity which supports their primary
activity. They may be privately or publicly owned.
3. International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic
Activities, Series M, No. 4 / Rev. 4, United Nations, New York, 2008.
negative figures. Included here is, for example, own

use of energy in coal mines.
Iron and steel
ISIC Group 241 and

Class 2431
Chemical and
petrochemical industry
ISIC Divisions 20 and 21,

excluding petrochemical
feedstocks
Non-ferrous metals
ISIC Group 242 and Class

2432
Consumption
Non-metallic minerals
Total final consumption (TFC) is the sum of consumption by the different end-use sectors.
ISIC Division 23, such as

glass, ceramic, cement, etc.
Transport equipment
ISIC Divisions 29 and 30
Machinery
ISIC Divisions 25 to 28,

comprises fabricated metal
products, machinery and
equipment other than
transport equipment
Mining (excluding fuels)

and quarrying
ISIC Divisions 07 and 08 and

Group 099
Food and tobacco
ISIC Divisions 10 to 12
Paper, pulp and printing
ISIC Divisions 17 and 18
Wood and wood products
ISIC Division 16, other than

pulp and paper
Construction
Textile and leather
Non-specified
ISIC Divisions 22, 31 and 32,

any manufacturing industry
not included above
Losses
Losses includes losses in gas distribution, flaring or
venting of manufactured gases, electricity transmission and coal transport.
Industry consumption is specified in the following

sub-sectors. Note that energy used for transport by
industry is not included here but is reported under
transport.
Also note that if a particular industry makes another
energy product, either as part of the industrial process
(e.g. coke oven coke manufacture in an integrated iron
and steel plant), or as an autoproducer (which may still
be part of the industrial process), consumption does not
appear within the particular industry, but instead appears within the relevant transformation flow.
Note: Most countries have

difficulties supplying an
industrial breakdown for all
fuels. In these cases, the
non-specified industry row
has been used. Regional
aggregates of industrial
consumption should therefore
be used with caution.
Non-energy use covers those fuels that are used as

raw materials in the different sectors and are not consumed as a fuel or transformed into another fuel.
Transport includes all fuels used for the transport
[ISIC Divisions 49 to 51] of goods or persons between
points of departure and destination within the national
territory irrespective of the economic sector within
which the activity occurs.
Other covers residential, commercial and public services [ISIC Divisions 33, 36-39, 45-47, 52, 53, 55, 56,
58-66, 68-75, 77-82, 84 (excluding Class 8422), 8588, 90-96 and 99], agriculture/forestry [ISIC DiviINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
sions 01 and 02], fishing [ISIC Division 03] and nonspecified consumption.
Coal resources and

reserves
Quantifying mineable coal is based on a consideration
of geological, mining and economic criteria. The
amount of coal in place and, in some cases, the
amount of mineable coal is influenced by national
resource measurement criteria. The basis for computing these resources varies from country to country
and, therefore, it must be borne in mind that for this
reason, direct comparisons are sometimes not possible. During the 1990s, there was a considerable discussion on the adoption of internationally recognised
standards for reporting reserves. This largely stems
from the requirements of capital markets for improved
transparency in reserve estimation where project financing is being sought. However, to date, while there
has been adoption of some international recommendations incorporated into national or regional standards,
there has not been the adoption of one set of universal
international standards. There are, however, some
generally recognised definitions that can be applied.
Resources
Resources refer to the amount of coal that may be
present in a deposit or a coalfield subject to some
broad restrictions as to its viability as a potential resource. Resources can be measured, indicated or inferred, based upon the level of understanding.
Calculation of total resources does not take into account the feasibility of mining the coal under current
technological and economic conditions. Not all resources are recoverable using current technology, and
not all resources are recoverable under current market
conditions.
Reserves constitute that subset of resources that are
either known to be recoverable, or estimated to be recoverable with a medium to high level of confidence.
Reserves
Reserves may be defined further in terms of proved
(or measured) reserves, and probable (or indicated)
reserves, based on exploration results and the degree
of confidence in those results. Probable reserves have
been estimated with a lower degree of confidence than
proved reserves. Estimates take account of coalfields

geological characteristics, in particular the regularity,
thickness and quality of seams, the spacing of exploration boreholes and other exposures, and geological
discontinuities such as faults or folding, all of which
affect the practical recoverability of the coal.
Proved reserves
Proved reserves are those reserves that are not only
confidently considered to be recoverable, but can also
be recovered economically under current market conditions. In other words, they take into account what
current mining technology can achieve, as well as the
economics of recovery (mining, transportation and
other relevant recovery costs, such as government
royalties, and coal prices). Proved reserves will,
therefore, fluctuate according to economic pressures,
especially price.
Units and conversions

Balance units
Most IEA/OECD publications showing inter-fuel relations and projections present such information in a
common energy unit, the tonne of oil equivalent (toe).
A tonne of oil equivalent is defined as 107 kcal
(41.868 GJ), a convenient measure because it is approximately the net heat content of one ton of average
crude oil. This unit is used by the IEA/OECD in the
majority of its energy balances.
The change from using the original unit to tonne of oil
equivalent implies choosing coefficients of equivalence between different forms and sources of energy.
This problem can be approached in many different
ways. For example, one could adopt a single equivalence for each major primary energy source in all
countries, e.g. 29 307 kJ/kg (7 000 kcal/kg) for hard
coal, 41 868 kJ/kg (10 000 kcal/kg) for oil.
The main objection to this method is that it results in
distortions since there is a wide spread in calorific
values between types of coal and individual coal
products, and between calorific values of these fuels
in different countries.
The secretariat has, therefore, obtained specific calorific factors supplied by the national administrations
for the main categories of each quality of coal and for
each main flow or use (i.e. production, imports, exports, electricity generation, coke ovens, blast furnaces and industry). The supply side average of this particular set of national calorific values, that allow for
the conversion of energy sources from original (physical) units to joules, are presented later in Part I.
The balances are expressed in terms of net calorific
value. The difference between net and gross predominantly being the latent heat of vaporisation of any
moisture and the water produced during combustion
of any hydrogen within the fuel. For coal and oil
products, net calorific value is usually around 5% less
than gross, and for most forms of hydrogen-rich natural and manufactured gas, the difference is 9-10%.
The use of net calorific value is consistent with the
practice of the Statistical Offices of the European
Communities and the United Nations.
Note that throughout this publication, 1 tonne means
1 metric tonne or 1000 kg. Billion refers to 1 thousand
million (109). Also, in many cases, totals shown in the
tables may not be the exact sum of their components
due to independent rounding.
Conversion (to toe and tce)

In this report some data are reported in terms of tonnes
of coal equivalent (tce) because this unit is more
widely used in the international coal industry. A tonne
of coal equivalent is defined as 7 million kilocalories
(29.3076 GJ). The relation between tonne of oil
equivalent (toe) and tonne of coal equivalent (tce) is

therefore:
1 tce = 0.7 toe
Units for gases

In the IEA/OECD publication Energy Statistics of
OECD Countries all data on gases are expressed in
terajoules (TJ), on the basis of their gross calorific
value.
1 terajoule = 0.00002388 Mtoe.
To calculate the net heat content of a gas from its
gross heat content, multiply the gross heat content by
the appropriate following factor:
Gas
Natural gas
Gas works gas
Coke oven gas
Blast furnace gas
Ratio of NCV to GCV

0.9
0.9
0.9
1.0
1.0
Please note that this means in order to calculate gross

from net, if necessary, you must divide the net value
by 0.9 (rather than multiply by 1.1).
10. SOURCES AND NOTES

General notes
Energy data for OECD countries are submitted to the IEA
secretariat in a common reporting format and methodology to allow for international comparisons to be made.
Energy data for member countries reported for 2014
(shown as 2014p) are provisional data based on the
submissions received in early 2015 and on quarterly
submissions to the IEA. In some instances it has been
necessary for the IEA to estimate some data; explanations of these estimates are provided in the country
notes. Final 2014 data on solid fuels and manufactured gases will be submitted by OECD Member
countries to the secretariat in annual questionnaires in
late 2015. As a result, final data for 2014 and provisional 2015 data will be published in the 2016 edition
of Coal Information.
Qualifiers
Data marked as e are estimates of the IEA secretariat. Data marked as c mean that the data are confidential due to country specific regulations. Data
marked as .. mean that data are not available (either
not collected or not submitted by national government). Data marked as x mean that the data point is
not applicable or there is no meaningful explanation
of a value there. For example, the price cannot be
shown if the consumption in the country is forbidden
or the country itself did not exist as an independent
entity at a given point in time. The year marked as p
(e.g. 2014p) refers to provisional data.
Treatment of blast furnace coke and PCI data
Provisional 2014 data 2014p
Data on coke used in and pulverised coal injected into

blast furnaces (PCI), are harmonized for all OECD
countries in order to ensure that blast furnace transformation data are consistently presented and that
comparisons between countries for consumption are
meaningful. The main effect of these revisions has
been, where necessary, to revise the reported consumption of coal in the iron and steel industry and in
blast furnace transformation, so discrepancies between IEA and national accounts may ensue. In effect,
inputs to blast furnaces may be calibrated to be proportionate to production of blast furnace gas and some
inputs to blast furnace consumption may be reported
as consumption in the iron and steel industry if there
are lower than normal outputs of blast furnace gas.
Selected coal data for 2014 for some non-OECD

countries have been estimated by the secretariat, as is
the case for three OECD countries: Chile, Iceland and
Israel. Some 2014p data points for Canada, Germany,
Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey and the United
States are also estimated by the secretariat. Specific
details exist in Part IV: Country Notes.
It should be noted that in IEA statistics of coal trade

and consumption, PCI is not separately specified as a
product in its own right. Rather it is included in some
form of hard coal. This methodology is based on the
fact that pulverised coal injection is a process, and this
process, unlike for coke oven coke manufacture, is
somewhat independent of coal type.
Statistics of non-OECD countries presented in this

publication are based on available data at the time of
publishing and may differ from the final non-OECD
data to be published in Energy Statistics of NonOECD Countries.
Additional information on methodologies and reporting conventions are included in the notes in Energy
Balances of OECD Countries 2015 edition and
Energy Statistics of OECD Countries 2015 edition.
For Japan and Korea, PCI consumption is reported in

this book as a coking coal in order to be consistent
with the national practice of including imports of PCI
coal with coking coal without regard to coal type.
Other countries that report usage of coking coal as
inputs to blast furnaces (the Netherlands, Poland, the
Slovak Republic, Turkey and the United Kingdom)
may do so for this reason, or because of the respective
coal quality.
Peoples Republic of China

Estimations of Chinas 2013 energy data
Due to the need to integrate findings from a national
economic census, the National Bureau of Statistics
has not provided data to IEA for the 2015 edition
(2013 statistical year). In order to compile an energy
balance for the IEA publications it was necessary to
perform estimations of Chinas energy production,
transformation and consumption. Estimations were
primarily based on announced growth rates between
2012 and 2013 or available data which could allow
the calculation of a growth rate. Where growth rates
of energy products were not available, growth rates of
GDP were typically used.
Great care should be taken when calculating growth
trends for energy products or flows between 2012 and
2013, since historical data have not been modified to
take into account any findings from Chinas economic
census. Once these revisions are available from Chinas National Bureau of Statistics, historical data will
be updated accordingly, which will lead to more reliable growth trends.
The general approach to making the estimations for
2013 is as follows:
Production quantities have been estimated using
growth trends from the NBS statistical communiqu;
Trade quantities have been estimated using growth
trends from available trade data.
Inputs to power generation have been estimated
using growth trends in electricity generation;
Inputs to coke ovens have been estimated using
coke production trends;
Other consumption data have been estimated using
available supply and split using the consumption
pattern of 2012.
Calorific values were also revised for bituminous coal
in this edition. Net calorific values (NCV) for coal
inputs to power generation were modified from 2008

to 2013 by applying assumptions used by China on
the average thermal efficiency of coal-fired power
stations in these years. NCVs were also modified for
bituminous coal production from 2008 to 2013. These
NCVs were calculated as the implied calorific values
used by China in converting its commodity balance to
energy units.
Time series revisions in the 2014 edition

In 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) revised the format and detail of their energy balance.
New expanded questionnaires have allowed for data
collection at a more detailed level than in previous
years for some products and flows. However, the increase in data availability has not been completely
uniform, with more information for energy supply
than for energy demand. This may lead to increased
statistical differences for some products from 2010 to
2012, in particular for coal.
Lignite imports may not be captured in the China National Energy Balance. In this edition, secondary
source data for lignite imports have been incorporated
into imports of other bituminous coal for 2010 to
2012.
In this edition, diesel consumption in road transportation from 2000 to 2012 was revised based on information on the definition for diesel consumption in
various sectors. Portions of consumption in the residential and the commercial and public services sectors
were allocated to road transportation consumption to
conform to the definitions for the respective consumption flows used by this publication.
Coal to liquids output was estimated based on projected production slate of operational coal-to-liquid
plants.
Electricity production from pumped storage hydro
was reported from 2010 to 2012.
Methodology
A collaborative effort between NBS and IEA continues, with the objective of providing additional detail
on energy production, transformation and consumption of all five different types of coal (e.g. anthracite,
coking coal, other bituminous, sub-bituminous and
lignite). At the moment NBS only provides quantities
of raw coal and washed coal in their energy balances
and the IEA secretariat has attributed these quantities
to coking coal and other bituminous coal. It is expected
that the continuing work to provide disaggregated data
on the five different coals will result in greater detail

in future editions.
airplanes and ships, regardless of whether they are

foreign- or China-owned.
Since 2010, imports and exports of cleaned coal are

no longer reported in the national energy balance of
China. The IEA secretariat has used secondary
sources of information to report this coking coal trade
and corresponding quantities have been removed from
bituminous coal trade. Consumption of this coking
coal is assumed to be in coke ovens.
In the 2012 edition, new information became available on natural gas consumption in public transportation in China. This new consumption was added to the
natural gas time series to ensure proper coverage of
the transport sector.
The IEA data of coal stocks for the years 1985 and
1990 as well as coal production for the years 19971999 are estimates and do not represent official data
released by the Chinese government. Those estimates
were based on the assumption that coal consumption
statistics are more reliable than coal production statistics and that the production-consumption relationship
should maintain a balance over time.
Also as a result of the change in Chinas National Energy Balance in 2012, other revisions in the 2014 edition may lead to breaks in series between 2009 and
2010. These include new information on:
coal inputs to coal-to-liquids facilities,
coal tar inputs to petroleum refining,
fuel consumption in natural gas liquefaction
plants.
In addition, for the 2013 cycle, greater use has been
made of data from revised energy balances that were
previously submitted by NBS to the IEA. This change
has resulted primarily in increased coking coal and
other bituminous coal production data for the years
2000 to 2007.
New information in 2012 also became available from
NBS on the production and consumption of gangue, a
mining waste product that has been classified as industrial waste in the IEA energy balances. This quantity
of industrial waste is not likely to represent the only
combustion of industrial waste in China, however,
information is not available to provide more complete
data on this activity.
In 2012, NBS stopped reporting coal tar trade and
non-energy consumption. IEA secretariat estimates
have been used to approximate coal tar imports and
non-energy consumption from 2010 to 2012.
In 2012, new information became available on how
NBS accounts for international aviation and marine
bunkers in the Chinas national energy balance. Previously international flights by Chinese airlines and ships
had been excluded. A revised methodology was implemented that now includes fuel use for international
Time series for liquid biofuels, biogases, wind (prior

to 2010), geothermal, solar photovoltaic and solar
thermal generation are based on tertiary sources of
information and IEA secretariat estimates. None of
these time series are reported in the national energy
balance of China.
Observations
In recent years, China has reported large increases in
stocks for crude oil, oil products and for different
types of coal. These stock increases are seen as consistent with trends in economic growth and development in China; however, information is currently
lacking on the scale of the infrastructure available for
this magnitude of stock increases.
Data for coal trade in this publication may not match
data from secondary sources of information.
Sources for 2013 estimations:

Statistical Communiqu of the People's Republic of
China on the National Economic and Social Development: Output of Major Industrial Products and the
Growth Rates, National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing,
various editions up to 2015.
Basic Statistical Data Power Industry, China Electricity Council, various editions up to 2013.
Joint Organisations Data Initiative: Oil, International
Energy Forum, Riyadh World Primary and World
Secondary databases, March, 2015 edition.
Joint Organisations Data Initiative: Gas, International Energy Forum, Riyadh, Gas World database,
March, 2015 edition.
China Coal Monthly, IHS McCloskey, Issue 121,
February, 2014.
China Petroleum Monthly, Argus Publishing, Volume
VIII, Issue 2, February, 2014.
Sources 1990 to 2013:

China Energy Statistical Yearbook, National Bureau
of Statistics, Beijing, various editions up to 2013.
Direct communication with the China National Renewable Energy Centre (CNREC), National Energy
Administration (NEA), Beijing.
Solar Heat Worldwide, AEE - Institute for Sustainable
Technologies, Gleisdorf, various editions up to 2015.
China Electricity Council, online statistics, various
editions up to 2012.
Trends in Photovoltaic Applications, International
Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme, 2013 edition.
European Photovoltaic Industry Association, Global
Market Outlook for Photovoltaics 2013-2017,
Figure 1: Evolution of global cumulative installed
capacity 2000-2021, May 2014.
Zhang G., Report on Chinas Energy Development
2010, Chinas National Energy Administration,
Beijing, editions 2009 to 2011.
Zheng et. al, Steady Industrialized Development of
Geothermal Energy in China: Country Update Report,
Beijing, 2005-2009.
Lund et. al, Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy
2010 Worldwide Review, World Geothermal Congress,
Bali, 2010.
The Global Biodiesel Balance for 2012 and 2013,
World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, F.O. Lichts, London, Vol. 11 No. 16, Apr. 23, 2013.
Other sources
Quarterly energy statistics
Readers who are interested in more recent data should
consult the OECD/IEA publication Oil, Gas, Coal and
Electricity Quarterly Statistics which is published in
January, April, July and October each year.
This book provides current, accurate and detailed statistics on quarterly production, supply and demand
and trade of the major energy forms mainly in, but not
limited to, the OECD area.
Coal quarterly data include

World steam and coking coal, and lignite production;
World steam coal and coking coal trade; and
Coking coal and steam coal imports and exports
for major OECD countries.
OECD Main Economic Indicators

OECD Main Economic Indicators is a monthly compilation of a range of indicators on recent economic
developments for the 34 OECD member countries.
Please refer to this publication for detailed notes regarding the selected indicators.
Price data
Sources up to 1990:
Energy prices are published quarterly in the IEA/

OECD Energy Prices and Taxes, where complete
notes on prices may be obtained.
Electric Industry in China in 1987, Ministry of Water

Resources and Electric Power, Department of Planning, Beijing, 1988.
IEA data on coal prices are managed in two subsystems, which vary not only in content, but also with
respect to the data collection methods.
Outline of Rational Utilization and Conservation of

Energy in China, Bureau of Energy Conservation
State Planning Commission, Beijing, June 1987.
Import and export unit values
IEA secretariat estimates.
China Coal Industry Yearbook, Ministry of Coal Industry, People's Republic of China, Beijing, 1983,
1984, 1985 and 2000.
Energy in China 1989, Ministry of Energy, People's
Republic of China, Beijing, 1990.
China: A Statistics Survey 1975-1984, State Statistical
Bureau, Beijing, 1985.
China Petro-Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) Annual Report, SINOPEC, Beijing, 1987.
Almanac of China's Foreign Economic Relations and
Trade, The Editorial Board of the Almanac, Beijing, 1986.
Import and export unit values are calculated quarterly

(March, June, September and December) from national customs statistics import and export volumes and
values. The basic data are collected from monthly
national trade sources (Chile, Japan, Korea,
United States, Australia and Canada) or provided
monthly to the IEA by the Statistical Office of the
European Communities (Eurostat).
Values recorded at the import stage are the sum of
cost, insurance and freight (CIF cost including
freight/fees), but exclude import duties. Values recorded at the export stage (FOB free on board), exclude seaborne or international transport, but include
inland transport costs of the exporting country.
As far as possible, the concept of general imports and

exports is used. This includes coal imports for reexport with or without processing, but excludes transit
trade.
(including energy). In these cases, value added

taxes are refunded to the customer, usually in the
form of a tax credit. Therefore, it is not shown as
part of the prices.
The definitions of coal categories and the volume and

value units used in each of the above source systems
vary considerably. A certain amount of regrouping
and unit conversions is necessary once the basic data
are compiled.
A standard coal quality for all international comparisons of end-use prices is not possible given the wide
variety of coal qualities in domestic and international
coal trade. As a result, only average prices covering a
range of different qualities are collected, along with
the calorific value of these averaged sales. If average
prices are not available, prices of a selected coal may
be chosen. Accordingly, international comparisons of
coal end-use prices may be misleading if read at face
value. Detailed notes concerning these price series are
published in Energy Prices and Taxes. Also, please
refer to Energy Prices and Taxes for the detailed description of price mechanisms in each country and
country specific notes.
The rules for regrouping coal categories are consistent

with the definitions used in the annual IEA/OECD
coal statistics. Prices are compiled for steam coal and
for coking coal. Definitions and the correspondence to
national and European classifications are discussed in
detail in the quarterly IEA publication Energy Prices
and Taxes. Comments in Energy Prices and Taxes on
certain data items, as well as general background information, are developed systematically. Data comments
relate mainly to calorific values of specific coal trade
flows and to national coal definitions. Background information covers duties and trade regulations.
Due to reductions in budget, the IEA no longer has adequate resources to provide complete information on
energy prices and taxes, so has had to suppress certain
sections of Energy Prices and Taxes as of 1 January
2012. This included steam and coking coal import and
export data for the year gone. As a result, it has not
been possible to provide these price series with 2011
through 2014 data in this edition of Coal Information.
We are however, extremely hopeful that we may be
able to restore these sections in the future as resources
become available.
End-user prices
End-user prices are collected quarterly from national
administrations and other relevant bodies and supplemented with data extracted from national publications.
Although a standard approach to reporting the data
has been developed, differences in definitions between countries are explained in the notes published
in Energy Prices and Taxes.
The standard approach to reporting end-use prices can
be summarised as follows:
includes transport costs to the consumer;
shows prices actually paid, i.e. net of rebates; and
includes taxes which have to be paid by the consumer as part of the transaction and which are not
refundable. This excludes value added taxes paid
in many European countries by industry (including
electric power stations) for all goods and services
Derived price data

The information collected on prices is converted by the
IEA secretariat into a variety of secondary data in order
to facilitate its analysis. Inter-fuel price comparisons
for one country are usually made on the basis of prices per heat unit such as a tonne of coal equivalent. In
the end-user price tables, the conversion factor used
for converting gross calories to net calories for natural
gas is 0.9.
Inter-country price comparisons are made on the basis
of a standard currency unit, e.g. US dollars. Prices for
regional totals are calculated as the weighted average
only of the available price data in the region and,
therefore, prices shown should be considered as only
indicative.
For coal exports and imports, customs unit values are
prices reported by OECD Member countries.
Customs unit values are average values derived from
customs administrations total volume and total value
data. These data indicate broad price movements as
they are averages of all qualities of coal without regard to the end-use of the coal or to the contract terms
and conditions under which the trade occurs.
End-user prices are those paid by end-users in the
power sector and in industry and are reported by
Member countries in a quarterly reporting system
which the IEAs Standing Group on Long Term
Co-operation initiated in 1981. Data received are published in the IEA quarterly publication Energy Prices
and Taxes.
Unless otherwise stated, prices are reported in US

dollars in the year specified (i.e. current US dollars).
In addition to the official price statistics presented,
coal price statistics published in the industry press are
used to summarise short-term spot steam and coking
coal price trends. Although not official in that they
are not provided by member countries, there is a high
correlation between prices published by the industry
press and national coal price statistics.
Conversion to euro
Prices and taxes prior to the date of entry into the
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) have been
converted from the former national currency using the
appropriate irrevocable conversion rate. The irrevocable conversion rate on 1 January 1999 was used for all
countries, except Greece (fixed rate as of 1 January
2001), Slovenia (fixed rate as of 1 January 2007),
Malta and Cyprus 1 (both fixed rate as of 1 January
2008), the Slovak Republic (fixed rate as of 1 January
2009), and Estonia (fixed rate as of 1 January 2012).
Country
Austria
Belgium
Cyprus6
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Rate
13.7603
40.3399
0.585274
15.6466
5.94573
6.55957
1.95583
340.75
0.787564
Country
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Rate
1936.27
40.3399
0.4293
2.20371
200.482
30.126
239.64
166.386
This methodology facilitates comparisons within a

country over time and ensures that the historical
evolution (i.e. growth rate) is preserved. However,
pre-EMU Euro are notional units and are not normally
suitable to form area aggregates or to carry out crosscountry comparisons.
Sources
Most of the prices are submitted on a quarterly basis
to the IEA secretariat by administrations; others are
taken from national publications or web sites.
1. Please refer to Part I Section 4, Geographical Coverage.
Energy end-use prices in US dollars

In general, country differentials between national enduse prices expressed in U.S. dollars are heavily influenced by exchange rate differentials. However, world
market prices of primary fuels in U.S. dollars are an
important parameter for the pricing of final energy
consumption, particularly for countries which rely
heavily on energy imports.
The difference between world market prices and national end-use prices in U.S. dollars correspond to the
remaining pricing parameters, i.e. transformation and
distribution costs, non-internationally tradable energy
sources (mainly hydro-power, but also natural gas),
market structures (e.g. mix of large- and smallpurchase lots), and the pricing policies of central or
local authorities, which naturally include the national
tax policies.
Household energy prices in US dollars:

purchasing power parities versus exchange rates
Over time, there have been wide fluctuations in exchange rates and there has been some concern regarding international price comparisons based on exchange rates which may not reflect the relative purchasing power in each currency.
An alternative method of comparison is provided by
Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) which are the rates
of currency conversion that equalise the purchasing
power of different currencies. A given sum of money,
when converted into different currencies at the PPP
rates, buys the same basket of goods and services in
all countries. In other words, PPP's are the rates of
currency conversion which eliminate the differences
in price levels between different countries.
The Purchasing Power Parities used here were developed jointly by the OECD statistics directorate and Eurostat (the Statistical Office of the European Communities) to enable international price comparisons to be
made for GDP and its components. (For more information on the methodology, see www.oecd.org/std/ppp.)
11. COUNTRY NOTES

In many cases, data submitted by Member countries to
the secretariat do not conform to the standard reporting methodology or have other particular characteristics. Information set out below will assist readers to
interpret data for particular countries and aid in the
comparison of data among countries.
The notes given below refer to data for the years 1960
to 2013 and may also refer to 2014p preliminary data
as well as the information on CD-ROM and the online data service. In general, more detailed notes are
available for data since 1990.
Data for anthracite, coking coal, other bituminous coal,
sub-bituminous coal and lignite are available separately
from 1978. Prior to 1978, only data for hard coal (anthracite + coking coal + other bituminous coal) and brown
coal (lignite + sub-bituminous coal) are available. In prior
editions to Coal Information 2014, sub-bituminous coal
was included under hard coal for the following countries,
namely; Australia, Belgium, Chile, Finland, France,
Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal
and the United States. While this is no longer the case
since 1978, data earlier than this were aggregated into
either hard coal or brown coal, and unless specified,
there has been no attempt to reclassify portions of data
from hard coal to brown coal in this period.
In 1996, the IEA secretariat extensively revised data on
coal and coke use in blast furnaces, and in the iron and
steel industry (for those countries with blast furnaces),
based on data provided to the OECD Steel Committee and
other sources. Where necessary, the quantities of fuels
transformed into blast furnace gas have been estimated
by the IEA secretariat based on its blast furnace model.
Australia
All data refer to the fiscal year, (e.g. July 2012 to June
2013 for 2013).
In the 2013 edition, data for Australia were revised
back to 2003 due to the adoption of the National
Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) data as

the main energy consumption data source for the
Australian Energy Statistics. As a result, there are
breaks in the time series for many data between 2002
and 2003. The revisions have also introduced some
methodological problems. The national statistics appear
to have problems identifying inputs and outputs to certain transformation processes such as gas works plants,
electricity plants and CHP plants. Energy industry own
use and inputs to the transformation processes are
sometimes not reported separately in the correct categories. More detail is given in the notes below.
For the 2002 data, the Australian administration began
to use a new survey methodology which has caused
shifts in the structure of industry consumption. The
Australian administration is planning to revise the
historical series.
Increases of production and consumption of other bituminous coal in 2013 are due to both new mine capacity
and improved classification data. At this stage it has not
been possible to revisit earlier years, so there additionally
appears to be switching between sub-bituminous coal
and other bituminous coal, when it is more likely that
some other bituminous coal was reported as subbituminous coal in earlier cycles, and in some flows, vice
versa. Data on blast furnace gas for electricity production
by autoproducers begins in 1986. Consumption in wood
and wood products is included in paper, pulp and print
from 2001 onwards. The drop in BKB production in
2004 was due to a fire in the main production plant. Only
anthracite for export is reported separately; the remainder that is consumed domestically is included with other
bituminous coal. Reclassification of some coal types in
2013 were calculated on an energy basis and resulted in
a net increase of quantities of primary coal from 2003 to
2011. Export trade in coke oven coke between 2005 and
2011 exists, but data are unavailable for reasons of confidentiality. Until 2005, natural gas consumed to fuel the
distribution of natural gas in natural gas networks is reported as transformation for gas works gas production
instead of in energy industry own-use. Coke oven gas

reported as energy industry own-use in electricity or
CHP plants is used for generation purposes, while natural gas used for own-use plant support is reported in the
transformation sector. Breaks in the time series for gas
works gas between 2008 and 2009 are due to a change of
survey. In the 2013 edition, production data for all manufactured gases were revised downwards as part of the
new national methodology, leading to significant statistical differences between the revised data and consumption statistics.
Prior to 1978, some sub-bituminous coal may be included in hard coal.
Austria
Historical revisions by the Austrian administration
have resulted in some breaks in series between 1989
and 1990.
Other bituminous coal includes hard coal briquettes.
"Trockenkohle" is included with BKB because of its
high calorific value. Since 1996, gas works gas is reported with natural gas because it is distributed in the
same network. The amount of gas works gas is negligible and it is mostly consumed by households. The
last lignite mine closed in the second quarter of 2004
and lignite use for power generation ceased in 2006.
LD gas, which should normally be reported as other
recovered gases, is reported with blast furnace gas
Belgium
Sub-bituminous coal data reported in from other sources
refer to coal recuperated from coal dumps. Production of
other bituminous coal ceased on 31 August 1992. The
use of coke oven gas in chemical and petrochemical activities ceased in 1996. The decrease of bituminous coal
and coke oven coke in the iron and steel industry in 2002
is due to the closure of several plants. Supply-side data
are obtained through survey questionnaires to consumers
in lieu of customs data.
Canada
Due to confidentiality constraints, production of coke oven coke and lignite were estimated by Natural Resources
Canada for 2014p. Production of coking coal and other

bituminous coal were estimated by the IEA secretariat.
In the 2014 and 2015 edition of this publication, the
Canadian administration revised time series for 2005 to
2012, using additional data from the Annual Industrial
Consumption of Energy, the Annual Survey of Secondary Distributors, the Report on Energy Supply and Demand and the NRCan Office of Energy Efficiency.
Breaks in time series also between appear 1989 and
1990, due to changes in methodology, incorporated in
2002.
Due to the unavailability of data, non-energy use of
coke oven coke and hard coal is included with final
consumption sectors prior to 1978 and 1980, respectively. Before 1978, lignite inputs to main activity
producer heat plants are included in final consumption. Starting in 1979, these inputs are included in
main activity producer electricity plants.
Due to a Canadian confidentiality law, it is not possible for the Canadian administration to submit disaggregated series for all of the coal types. Between
2002 and 2006, the IEA secretariat has estimated
some of the missing series. The data for 2007 onwards
are given directly as reported, however data may be
present in non-representative products, and additionally these ad hoc reclassification methodologies contribute significantly to larger than normal statistical
differences across products. In the 2014 and 2015 editions, some revisions to the 2004 to 2006 data (mentioned above) were received in addition to some time
series and products for 2007 to 2011. The Canadian
administration is planning to further refine its reporting.
At this point in time, oil shale and oil sands data are
not submitted, and this energy source is deemed to
enter the supply stream as shale oil (Other hydrocarbons) in the Oil Information publication.
Chile
Data for Chile for 2014p have been estimated by the
IEA secretariat.
Data are available starting in 1971.
From 1990, consumption in paper and pulp includes
forestry and consumption in agriculture is included in
non-specified industry. In general, a new methodology has been applied for data since 1990, leading to
other breaks in series between 1989 and 1990.
Other bituminous coal includes sub-bituminous coals

for all years. Because of this, sub-bituminous coal, if
present, is included in hard coal.
Czech Republic
In the 2014 edition, residential consumption for the
period, 1990 through 2011, was revised for other bituminous coal, lignite, coke oven coke and BKB, as more
accurate consumption data became available. In the
2015 edition, improved reporting enabled further revisions to be adopted for some primary coal consumption flows between 2010 and 2012. Due to economic
restructuring in the consumption sectors in the late
1990s (large state enterprises subdividing and/or privatising and the utilisation of new technologies by businesses), there may be breaks in time series in these sectors. Data for 1990 to 1995 were estimated based on the
Czech publication Energy Economy Year Book. In
1995, town gas production (included in gas works gas)
ceased. Revisions by the Czech administration have
resulted in some breaks in series between 2001 and
2002. Production from other sources of other bituminous coal is from coal slurries.
Coal which had been previously classified as subbituminous coal until the 2008 edition is now reported
under lignite for all years, while actual subbituminous coal is included in other bituminous coal.
Denmark
In the 2004 edition, major revisions were made by the
Danish administration for the 1990 to 2001 data,
which may cause breaks in time series between 1989
and 1990.
A large increase of steam coal imports in 2003 was
related to a drought in Scandinavia. Thermal power
plants were operated more intensively to replace
hydro-generated electricity that was consumed in the
country. Additionally, more coal-generated electricity
was exported to other countries in the region.
Declines in stocks on hand of thermal coal stem from
extensive deployment of renewable generation technologies and policy to further reduce Denmarks utilisation of coal-fired power and implement co-firing
with renewable fuels as a part of their Energy Strategy
2050.
Estonia
Data for Estonia are available starting in 1990. Prior
to that, they are included in Former Soviet Union in
Energy Statistics of Non-OECD Countries.
In the 2013 edition, data for oil shale production for
the period 1991 to 1997 were revised to match Estonian GHG National Inventory values. Consumption data
remained unchanged. Fuels reported as coke oven
coke and gas works gas are by-products of oil shale
liquefaction.
Finland
A new survey system and a reclassification of the data
lead to breaks in the time series between 1999 and
2000 for most products and sectors. The new survey
system is more detailed and has better product coverage especially in electricity, CHP and heat production,
as well as in industry.
In the 2015 edition, revisions were received for some
consumption flows of other bituminous coal and coke
oven coke, while other recovered gases (from ferrochromium manufacture) were reported separately for
the first time, with revisions back to 2000. Prior to
2000, off-gases from ferrochromium manufacture are
included in blast furnace gas and inputs of coke oven
coke for ferrochromium manufacture in inputs to blast
furnaces instead of non-specified transformation.
A large increase of steam coal imports in 2003 is related to a drought in Scandinavia. Thermal power
plants were operated more intensively to replace hydrogenerated electricity that is consumed in the country.
Additionally, more coal-generated electricity was exported to other countries in the region. Likewise, peat
production is highly dependant upon favourable
weather conditions and the pricing of other fuels. The
decrease in peat and other bituminous coal usage in
main activity electricity plants in 2008 was due to
record electricity generation from hydro plants. A
similar circumstance occurred in 2012.
The first coking plant started operation in 1987, hence
imports of coking coal and production of coke oven coke
and coke oven gas started in that year. Coal tars used for
non-energy purposes or exported are not reported in production and trade or consumption. The increase of other
bituminous coal inputs into main activity producer electricity plants from 1993 to 1994 was due to coal replacing imported electricity and hydro power. Production of
gas works gas ceased in April 1994. Prior to 2008, peat

products are included with peat.
France
may occur between 1998 and 2005 for coke oven gas
and blast furnace gas. Up to 2002, other bituminous
coal includes anthracite. Consumption of nonrenewable municipal waste and other solid biofuels as
a reductant occurs in German blast furnaces, but is not
currently quantified. Likewise, coal tar is a by-product
of coke ovens, but not currently reported.
Greece
Prior to 1985, consumption of colliery gas is included

with the use of coke oven gas by autoproducers. Final
consumption in industry is estimated by the secretariat
from 1986 to 2001 for some products. For 1989 to
1998, the IEA secretariat has estimated industry consumption based on Consommations dEnergie dans
lIndustrie, SESSI. Other manufactured gases (oxygen
steel furnace gas) are included in blast furnace gas.
Distinction between coke oven gas consumption, and
consumption of other gases produced in the iron and
steel sector is ill defined, resulting in jumps in time
series and unusual efficiencies.
Electricity production using hard coal ceased in 1989. A

new main activity producer electricity plant using imported bituminous coal was brought on-line in 1991.
Production of gas works gas ceased in 1997. Lignite has
been used in main activity producer CHP plants since
1997. Production of BKB ceased partway through 2008.
Data are available from 1965.
Germany
Stock changes for other bituminous coal and coking
coal have been estimated by the IEA secretariat for
2014p.
German data include the new federal states of
Germany from 1970 onwards.
The German administration has changed the methodology for reporting heat. Between 2003 and 2006,
autoproducer heat output was provided, but not inputs.
Starting in 2007, more information is available on
main activity heat plants and additional inputs started
to be reported for this category. This causes breaks in
series between 2006 and 2007.
In the 2014 edition, significant revisions were submitted for all primary coal types, derived products and
manufactured gases for the period 2003 to 2011 as previous estimations were updated with more accurate
information. Revisions primarily affected consumption,
including industry and other sectors; but also supply,
statistical differences and weighted calorific values.
Due to earlier reclassifications of several sectors by
the German administration, breaks in series may occur
between 1990 and 1992. This particularly affects
BKB, lignite and coke oven coke. BKB inputs to gas
works plants stopped in 1997. Breaks in time series
Hungary
From 1992, the production of sub-bituminous coal has
been included with lignite due to the low quality of
the coal. For 1990 to 1999, the use of this domestic
coal in main activity producer electricity and CHP
plants has also been reclassified to lignite. Autoproducer heat and power plants using coke oven gas
and blast furnace gas were reclassified in 1998 as
main activity power plants.
Iceland
Data for Iceland for 2014p have been estimated by the
IEA secretariat.
Prior to 1970, final consumption includes inputs and
outputs to heat production. The industrial classifications used by the Icelandic administration were
changed in 1987. Final consumption increased in
2000 due to a new iron and steel plant coming on-line.
Ireland
Production data for peat briquettes are available from
1975. Low production of peat in 1985 was due to a
poor harvest, as was the case in 2012 where record
lows were due to an unusually wet summer. The production of gas works gas ceased in 1987 due to fuel
switching to natural gas. Other bituminous coal inputs
to main activity producer electricity plants increased
from 1986 due to three new generating units at
Moneypoint coming on-line. A reclassification causes
a break in the time series for peat consumption in the
energy industry own use in BKB/(peat products)
plants from 1989 to 1990.
Due to confidentiality reasons, inputs of anthracite, other
bituminous coal and BKB/peat briquettes into patent
fuel transformation are reported with residential
consumption.
Prior to 1990, possible imports of BKB, if present, are
included with imports of peat products, as is the case
for consumption. Rainfall in 2012 led to the lowest
peat harvest since IEA records began in 1960, requiring large stock drawdown and increased use of biomass for electricity generation. In 2013, production
targets were met before the end of the year however
production continued in order to further build stocks
to alleviate the potential impacts of future weather
events.
Israel
Israel was unable to provide data for 2014p. These
data have been estimated by the IEA secretariat.
Oil shale data for 2013 are confidential.
Italy
A change in methodology leads to breaks in series for
industry and transformation between 2003 and 2004.
From 1986 onwards, figures from lignite are given
using the same methodology as in the Bilancio Energetico Nazionale. In 1991, all industrial activities
were reclassified on the basis of ISTAT/NACE 91.
This has implied some transfer of activities which
may result in some anomalies between 1991 and earlier years. Due to a change in the survey system,
breaks in time series may occur between 1997 and
1998 for final consumption. The apparent jump in
production of coke oven gas in 2012 was the consequence of improvements in scope of reporting, rather
than a marked increase in production. As such, coke
oven gas data in prior years should be viewed as under-representing production and consumption of coke
oven gas, and likewise, coke oven efficiencies will

appear lower than actual.
Prior to 2009, sub-bituminous coal used in main activity electricity plants was included with other bituminous coal.
Calorific values for imports of other bituminous coal
and sub-bituminous coal are derived from inputs for
main activity electricity generation starting in 2001.
Japan
Between 2004 and 2007, the IEA received a series of
revisions from the Japanese administration. The first
set of revisions received in 2004 increased the 1990
supply by 5% for coal, 2% for natural gas and 0.7%
for oil compared to the previous data. This led to an
increase of 2.5% in 1990 CO2 emissions calculated
using the Reference Approach while the Sectoral
Approach remained fairly constant. For the 2006 edition, the IEA received revisions to the coal and oil
data which had a significant impact on both the energy data and the CO2 emissions. The most significant
revisions occurred for coke oven coke, naphtha, blast
furnace gas and petroleum coke. These revisions affected consumption rather than supply in the years
concerned. As a result, the Sectoral Approach CO2
emissions increased for all the years, however at different rates. For example, the Sectoral Approach CO2
emissions for 1990 were 4.6% higher than those calculated for the 2005 edition, while the 2003 emissions
were 1.1% higher than those of the previous edition.
Due to the impact these successive revisions have had
on the final energy balance, as well as on CO2 emissions, the IEA was in close contact with the Japanese
administration to better understand the reasons behind
these changes. These changes were mainly due to the
Government of Japan's efforts to improve the inputoutput balances in the production of oil products and
coal products in response to inquiries from the UNFCCC secretariat. To cope with this issue, the Japanese administration established a working group in
March 2004. The working group completed its work
in April 2006. Many of its conclusions were incorporated in the 2006 edition, but some further revisions to
the time series (especially in industry and other) were
submitted for the 2007 edition.
In the 2014 edition, further supply-side revisions to
data from 1990 through 2011 were received, primarily
to imports of other bituminous coal in order to reconcile differences between submissions to the IEA and
UNFCCC. In this edition, imports of other bituminous
coal and coking coal from partner countries have been
estimated by the IEA for the period 1990-2014p based

on customs data and total imports by coal type.
Consumption data for commercial/public services
may include consumption in small and medium-size
industries. The Japanese administration expects that
this shortcoming be corrected in the near future.
Starting in 1990, data are reported on a fiscal year
basis (e.g. April 2013 to March 2014 for 2013).
From 1982, residential use of coke oven coke is included in commercial/public services sector. Other
recovered gas data are available from 1982. The inputs of coke oven coke to blast furnaces, as well as
the final consumption of coke oven coke in the iron
and steel industry, have been estimated by the IEA
secretariat starting in 1990. From 1998, inputs of coke
oven gas, blast furnace gas and other recovered gases
into autoproducer electricity plants include the
amount used to produce electricity with TRT technology (Top pressure Recovery Turbines) which was
previously included in industry. The net calorific values for coal have been recalculated by the IEA secretariat based upon gross values submitted by Japan.
Coal injected in blast furnaces (PCI) is classified as
coking coal in order to be consistent with Japanese
trade statistics. With the 2008 edition, Japan has reclassified part of the coal inputs to coke ovens as inputs to blast furnaces.
Electricity and heat produced in CHP plants are not
included in the CHP data series, but instead are reported as separate electricity or heat components. Data on heat produced for sale by autoproducer heat
plants are not available. Inputs of manufactured gases
to main activity electricity and heat plants are calculated based on outputs and using efficiencies of main
activity producers from other fuels. For autoproducers, the specific inputs are known, however the specific electricity production by each gas is estimated
based on a pro-rata of the total electricity generation
from all gas types.
Statistical differences in hard coal products include
stock changes since 2001. Large positive differences
for several years since 2004 are partly due to purpose
driven stock build by final consumers.
Other bituminous coal includes sub-bituminous coal.
Korea
Data are available from 1971.
Data for 2002 onwards have been reported on a different basis, causing breaks in series between 2001
and 2002, especially for inputs and outputs to electricity generation and consumption in the iron and steel
industry. The Korean administration is planning to revise the historical series as time and resources permit.
Data for coal and coal products from 1971 to 2001 are
based on information provided by the Korean administration, as well as information from the Yearbook of
Energy Statistics 2002, the Yearbook of Coal Statistics 2001 (both from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy), and Statistics of Electric Power in
Korea 2001 (from the Korea Electric Power Corporation). During this period, import data by coal type
were estimated by the IEA secretariat, based on statistics of the exporting countries.
Consumption of imported coke oven coke starting in
2002 is reported under non-specified industry. Consumption of manufactured gases in the iron and steel
industry starting in 2002 includes the consumption in
blast furnaces, basic oxygen steel furnaces and other
iron and steel processing plants. Blast furnace gas
used for energy purposes in blast furnaces prior to
2007 are reported in the iron and steel industry. Coal
tar production prior to 2007 is not available at this
time. The national administration is working to improve reporting of coal-derived gases consumption.
Luxembourg
Steel production from blast furnaces ceased at the end
of 1997. For the 2011 edition, the Luxembourgian
administration revised the time series from 2000 for
most coal and coal products. Time series for brown
coal briquettes consumption were revised from 1990.
Mexico
For 2014p, for coking coal and sub-bituminous coal,
trade data were estimated by the IEA secretariat based
on partner data; consumption and implied stock changes in data were also estimated by the IEA secretariat.
The Mexican administration is currently undertaking
major work on revisions of the time series back to
1990. These revisions could not be implemented in
the 2015 edition. As a consequence, wholesale breaks
in time series appear between 2012 and 2013. Revisions to historical data are pending.
Data are available starting in 1971 and are partly estimated based on the publication Balance Nacional Energa. The Mexican administration submitted data
directly by questionnaire for the first time with 1992
data. As a result, some breaks in time series may occur between 1991 and 1992.
The time series for blast furnace gas and inputs of
coke oven coke to blast furnaces start in 1991. Production and some consumption of coke oven gas are
conservatively estimated by the IEA secretariat for
1990 to 2012 with agreement from the Mexican administration. Other bituminous coal is either reported
as coking coal or sub-bituminous coal, depending upon usage, while anthracite and indigenously produced
lignite prior to 2013 were included with subbituminous coal. Calorific values currently in use may
not accurately reflect any of this. Significant statistical
differences are currently included in stock changes for
some products.
Netherlands
In the national statistical system of the Netherlands,
use of fuel in manufacturing industries for CHP production is considered to be consumption in the transformation sector. However, in IEA statistics, this own
use for heat production (autoproduced heat) is reported under the relevant industry sub-sector, based on
estimates provided by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
For 1984 to 1986, production from other sources of
other bituminous coal represents a stock of "smalls"
washed for re-use. Prior to 1989, non-energy use is
included with industry consumption.
Coal exports until 2014 primarily consist of reexported volumes after blending. International trade
into and through the hub ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam is complicated by the capacity to purchase
coal directly at these points. The majority of coal
passing through these ports is intended for consumption in European countries other than the Netherlands,
so constitutes neither the country of origin or destination and these data have been removed where possible.
In the 2015 edition, a conscious decision was made by
the Central Bureau of Statistics to move away from
accounting for transit, to aligning more closely with

gross trade data, as can be seen with the very large
increase in both imports and exports of other bituminous coal in 2013. Additionally, the majority of coking coal imports and exports are similarly included
within other bituminous coal trade figures. For data
prior to 2011, stock changes for primary coal types
were estimated by the Dutch administration, based on
trade and consumption data. In the 2013 edition, nonspecified exports for 2011 were estimated by the Central Bureau of Statistics due to a lack of information
from key market players.
New Zealand
Where data refer to the fiscal year (prior to 1994),
April 2013 to March 2014 is shown as 2013. From
1994, data refer to calendar year.
In the 2011 edition, the New Zealand administration
has revised some of the coal, natural gas, oil, renewable and electricity time series back to 1990.
A reorganisation of government departments during
1987 leading to the cessation of certain data series has
resulted in several breaks in time series between 1987
and 1988. Production of gas works gas ceased in
1988. Peat, although produced in New Zealand, is not
used as a fuel. It is used for agricultural purposes only. In final consumption, some industry data are reported in non-specified industry for confidentiality
reasons. Breaks in time series between 2008 and 2009
are due to changes in data collector and improvements
in reporting scope. Prior to 2009, mining and quarrying is included in agriculture. Prior to 2010, construction is included with commercial/public services.
Sub-bituminous coal input into coke ovens refers to
coal that is merged with iron sands and limestone to
form the inputs for the multi-hearth-furnaces, kilns and
melters that produce direct reduced iron (Glenbrook
Steel Site), with off-gases and supplemental and natural
gas driving CHP plants. This method, while not a typical
iron and steel process, produces similar by-products. The
sub-bituminous coal inputs are reported under coke
oven coke transformation and the resulting off-gases
are reported as production of coke oven gas and blast
furnace gas. Blast furnace gas production and distribution losses prior to 1998 are IEA secretariat estimates.
Portions of this gas will have been used for energy
purposes in the multi-hearth furnaces or elsewhere
in the plant. Some transformation efficiencies will
appear higher than normal due to non-reporting of

certain inputs, including some confidential data.
A detailed breakdown of exports of coking coal by
country of destination between 2001 and 2011, and
for 2014p is estimated by the IEA, based on secondary sources and partner data.
Prior to 1978, the portion of sub-bituminous coal believed to be reported in hard coal was estimated by the
secretariat and relocated to brown coal.
Norway
Production of coking coal, coke oven coke and coke
oven gas ceased in the late 1980s. The decrease of
bituminous coal production in 2005 is due to a fire in
one of the coal mines; this entailed a break in the production for a large part of the year.
Other bituminous coal includes lignite.
Poland
Prior to 2010, own use in coal mines included workers take home allowance which should be included in
residential consumption. Other recovered gases which
appear in the balances as output from blast furnaces
include off-gases from zinc and copper smelting, ceramics kilns and steel production.
Portugal
Between 1997 and 2001, gas works gas was gradually
replaced by natural gas in the commercial/public services and residential sectors. The production of pig iron
ceased in the first quarter of 2001, leading to decreases
in supply and consumption of coking coal, coke oven
coke, coke oven gas and blast furnace gas in 2001.
Slovak Republic
There are some breaks in series between 1992 and
1993. A new survey system in 2001 leads to major
breaks in series for most products. Commercial/public
services also includes statistical differences for other

bituminous coal, lignite, patent fuel and coke oven
coke from 1980 onwards and BKB from 1989 onwards.
Slovenia
Data for Slovenia are available starting in 1990. Prior
to that, they are included in Energy Statistics of NonOECD Countries in Former Yugoslavia. A new energy data collection system was implemented in January
2001, causing some breaks in time series between
1999 and 2000.
Spain
Lignite mining was halted indefinitely in 2008. For
1999-2003, anthracite is included in other bituminous
coal. Data associated with the coke oven coke transformation process are under review by Spain and revised data are pending. The calorific values for subbituminous coal are correct on an as received basis,
and comply with definitions of sub-bituminous coal
on a moist, but ash free basis.
Sweden
Other bituminous coal production is coal recovered during the quarrying of clay. Autoproducer inputs to waste
heat production that is sold are reported in the respective
final consumption sectors and not in transformation.
Some mixture of LNG with air to form a lower calorie
product is reported as gas works gas production replacing traditional gas works gas manufacture.
Switzerland
From 1999, data on consumption result from a new
survey and are not comparable with data of previous
years.
From 1985, industrial consumption of gas works gas
is reported in non-specified industry to prevent the
disclosure of commercially confidential data. Allocation of consumption data between certain coal types is
estimated by the Swiss administration. Calorific values for anthracite, other bituminous coal and coke
oven coke are taken from a shared default figure. Lignite calorific values are also default data.
Turkey
Production and consumption of sub-bituminous coal
and lignite were estimated by the IEA for 2014p.
Production of gas works gas declined in 1989 due to
plant closures; the last plant closed in 1994. Use of
gas coke and gas works gas ceased in 1994. Due to
government regulations in industry and residential, in
particular, there has been a shift from the use of domestically produced coal to imported coal and natural
gas. The privatisation of state owned coke ovens in
recent years results in incomplete information on coke
oven gas distribution. Data from 2008 are provided
from the results of an improved questionnaire. Therefore, significant changes occur in consumption patterns within the iron and steel industry, coal mining as
well as across industry, residential and commercial/
public services for other bituminous coal. Until 2012,
some coal used in cement kilns is reported under construction instead of non-metallic minerals. Submitted
2012 data utilised the latest census data, causing significant breaks in time series between 2011 and 2012.
United Kingdom
Consumption shown for the commercial/public services includes consumption of some of non-specified
other. Prior to 1994, the consumption of substitute
natural gas is included with natural gas, while its
production is included with gas works gas. Oxygen

steel furnace gas is reported with blast furnace gas
rather than as other recovered gases.
United States
Due to technical difficulties, the Energy Information
administration was unable to provide some data for
2014p, which have been estimated by the IEA secretariat based on secondary sources and partial submissions.
Due to problems in reporting, there are numerous
breaks in series for the US data, particularly in 1992,
1999, 2001 and 2002. Care should be taken when
evaluating consumption by sector since inputs of fuel
to autoproducers are included in final consumption for
some years. No data are available for most energy
products in the construction and mining and quarrying
industries.
In 2002, the United States reported synfuel production as patent fuel for the first time. Prior to 2002, the
consumption of this fuel was reported with other bituminous coal. Production ceased in 2007 for economic reasons. Since the Energy Information administration (EIA) and the US Department of Commerce
do not collect separate data on patent fuel exports by
country, total exports of patent fuel are included in the
exports of other bituminous coal for this period. Coal tar
as a by-product of coke ovens is not currently reported.
2013 COUNTRY SPECIFIC AVERAGE NET CALORIFIC VALUES [kJ/kg]

Anthracite
Australia
Coking
coal
26 700
28 500
Other
SubLignite /
bituminous bituminous Oil shale
coal
coal
and oil
sands1
25 700
18 478
9 800
Peat
Patent
fuels
Coke
oven
coke
Coal tar
27 000
35 714
BKB /
Peat
products2
20 995
Austria
26 700
29 296
27 632
21 853
9 700
31 000
29 000
41 800
19 300
Belgium
24 283
29 250
26 292
30 480
29 308
38 519
20 682
Canada
26 381
29 831
27 809
17 429
14 286
27 457
28 591
24 378
28 591
41 800
Chile
Czech Republic
28 953
28 772
26 064
12 296
28 478
37 770
20 830
Denmark
24 501
29 300
18 300
Estonia
27 156
8 9001
10 388
28 500
15 2002
Finland
26 700
29 300
24 878
10 207
29 300
37 000
16 9002
France
30 500
26 000
17 000
32 000
28 000
38 000
29 862
29 000
26 275
9 070
31 400
28 650
21 208
27 825
5 222
Hungary
27 600
32 290
24 860
16 856
7 025
29 180
38 000
19 800
Iceland
28 050
26 670
Ireland
28 709
25 543
8 123
Germany
Greece
19 816
18 5482
Israel
25 060
20 771
2 9311
Italy
30 984
25 475
18 853
10 468
29 000
Japan
27 246
28 076
24 879
29 181
35 393
Korea
24 127
28 219
24 660
21 353
18 631
28 889
37 000
Luxembourg
26 700
24 400
28 500
22 200
Mexico
26 497
28 469
19 886
11 158
28 526
37 970
18 000
Netherlands
29 300
28 671
24 676
20 000
28 500
41 900
New Zealand
30 026
28 499
20 558
14 531
29 500
Norway
28 100
28 500
Poland
29 634
22 461
8 340
23 200
27 701
37 720
17 640
Portugal
29 412
24 911
29 567
Slovak Republic
27 337
29 490
25 005
11 012
28 000
28 064
33 490
17 000
26 175
19 531
11 613
29 937
30 673
29 000
22 657
13 321
26 795
38 519
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
30 000
27 400
12 583
28 080
25 500
25 500
20 100
25 500
Turkey
28 041
27 095
22 700
10 173
29 747
United Kingdom
30 640
24 957
31 065
29 800
34 968
28 745
29 655
25 727
18 926
13 834
28 865
Switzerland
United States
Source: IEA/OECD Coal Statistics

Data are weighted averages of supply side statistics, on a net as received (NAR) basis.
12. GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE

Australia excludes the overseas territories.
Denmark excludes Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
France includes Monaco, but excludes the following
overseas departments and territories: Guadeloupe;
French Guiana; Martinique; New Caledonia; French
Polynesia; Reunion; Saint Pierre and Miquelon;
Wallis and Futuna and Mayotte.
Germany includes the new federal states of Germany
from 1970 onwards.
The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without
prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights;
East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West
Bank under the terms of international law.
Italy includes San Marino and the Holy See.
Japan includes Okinawa.
The Netherlands excludes Suriname, Aruba and the
former Netherlands Antilles1 (Bonaire, Curaao, Saba,
Saint Eustatius and Sint Maarten).
Portugal includes the Azores and Madeira.
Spain includes the Canary Islands.
Switzerland does not include Liechtenstein.
The United Kingdom excludes the British overseas
territories. Coal exports to the Crown dependencies
are not recorded. Supplies of solid fuel to these islands from the UK are therefore included as part of
United Kingdom inland consumption or deliveries.
1. The Netherlands Antilles was dissolved on 10 October 2010, resulting in two new constituent countries of the Netherlands (Curaao
and Sint Maarten), with the other islands joining the Netherlands as special
municipalities.
United States includes 50 States and the District of

Columbia, but excludes all United States territories
with the exception of coal trade with Puerto Rico.
Exports from the United States to Puerto Rico are not
shown, while imports from other countries to Puerto
Rico may be shown as United States imports from
those countries.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) comprises
Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada; the Czech Republic;
Denmark; Estonia 2 ; Finland; France; Germany;
Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Korea;
Luxembourg; the Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway;
Poland; Portugal; the Slovak Republic; Spain; Sweden;
Switzerland; Turkey; the United Kingdom and the
United States;
Note: Estonia joined the IEA in May 2014.
With the addition of Chile; Iceland; Israel; Mexico;
and Slovenia, all 29 IEA member countries are also
member countries of the Organisation for Economic
Co-Operation and Development (OECD). IEA regional totals include only IEA Member countries and,
therefore, exclude non-IEA Members shown in italics
below.
OECD Americas comprises Canada; Chile; Mexico
and the United States.
OECD Asia Oceania comprises Australia; Israel;
Japan; Korea and New Zealand.
OECD Europe comprises Austria; Belgium; the
Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia2; Finland; France;
Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy;
Luxembourg; the Netherlands; Norway; Poland;
Portugal; the Slovak Republic; Slovenia2; Spain;
Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey and the United Kingdom.
2. Data for Estonia and Slovenia begin in 1990. Prior to 1990, data
for Estonia are included in Former Soviet Union and data for Slovenia
in Former Yugoslavia.
OECD Total is the sum of the three regional OECD

aggregates.
The European Union - 28 (EU-28) includes Austria;
Belgium; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus 3 ; the Czech
Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France;
Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Latvia;
Lithuania; Luxembourg; Malta; the Netherlands;
Poland; Portugal; Romania; the Slovak Republic;
Slovenia; Spain; Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Please note that in the interest of having comparable
data, all these countries are included since 1990
despite different entry dates into the European Union.
Non-OECD Europe and Eurasia includes Albania;
Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia; Gibraltar; Kazakhstan;
Kosovo4 (from 2000); Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania;
Malta; the Republic of Moldova; Montenegro4 (from
2005); Romania; the Russian Federation; Serbia4; the
Former Soviet Union 5 ; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan;
Ukraine; Uzbekistan and Former Yugoslavia5.
Africa includes Algeria; Angola; Benin; Botswana
(from 1981); Cameroon; Congo; the Democratic
Republic of Congo; Cte dIvoire; Egypt; Eritrea;
Ethiopia; Gabon; Ghana; Kenya; Libya; Mauritius;
Morocco; Mozambique; Namibia (from 1991); Nigeria;
Senegal; South Africa; Sudan, the Republic of South
Sudan6; the United Republic of Tanzania; Togo; Tunisia;
Zambia; Zimbabwe and Other Africa.
Other Africa includes Botswana (until 1980);
Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cape Verde; the Central
African Republic; Chad; the Comoros; Djibouti;
Equatorial Guinea; Gambia; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau;
Lesotho; Liberia; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali;
Mauritania; Namibia (until 1990); Niger; Reunion;
Rwanda; Sao Tome and Principe; the Seychelles;
Sierra Leone; Somalia; Swaziland; Uganda, and
Western Sahara (from 1990).
3. Note by Turkey:
The information in this document with reference to Cyprus relates to
the southern part of the Island. There is no single authority representing
both Turkish and Greek Cypriot people on the Island. Turkey recognises
the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Until a lasting and
equitable solution is found within the context of United Nations, Turkey
shall preserve its position concerning the Cyprus issue.
Note by all the European Union Member States of the OECD and
the European Union:
The Republic of Cyprus is recognised by all members of the United
Nations with the exception of Turkey. The information in this report
relates to the area under the effective control of the Government of the
Republic of Cyprus.
4. Data for Serbia include data for Montenegro until 2004 and data
for Kosovo until 1999.
5. Data are shown only as Former Soviet Union and Former Yugoslavia
until 1989. From 1990 onward, data are shown by country only.
6. South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011 and data
exist for 2012 onwards. Because only aggregated data were available
before then, the data for Sudan also include South Sudan until 2012.
Non-OECD Americas includes Argentina; Bolivia;

Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaao (since
2011); the Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador;
Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; the Netherlands
Antilles1 (until 2010); Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay;
Peru; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela and Other non-OECD Americas.
Other non-OECD Americas includes Antigua and
Barbuda; Aruba; the Bahamas; Barbados; Belize;
Bermuda; the British Virgin Islands; the Cayman
Islands; Dominica; the Falkland Islands (Malvinas);
French Guiana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guyana;
Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico7 (for natural gas
and electricity); Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia;
Saint Pierre et Miquelon; Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines; Sint Maarten; Suriname; and the
Turks and Caicos Islands.
Asia includes Bangladesh; Brunei Darussalam;
Cambodia (from 1995); India; Indonesia; the DPR of
Korea; Malaysia; Mongolia (from 1985); Myanmar;
Nepal; Pakistan; the Philippines; Singapore; Sri Lanka;
Chinese Taipei; Thailand; Viet Nam and Other Asia.
Other Asia includes Afghanistan; Bhutan; Cambodia
(until 1994); the Cook Islands; East Timor; Fiji;
French Polynesia; Kiribati; Laos; Macao, China; the
Maldives; Mongolia (until 1984); New Caledonia;
Palau (from 1994); Papua New Guinea; Samoa; the
Solomon Islands; Tonga and Vanuatu.
China Region includes the Peoples Republic of
China and Hong Kong, China.
Former Yugoslavia5 includes Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Croatia; the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia; Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia4 and Slovenia.
Former Soviet Union5 includes Armenia; Azerbaijan;
Belarus; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan;
Latvia; Lithuania; the Republic of Moldova; the
Russian Federation; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan;
Ukraine; and Uzbekistan.
Middle East includes Bahrain; the Islamic Republic
of Iran; Iraq; Jordan; Kuwait; Lebanon; Oman; Qatar;
Saudi Arabia; Syria; the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Please note that the following countries have not been
considered, due to lack of data:
Non-OECD Europe and Eurasia: Liechtenstein8
(except for oil data);
Africa: Saint Helena;
America: Anguilla; and
Asia and Oceania: Christmas Island; Nauru; Niue
and Tuvalu.
7. Oil statistics as well as coal trade statistics for Puerto Rico are
included under the United States.
8. Oil data for Liechtenstein are included under Switzerland.
13. ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVERSION

FACTORS
Units and technical abbreviations
t
kt
Mt
toe
Mtoe
tce
Mtce
kcal
MBtu
GWh
USD
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
metric ton = tonne = 1000 kg

thousand tonnes
million tonnes
tonne of oil equivalent
million tonnes of oil equivalent
tonne of coal equivalent (= 0.7 toe)
million tonnes of coal equivalent
kilocalories (103 calories)
million British thermal units
million kilowatt hours
US dollars
CCS
CIF
FAS
FOB
GDP
GCV
PCI
TPES
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
carbon capture and storage

cost, insurance and freight
free alongside ship
free on board
Gross Domestic Product
gross calorific value
pulverised coal injection
Total primary energy supply
EU
FSU
OECD
UNECE
:
:
:
:
European Union
Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Soviet Union
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
0 or 0.0 : negligible
p
c
e
..
x
:
:
:
:
:
:
provisional (shown for the year)

confidential
estimated
not available
nil
not applicable
General conversion factors for energy

TJ
To:
Gcal
Mtoe
MBtu
GWh
2.388 x 10-5
9.478 x 102
2.778 x 10-1
From:
multiply by:
TJ
2.388 x 10
Gcal
4.187 x 10-3
1 x 10-7
3.968
1.163 x 10-3
Mtoe
4.187 x 104
1 x 107
3.968 x 107
1.163 x 104
MBtu
1.055 x 10-3
2.520 x 10-1
2.520 x 10-8
2.931 x 10-4
GWh
3.6
8.598 x 102
8.598 x 10-5
3.412 x 103
st
lb
1.102 x 10-3
2.205
1.102
2.205 x 103
Conversion factors for mass

kg
To:
lt
From:
multiply by:
kilogramme (kg)
tonne (t)
1 x 10
1 x 10
-3
9.842 x 10-4
9.842 x 10
-1
long ton (lt)
1.016 x 103
1.016
1.12
2.24 x 103
short ton (st)
9.072 x 102
9.072 x 10-1
8.929 x 10-1
2 x 103
pound (lb)
4.536 x 10-1
4.536 x 10-4
4.464 x 10-4
5 x 10-4
Conversion factors for volume

To:
gal U.S.
gal U.K.
ft3
m3
2.381 x 10-2
1.337 x 101
3.785
3.785 x 10-3
bbl
From:
multiply by:
-1
U.S. gallon (gal)
8.327 x 10
U.K. gallon (gal)
1.201
2.859 x 10-2
1.605 x 10-1
4.546
4.546 x 10-3
4.2 x 101
3.497 x 101
5.615
1.590 x 102
1.590 x 10-1
7.481
6.229
1.781 x 101
2.832 x 101
2.832 x 10-2
Litre (l)
2.642 x 10-1
2.200 x 10-1
6.290 x 10-3
3.531 x 10-2
1 x 10-3
Cubic metre (m3)
2.642 x 102
2.200 x 102
6.290
3.531 x 101
1 x 103
Barrel (bbl)
Cubic foot (ft3)
Decimal prefixes
101
10
10
10
10
10
12
10
15
10
18
deca (da)
hecto (h)
kilo (k)
mega (M)
giga (G)
tera (T)
peta (P)
exa (E)
10-1
deci (d)
10
-2
centi (c)
10
-3
milli (m)
10
-6
micro ()
10
-9
nano (n)
10
-12
pico (p)
10
-15
femto (f)
10
-18
atto (a)
The conversion factors shown above are available online with greater precision at: http://www.iea.org/statistics/resources/unitconverter/.
Coal classification
The IEA collects statistics on coal production, trade and consumption according to a technically precise
classification based on the quality of coal as follows:
Anthracite is a high rank, non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value not less than 24 000 kJ/kg
(5 732 kcal/kg) on an ash-free but moist basis and with a mean random reflectance of vitrinite of at least 2.0;
Coking coal is hard coal suitable for the production of coke which can support a blast furnace charge;
Other bituminous coal is an agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value not less than 24 000 kJ/kg
(5 732 kcal/kg) on an ash-free but moist basis and with a mean random reflectance of vitrinite of at least 0.6;
Sub-bituminous coal is a non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value between 20 000 kJ/kg
(4 777 kcal/kg) and 24 000 kJ/kg (5 732 kcal/kg) and with a mean random reflectance of vitrinite of less than
0.6; and
Lignite is a non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value less than 20 000 kJ/kg (4 777 kcal/kg).
However, when publishing these data, the IEA sometimes adopts a simplified classification of hard coal, steam
coal and brown coal. The correspondence is as follows:
Total coal is the sum of hard coal and brown coal;
Hard coal is the sum of coking coal, anthracite and other bituminous coal for all countries, plus, prior to 1978, this
may include sub-bituminous coal for Australia, Belgium, Chile, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Korea, Mexico,
New Zealand, Portugal and the United States;
Brown coal contains lignite and sub-bituminous coal for all countries barring the exceptions prior to 1978 above;
and Steam coal consists of anthracite, other bituminous coal and sub-bituminous coal.
The term total coal also refers to the sum of hard coal and brown coal after conversion to a common energy unit
(tonne of coal equivalent - tce). The conversion is done by multiplying the calorific value of the coal in question
(the conversion factors are submitted by national administrations to the IEA secretariat each year) by the total
volume of hard and brown coal used, measured in physical units, i.e. in tonnes. One tce has an energy content of
29.3 Gigajoules (GJ) or 7 000 kcal and corresponds to 0.7 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe).
Defining coal consumption

Energy statistics are compiled and presented to take account of the complexity in the way fuels are used and to
avoid double counting. Misunderstandings can arise when statistics on coal consumption are used because of the
particular terminology used by energy statisticians.
Coal is used in four possible ways:
As a primary input to produce electricity or a secondary/tertiary fuel that is used elsewhere or sold - this is
referred to as use in transformation processes;
e.g. coking coal used to produce coke in a coke oven or steam coal used to produce electricity.
As a fuel used to support a transformation process - this is referred to as energy industry own use;
e.g. coke oven gas used to heat the coke oven or steam coal used to operate the power plant.
As a fuel consumed in manufacturing, industry, mining and construction, in transport, in agriculture, in
commercial and public services and in households - this is referred to as use in the final consumption sectors;
e.g. steam coal used to produce heat in cement kilns, steam coal used to produce industrial process steam.
As a raw material - this is referred to as non-energy use;
e.g. coal tar used as a chemical feedstock.
In the wider community, the term consumption is commonly understood to include all of the above end-uses. In
Parts IV and V of this book, the term consumption refers only to use in the final consumption sectors (i.e. in the
third item above). In Parts II and III, consumption, unless otherwise specified, refers to Total Primary Energy
Supply as defined in the section in Flows: energy balance in Part I Definitions.
14. WORLD COAL MARKET REVIEW

(1)
Production
Total world coal production
The Peoples Republic of China was once again the
worlds leading producer, as it has been since 1985
(Table II.2), with 3 747.5 Mt of total coal produced
a decline of 96.1 Mt from 2013. Other countries with
notable declines in 2014 included Ukraine (-24.1 Mt),
Indonesia (-16.9 Mt), and Serbia (-10.4 Mt). Declines
in Ukraine were due to turmoil in the Eastern Oblasts
of Donetsk and Luhansk in the second half of 2014,
while declines in Indonesia were partly due to current
weaker demand for Indonesian coals in China, and the
potential for tighter regulations on imports in 2015,
while production declines in Serbia were due to extensive flooding of mines.
The decline of production in these countries majorly
contributed to total world coal production declining
by 52.9 Mt overall in 2014. Production of coking coal
reached a new record high of 1 064.8 Mt, but was unable to counter decreases in production of steam coal
and lignite (Table II.1). Despite this decline, production remained15 above 8 billion tonnes in 2014, more
than twice the level achieved in 1983. In that time,
despite the recent annual global decline for the first
time since 1999, and the general reduction in
coal consumption within the OECD countries,
annual coal production has increased by more than
4 billion tonnes in the last 30 years, the last 3 billion
tonnes of which have come since 2002.
15. Coal Information 2014 reported on provisional data for 2013, at

which stage production from the values provided had not exceeded
8 Gigatonnes. As a consequence, this is the first publication with production greater than 8 Gt.
Table II.1: Total world coal production
[Mt]
2012
2013
Steam coal
5 900.6
6 203.1
6 147.2
Coking coal
976.1
1 037.6
1 064.8
Lignite
2014p
887.2
834.7
810.5
7 763.9
8 075.5
8 022.5
Peat
10.6
18.9
..
Oil Shale/sands
19.2
20.5
21.0
Total(2) coal
(1) Production includes recovered slurries and similar sources.

(2) Total coal comprises steam coal, coking coal and lignite, so
excludes peat, and oil shale and oil sands even though they are
shown here for completeness.
Figure II.1: World total coal production [Mt]

9 000
8 000
7 000
6 000
5 000
4 000
3 000
2 000
1 000
0
OECD
PR of China
Rest of world
World total
For more information, see Table 1.1, Part III.
Global production of all primary coal types passed

3 Gigatonnes (Gt) in 1972, 4 Gt in 1983, 5 Gt in 2003,
6 Gt in 2006, 7 Gt in 2010 and 8 Gt in 2013. The extremely rapid growth since 2000 was largely due to
growth in production in (and later, trade to) the
Peoples Republic of China. Since 2000, OECD pro-
duction of all coal types has declined by 0.1%, while

production in China increased by 176.8%, and in the
rest of the world by 78.4%.
The largest OECD coal-producing region continued to
be OECD Americas, with 49.8% of the OECD production or 12.5% globally. OECD Europe was responsible for 74.0% of OECD lignite production, and
25.5% of OECD total coal production.
Table II.2: Major coal producers
(1)
[Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
3 532.5
3 843.6
3 747.5
United States
932.3
903.7
916.2
India
602.9
610.0
668.4
PR of China
Australia
430.8
458.9
491.2
Indonesia
444.5
487.7
470.8
Russian Federation
329.4
326.0
334.1
South Africa
258.6
256.3
253.2
Germany
197.0
191.0
186.5
Poland
144.1
142.9
137.1
Kazakhstan
120.5
119.6
115.5
89.0
85.5
88.6
Colombia
coal growth as lignite production declined from 1989,

and also the higher rates of growth in steam and coking coal this millennium. Total coal closely tracks
steam coal in recent years, partly through compensating trends for coking coal and lignite, but additionally
because steam coal comprises 75.2% of coal production since 2000. The prominent role of lignite in this
decline is also evident in Figures II.7 and II.9, where
consumption data over the same period are tracked,
but the downturn does not exist in Figure II.7, which
shows data on an energy basis.
Figure II.2: Annual world production variation [Mt]
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
-5%
-10%
Canada
66.5
68.9
69.0
Turkey
71.5
60.4
64.1e
Total coal (5yr avg)
Total coal
Greece
63.0
53.9
48.0
Steam coal
Coking coal
Czech Republic
55.9
49.1
46.9
Lignite
Ukraine
Other
World
67.7
68.8
44.7
358.0
349.2
340.8
7 763.9
8 075.5
8 022.5
(1) Production includes recovered slurries and production

from other sources.
Data for Australia and India are provided on a fiscal basis.
See Table 1.1 in Part III for historic data on selected countries.
Australia repassed Indonesia to once again be the 4th

largest producer of coal in the world (Table II.2).
Indonesian production had rapidly expanded by 515%
from 79.4 Mt in 2000, to 487.7 Mt in 2013, passing
Australia in 2011. In 2014, Australias exports grew
by 38.9 Mt driving an increase in production of
32.2 Mt, resulting in annual production of all coal
types by Australia reaching 491.2 Mt. On the back of
a decrease in exports, Indonesias production fell by
3.5% to 470.8 Mt in 2014.
For more information, see Tables 1.1, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5, Part III.
Steam coal production

In 2014, world steam coal production (anthracite, other
bituminous coal and sub-bituminous coal) decreased by
0.9%, largely due to lower production in China. This
compared to growth of 5.1% in 2013 and 2.6% in 2012
(Table II.3), bringing to the end, a sequence of 14
straight years of global production increases.
OECD steam coal production was 1 151.7 Mt in 2014,
up from the 2013 production figure of 1 132.6 Mt.
This was driven primarily by a 16.7 Mt increase in
steam coal production in the OECD Americas, which
still provide 70.7% of total OECD steam coal production, despite an increase of 9.1 Mt from Australia,
which accounts for 21.3% of OECD production.
Since 1979, the 5 year average for growth in annual

coal production has only dropped below zero for a
brief period in the early- to mid-nineties, while it has
been over 5% in the second half of the 2000s, totalling 4.4% average growth for the last 10 years.
Figure II.2 highlights the small contraction in total
(1)
Table II.3: Major steam coal producers
[Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
3 016.8
3 282.0
3 179.6
United States
779.4
755.7
769.2
India
512.9
516.1
Indonesia
441.4
South Africa
Figure II.3: Steam coal production and shares [Mt]

7 000
70%
6 000
60%
569.9
5 000
50%
484.1
468.1
4 000
40%
257.0
252.9
250.6
Australia
212.5
236.6
245.7
3 000
30%
Russian Federation
179.3
178.5
189.5
2 000
20%
99.8
99.9
93.5
1 000
10%
PR of China
Kazakhstan
Colombia
84.5
81.3
83.5
Poland
68.1
64.9
61.0
Viet Nam
42.1
41.0
35.8
0%
DPR of Korea
30.3
36.3
35.2
OECD Total
Rest of World
Ukraine
46.8
49.1
31.9
PR of China
OECD Total %
Canada
25.9
25.9
29.9
Rest of World %
PR of China %
Mongolia
11.7
12.7
13.7
Areas are cumulative. Lines are individual.
Mexico
13.0
13.5
11.9
For more information, see Tables 1.1, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5, Part III.
Other
79.2
72.6
78.4
5 900.6
6 203.1
6 147.2
World
(1) Production includes recovered slurries and production

from other sources.
In 1978, the OECD accounted for 42.8% of the world

steam coal production and remained above 37% until
the year 2000. However, since then its share has generally declined as non-OECD countries have increased their steam coal production at a faster rate,
predominantly led by the expansion of the Chinese
coal industry since 2001. In 2014, the OECDs share
(18.7%) was less than half its 1978 share, despite its
production being 246 Mt higher (Figure II.3).
In 2014, steam coal production in the non-OECD

countries decreased by 1.5% to 4 995.5 Mt, with over
98.8% of the non-OECD steam coal currently produced by the 10 largest producing countries. The
Peoples Republic of China now accounts for 51.7%
of world steam coal production (including lignite) and
63.6% of non-OECD production.
India is the second largest non-OECD coal producer
and currently is the third largest in the world. In 2014,
their steam coal production increased by 10.4% to
569.9 Mt a larger increase (53.7 Mt) than in the previous five years combined. Although it dominates
South Asian (or subcontinent) production, it contains
a very high ash quotient, and is almost exclusively
consumed domestically, often needing supplementing
with import quality coals.
Indonesia was the 4th largest steam coal producer in
2014, with the majority of its coal designated for export. Decreased demand from China in 2014, in addition to sporadic ordering in 2013, led to large stockpiles
(which were eventually drawn upon), but this may
have been instrumental in contributing to Indonesias
decline in production in 2014. Indonesian steam coal
production fell by 16.1 Mt to 468.1 Mt after growing
by 237.3 Mt over the preceding six years.
South Africas steam coal production has remained
relatively constant at 250 Mt 10 Mt since 2004, and
production in 2014 was 250.6 Mt, down 2.3 Mt from
2013 levels.
Conversely Australia, like Indonesia has been looking

to expand its production with a view to increasing
exports, and its steam coal production has increased
from 170.5 Mt in 2006 to 245.7 Mt in 2014.
Also of note, countries including India, Germany and

Mexico use a significant proportion of their indigenously sourced coking coal (Table II.4) for thermal
purposes for some years.
Coking coal production
Lignite production
World coking coal production increased by 2.6% in

2014 (Table II.4), the 12th straight year of increased
production, driven by growth in production intended
for export by Australia, the worlds second largest
producer of coking coal and the largest exporter by a
considerable margin.
Worldwide, lignite production fell by 2.9% to 810.5 Mt

in 2014, following on from a sharp decrease of 52.5 Mt
or 5.9% in 2013 (Table II.5). OECD lignite production
fell by 12.2 Mt to 546.8 Mt, a new minimum, compared to a maximum of 854.9 Mt in 1989.
Table II.4: Major coking coal
(1)
producers [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
PR of China
515.7
561.6
567.9
Australia
146.9
159.5
184.8
Russian Federation
72.8
73.8
75.0
United States
81.3
77.9
75.0
India
43.5
49.6
51.4
Canada
31.1
34.1
30.6
Kazakhstan
13.0
13.0
15.3
Ukraine
20.9
19.7
12.8
Poland
11.7
12.1
12.3
Mongolia
8.8
6.9
10.3
Colombia
4.5
4.2
5.1
Germany
6.3
4.8
4.8
Czech Republic
5.1
4.6
4.6
Mozambique
2.8
3.3
3.8
Indonesia
3.1
3.6
2.7
South Africa
1.6
3.4
2.6
Other
7.1
5.8
6.0
976.1
1 037.6
1 064.8
World
(1) Significant proportions of production in some countries may be

designated for thermal usage.
The Peoples Republic of China is significant as they

are the worlds second largest producer and consumer
of lignite behind Germany; however their data are
elsewhere, given that lignite is currently reported under
other bituminous coal in their statistics.
(1)
Table II.5: Major lignite
Germany
producers [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
185.4
182.7
178.2
United States
71.6
70.1
72.1
Russian Federation
77.3
73.7
69.6
Poland
64.3
65.8
63.9
Turkey
68.1
57.5
61.5e
Australia
71.4
62.8
60.7
Greece
63.0
53.9
48.0
India
46.5
44.3
47.2
Czech Republic
43.5
40.4
38.2
Bulgaria
33.4
28.6
31.2
Serbia
38.2
40.3
29.9
Romania
33.9
24.7
23.6
Thailand
18.1
17.6
18.0
Hungary
9.3
9.6
9.6
8.5
Canada
9.5
9.0
Kosovo
8.0
8.2
8.2
Other
45.7
45.5
42.2
World
887.2
834.7
810.5
Australias production increased by 25.3 Mt or 15.9%

in 2014. This was on top of a 12.6 Mt increase in
2013 following diminished production due to two
years of adverse weather conditions in 2011 and 2012.
There was a small increase in indigenous production
for coking coal in the Peoples Republic of China of
1.1%, which actually exceeded a projected plateauing
of pig iron production in 2014, while imports of coking coal actually declined by 13.0 Mt.
(1) Lignite does not include oil shale and oil sands.

Following its 1989 peak of 1 210.9 Mt, world lignite

production generally declined through to 1999, largely
as a result of contractions of demand and supply in
Central and Eastern Europe. Production stabilised
from 2000 onwards in countries that were major producers, such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece,
Romania, the Russian Federation and Serbia, however
it has fallen by 8.6% in the past two years, with reductions evident in most of the major producers. In 2014,
the largest reduction in production occurred in Serbia
and was due to extensive flooding.
Peat production
Provisional peat data are not currently collected for
non-OECD countries and economies, so the most recent, full years data for global production comes
from 2013 where production rebounded from record
lows to increase by 78.8%. Productions (or harvests)
can be highly variable and are weather dependent for
both access to the peat bogs and for outdoor drying.
Disruptions in 2012 for Ireland and Finland were
prominent, with Irelands production of 1 452 kt being
the lowest since IEA records began in 1960. Additionally OECD (6.1 Mt) and World (10.6 Mt) totals in
2012 were the lowest since records began in 1971.
The previous global low production record was
10.8 Mt in 1998, and peat production has followed a
relatively steady decline from 31.5 Mt in 1990 and
69.5 Mt in 1971.
Table II.6: Major peat producers [Mt]
2013
Finland
4.1
7.0
6.8
Ireland
1.5
6.7
4.6
Belarus
2.7
2.3
..
2014p
Russian Federation
1.2
1.5
..
Sweden
0.5
0.6
0.5
Ukraine
0.4
0.5
..
Other OECD
0.2
0.3
0.2
Other non-OECD
0.1
0.1
..
OECD total
6.1
14.5
12.1
Non-OECD total
4.4
4.4
..
10.6
18.9
..
Oil shale and oil sands production

Until the 2014 edition, oil shale and oil sands did not
exist as a product in its own right, and data, if reported, were aggregated with lignite due to some very
broad similarities with calorific value. This edition is
the second edition to report oil shale and oil sands
data as its own product.
Currently there are only two mature time series for oil
shale and oil sands despite potential for this to be expanded. Data for Israel only go back to 1990, while
Enerfit, an Estonian company is looking to export its

latest liquefaction technologies, plant and process to
Jordan and the United States, while above ground
retorting of oil sands for the production of shale oil
with or without immediate further refining, could be
viewed as liquefaction of oil sands by countries where
this practice already occurs on a large scale, and reported in a manner similar to that of Estonia.
Production data for oil shale and oil sands are shown
in Table 1.7 in Part III.
Trade
World coal trade
2012
World
Estonias data also begin in 1990 for all products, as

prior to this, Estonia was included within the Former
Soviet Union. Countries that have utilised oil shale as a
fuel in the past include Australia, Germany, the Russian
Federation, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom
(mainly Scotland, particularly with cannel coal), the
United States and others, including the Former
Soviet Union.
Export trade of all types of coal in the world rose

slightly by 0.7% in 2014, to reach a record level of
1 383.6 Mt (Table II.7). This is an increase of 28.5%
since 2010, and total exports have more than doubled
(121.6%) over 2000 levels. This included 1 053.8 Mt
of steam coal exports and 321.8 Mt of coking coal
exports. The lower growth in comparison to recent
years was due to steam coal exports declining by
18.3 Mt, or 1.7%.
Table II.7: World coal trade [Mt]
Steam coal exports
Coking coal exports
Lignite exports
Steam coal imports
Coking coal imports
Lignite imports
Total exports
Total imports
Balancing item
2012
985.0
282.7
6.8
1 031.1
262.5
4.3
1 274.5
1 297.9
23.4
2013
1 072.2
295.9
6.6
1 102.1
285.7
3.9
1 374.7
1 391.7
17.1
2014p
1 053.8
321.8
8.0
1 125.3
293.5
4.9
1 383.6
1 423.6
40.1
Note: The balancing item is the difference between total coal

imports and total coal exports. This is primarily due to the
different coal classification methodologies used by the importing and exporting countries, which does not hold on a global
basis. It also occurs because of coal in-transit, coal that is
unaccounted for, and reporting discrepancies by importing
and exporting countries.
The breakdown between coking coal, steam coal, and

lignite statistics in world coal trade is affected by the
practice of some countries. For example, Australia
includes some types of coal (soft or semi-soft coking
coal, used for blending or as PCI) in their coking coal
statistics; however, other countries may include this
trade in their steam coal import statistics.
The note for the balancing item leans heavily on the
notes in Tables 3.2-3.4 in Part III, and the notes in
Part I. The balancing item used here is for total global
trade, so classification differences should not impose,
even though they are noticeable when looking at imports and exports by type in the table above.
Yet in recent years imports have been consistently
higher than exports, suggesting at first glance creation
of coal through double counting of imports or nonreporting of exports. This is not the case! What is predominantly occurring here is data for Australia, India
and Japan are being provided on a fiscal rather than
calendar basis. For small countries, or where annual
changes are small, this does not have a sizeable impact, however in this instance, India is currently the
worlds second largest importer, with imports growing
26.8% in 2014, and Australia is currently the worlds
second largest exporter, with exports growing by
11.6%. If these two countries had been reported on a
calendar-year basis, imports would have been roughly
15 Mt lower and exports would have been roughly
20 Mt higher in 2014, leaving a balancing item of
5 Mt out of exports of 1.4 Gt.
Global trade has been growing faster that global consumption on a relatively consistent basis, as evidenced
in Figure II.4, which compares regional trade data as a
portion of corresponding consumption on an energy
basis. While it is not entirely proper to compare regional exports to consumption in that region, global
exports (i.e. international trade) reached a record share
of total consumption (23.1%), up from 11.1% in 1980,
16.6% in 1990 and 18.5% in 2000. In one sense it tells
a story of globalisation opportunity, as while World
TPES for steam and coking coal combined grew by
301% since 1971, exports grew by 844%.
Figure II.4: Steam and coking coal trade as a percentage of consumption

50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
OECD imports
Non-OECD imports
World trade
OECD exports
Non-OECD exports
Some sub-bituminous coal prior to 1978 is unintentionally excluded.

Calculations are based on energy, not tonnage.
Outside of the general growth parameters, some of

this was partly necessary as local production dwindled
in some countries, but equally in others, readily available international supplies enabled local production to
be suppressed, or simply for coal to remain a competitive, secure and reliable energy source in a national
portfolio in either event. In addition to this, some nations with no coal resources are either building coalfired power stations with the intent to import coal, or
are switching from other fuels to coal for for cement
manufacture.
Given that the base consumption data are consistent
(but not shown); this chart can also be used to visually
compare ratios of imports to exports for OECD and
non-OECD regions. It is also interesting to see
non-OECD exports almost keeping pace with the
large increases in production in recent years seen
in other charts. Most telling of all, even though the
Peoples Republic of Chinas coal consumption grew by
186% between 2001 and 2013 and even though this is
not visible here, it strongly contributed to global growth
of 71.4% of steam and coking coal consumption, but
global trade grew faster still, with exports increasing by
100.0% over this period.
Exports
Indonesia became the world's leading coal exporter
in 2011 with total exports reaching 356.2 Mt, compared to 284.5 Mt for Australia. In 2013, both counINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
tries showed strong growth as Australia increased exports by 34.6 Mt, or 11.5% while Indonesia increased
exports by 40.5 Mt or 10.5%.
Other
Figure II.5: Total coal exports by major exporters [Mt]
Statistics for total coal exports presented in this table are

shown for selected countries with historic data in Part III,
Table 3.16.
450
World
51.2
55.7
50.3
1 274.5
1374.7
1 383.6
Data for Australia are provided on a fiscal basis.
400
350
For 2013 data and onwards, the Netherlands made a conscious decision to stop trying to account for coal in transit. As a consequence there was a very large increase in
both their imports and exports, and potential inflation to
trade totals as there now could be double counting and
we have the curious position of the worlds 7th largest
coal exporter being a country with no indigenous coal
production.
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Australia
Indonesia
South Africa
Colombia
Russian Federation
United States
In 2014, exports from Australia grew by 38.9 Mt or

11.6%, while exports from Indonesia actually declined by 17.0 Mt or 4.0%. The third largest exporter,
the Russian Federation increased exports by 14.8 Mt
or 10.5%. Exports from the United States decreased
significantly in 2014 by 17.3% or 18.4 Mt while
South African and Colombian export levels remained
relatively constant.
The Peoples Republic of Chinas ranking dropped to
15th in terms of largest coal exporters exporting 5.6 Mt,
and disappearing from Table II.8. This is less than an
eighth of the amount they exported in 2008 (45.3 Mt)
and less than a sixteenth of what they exported in 2003
(94.0 Mt).
2012
2013
2014p
387.4
301.5
131.7
114.1
83.3
76.0
13.7
34.8
32.7
20.9
12.0
15.2
427.9
336.1
140.8
106.7
80.2
74.6
31.9
39.1
33.8
18.4
16.7
12.8
410.9
375.0
155.5
88.3
80.3
76.4
38.7
34.5
28.9
19.3
15.6
9.9
Total world coal imports were 1 423.6 Mt in 2014, a

2.3% increase over 2013 numbers (Table II.9). This
31.9 Mt of additional trade was spread around, with
most areas reporting moderate increases. Notable exceptions were India increasing imports by 50.6 Mt and
The Peoples Republic of China decreasing imports
by 35.6 Mt.
Figure II.6: Total coal imports by major importers [Mt]
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Table II.8: Major coal exporters [Mt]
Indonesia
Australia
Russian Federation
United States
Colombia
South Africa
Netherlands
Canada
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
DPR of Korea
Viet Nam
Imports
PR of China
India
Korea
Germany
Japan
Chinese Taipei
Total imports by the Peoples Republic of China reduced by 10.9% in 2014, to 291.6 Mt from a record
327.2 Mt in 2013. This downturn was predominantly
for coals from Indonesia (-19.4 Mt), South Africa
(-7.0 Mt), Viet Nam (-6.3 Mt) and the United States
(-5.2 Mt).
Table II.9: Major coal importers [Mt]
PR of China
India
Japan
Korea
Chinese Taipei
Germany
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Turkey
Russian Federation
Malaysia
Thailand
Brazil
Italy
Spain
Philippines
Other
OECD Americas
Steam coal trade
2012
2013
2014p
288.8
164.2
183.9
124.3
64.6
49.0
24.4
44.8
29.2
30.3
22.6
18.6
16.5
24.5
22.4
11.7
178.2
327.2
188.8
195.6
126.5
66.0
54.3
46.7
49.4
26.6
29.4
22.1
18.7
18.0
20.1
13.7
14.2
174.4
291.6
239.4
187.7
130.9
67.1
57.0
54.7
40.6
29.8
25.3
23.6
20.9
20.4
19.9
16.4
15.2
183.1
35.9
34.4
35.3
OECD Asia Oceania
322.3
335.5
329.7
OECD Europe
258.1
276.7
280.5
OECD Total
616.3
646.5
645.6
Africa + Mid. East
Total world steam coal exports decreased by 18.3 Mt or

1.7% in 2014 (Table II.10). In terms of change in tonnage, the Russian Federation (14.6 Mt) and Australia
(12.5 Mt), both provided substantial increases, while
Indonesia (16.1 Mt) and the United States (16.0 Mt),
both provided substantial decreases.
Table II.10: Major steam coal exporters [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
Indonesia
Australia
Russian Federation
Colombia
South Africa
Netherlands
United States
Kazakhstan
DPR of Korea
Viet Nam
Mongolia
Poland
Other
384.3
159.2
112.5
81.7
75.3
13.7
50.6
30.0
12.0
15.2
9.7
5.5
35.2
424.3
182.1
117.5
79.0
74.0
31.9
47.1
31.4
16.7
12.8
10.5
8.6
36.3
408.2
194.6
132.0
78.8
76.0
33.1
31.1
26.5
15.6
9.9
9.1
6.7
32.1
World
985.0
1 072.2
1 053.8
14.0
11.6
16.5
592.2
659.2
686.7
Oth. Europe + Eurasia
54.8
52.7
48.3
Other Americas
20.7
21.7
26.6
681.7
745.2
778.0
Statistics for steam coal exports presented in this table are

shown for selected countries with historic data in Part III,
Table 3.21.
1 297.9
1 391.7
1 423.6
Other Asia Oceania
Non-OECD Total
World
Data for India and Japan are provided on a fiscal basis.

Statistics for coal imports presented in this table are shown for
selected countries with historical data in Part III, Tables 3.5 and
3.7.
Looking at the OECD Asia Oceania and non-OECD

Asia Oceania (including China) regions combined, we
can see that total imports reached 1 016.4 Mt, or
71.4% of all imports, with the top five individual importers being from this area in 2014, as was the case
in 2012 and 2013. This was also the first year that
imports to this area passed one billion tonnes16. The
following five importing countries were from Europe
or Eurasia. However their combined imports of
207.5 Mt, inflated as they were with the Netherlands
data, were still 84.1 Mt less than the Peoples
Republic of Chinas alone, even with its 35.6 Mt
downturn in 2014.
Indonesias world steam coal market share declined

slightly from 39.5% to 38.7%. Australia, the
Russian Federation, Colombia and South Africa followed in the trade break-down with respective shares
of 18.5%, 12.5%, 7.5% and 7.2%.
In 2014, steam coal imports in the Asia-Oceania market
increased by 23.2 Mt to reach 809.3 Mt (Table II.11),
245.2 Mt of which was to OECD countries. AsiaOceania imports represented 71.9% of total world
steam coal trade in 2014, up from 71.3% in the previous year.
The Peoples Republic of Chinas steam coal imports
shrank by 9.0% to 229.1 Mt in 2014. Other major importers in the region were India (188.7 Mt up
41.8 Mt), Japan (137.0 Mt, down 3.4%), Korea
(97.1 Mt up 0.7 Mt) and Chinese Taipei (59.8 Mt
up 0.6 Mt). In 2014, the major steam coal suppliers to
this Asia Oceania market were Indonesia, Australia,
the Russian Federation, South Africa, Mongolia and
the United States (Table 3.3, Part III).
16. Total world trade for all coal types has only exceeded one billion
tonnes for the years since 2010 inclusive.
Table II.11: Major steam coal importers [Mt]
PR of China
India
Japan
Korea
Chinese Taipei
Germany
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Malaysia
Turkey
Russian Federation
Thailand
Italy
Philippines
Spain
Hong Kong (China)
Other
OECD Americas
2012
2013
2014p
235.2
128.9
131.7
92.7
59.1
39.8
20.3
39.7
22.6
23.7
26.7
18.6
19.7
11.7
20.2
12.4
128.2
251.8
146.9
141.8
96.3
59.2
46.5
42.5
43.2
22.1
20.9
26.0
18.7
17.3
14.2
11.1
13.0
130.7
229.1
188.7
137.0
97.1
59.8
47.3
44.5
34.3
23.6
23.6
22.6
20.9
17.6
15.2
14.8
13.8
135.4
29.0
27.2
27.2
OECD Asia Oceania
238.5
251.4
245.2
OECD Europe
207.9
226.9
222.2
OECD Total
Africa + Mid. East
475.4
11.0
505.5
10.4
494.7
14.7
Other Asia Oceania
497.4
534.7
564.1
37.6
40.4
36.3
9.7
11.1
15.4
555.7
596.6
630.6
1 031.1
1 102.1
1 125.3

Other Americas
Non-OECD Total
World

Statistics for steam coal imports presented in this table are
shown for selected countries with historic data in Part III, Tables
3.10 and 3.12.
In 2014, 15.4 Mt of steam coal was imported by nonOECD American countries, 60.9% of which went to
Brazil. The largest supplier to the non-OECD Americas
was Colombia, followed by the United States and
South Africa.
Coking coal trade

Total world coking coal export trade increased by
8.8% to 321.8 Mt in 2014 (Table II.12). Australia remained by far the largest exporter of coking coal at
180.5 Mt, accounting for 56.1% of coking coal trade,
up from 52.0% in 2013. In fact in 2014, exports of
coking coal from Australia increased by 26.5 Mt,
while global increases were only 25.9 Mt.
Table II.12: Major coking coal exporters [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
Australia
United States
Canada
Russian Federation
Mongolia
Netherlands
Mozambique
Indonesia
Czech Republic
Poland
New Zealand
Other
142.4
63.4
30.7
17.7
10.9
0.0
3.0
3.1
2.9
1.6
2.2
3.3
154.0
59.6
35.0
21.5
7.7
0.0
3.1
3.6
2.2
2.3
2.1
3.5
180.5
57.2
31.1
21.1
10.1
5.6
3.8
2.7
2.4
2.1
1.7
2.2
World
282.7
295.9
321.8
Steam coal imports in the Europe/Eurasian market

were 258.6 Mt in 2014, 8.7 Mt lower than in 2013.
This market now represents 23.0% of total world
steam coal trade, as compared to 39.9% in 2000 and
65.4% in 1991, which included new international
trade between members of the Former Soviet Union.
Within the region, the major Europe/Eurasian importers were Germany (47.3 Mt), the Netherlands
(44.5 Mt), the United Kingdom (34.3 Mt, down from
43.2 Mt), Turkey (23.6 Mt), the Russian Federation
(22.6 Mt), and Italy (17.6 Mt). The 2014 main steam
coal suppliers to this market were the Russian Federation,
Colombia, the United States, Kazakhstan, and
South Africa.
In the OECD Americas, steam coal imports remained
constant at 27.2 Mt in 2014. The largest supplier to
the North American market was Colombia, followed
by trade between Canada and the United States.
Statistics for coking coal exports presented in this table are

shown for selected countries with historic data in Part III, Table
3.21.
Several different types of coking coal are being exported from Australia, which include hard coking
coals from Queensland and semi-soft coking coal
from New South Wales. The 180.5 Mt number is for
the period from July 2013 to June 2014, so Australias
numbers, provided on a fiscal basis actually tend to be
lower than numbers provided on a calendar basis in
times of solid growth.
The 180.5 Mt of coking coal exports from Australia in
the 2014 fiscal year, actually exceed the entire global
trade in coking coal as recently as 1999 (179.2 Mt,
99.2 Mt of which came from Australia).
The United States remained as the second-ranked coking coal exporter with a volume of 57.2 Mt, down
from 59.6 Mt in 2013, while third-ranked Canada ex-
ported 31.1 Mt of coking coal, an 11.3% decrease

under 2013 levels.
Coking coal imports reported by Asia Oceania countries remained relatively constant in 2014 at 207.0 Mt,
as compared to 208.5 Mt in 2013. Trade to this region
amounted to 70.5% of total international coking coal
trade in 2014.
Japan accounted for 17.3% (50.7 Mt) of the world
market in 2014, but was only the 3rd largest importer
of coking coal behind the Peoples Republic of China
and now, India (Table II.13). In 1978, when the distinction between coking coal and other bituminous
coal began, Japan imported a strikingly similar
amount (50.9 Mt) of coking coal; however that constituted 44.6% of global imports.
Table II.13: Major coking coal importers [Mt]
2012
PR of China
India
Japan
Korea
Brazil
Netherlands
Germany
Chinese Taipei
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Turkey
France
Canada
Slovak Republic
Poland
Italy
Other
OECD Americas
OECD Asia Oceania
OECD Europe
53.6
35.3
52.2
31.5
10.6
4.1
9.3
5.5
11.7
5.1
5.5
4.7
4.4
2.6
1.6
4.8
20.1
2013
75.4
41.9
53.9
30.2
10.6
4.2
7.8
6.7
6.8
6.2
5.8
5.2
3.4
2.6
2.3
2.9
20.0
2014p
62.4
50.7
50.7
33.8
11.0
10.1
9.7
7.3
7.1
6.3
6.3e
5.0
3.9
2.7
2.4
2.4
21.7
6.8
7.1
8.0
83.8
84.0
84.5
48.5
48.2
55.9
139.1
3.0
139.4
1.2
148.4
1.7
Other Asia Oceania
94.8
124.4
122.5
14.7
10.1
9.6
OECD Total
Africa + Mid. East
Other Americas
11.0
10.6
11.2
Non-OECD Total
123.5
146.3
145.1
World
262.5
285.7
293.5

Statistics for coking coal imports presented in this table are
shown for selected countries with historic data in Part III, Tables
3.09 and 3.11.
Other major importers in the Asia Oceania not

mentioned above include Korea (33.8 Mt) and
Chinese Taipei (7.3 Mt). The major coking coal sup-
plier to this regional market in 2013 was Australia,

with 68.2% of the supply, followed by Canada
(11.2%), Mongolia (6.9%), the United States (6.0%)
and the Russian Federation (4.9%).
Coking coal imports to the Europe/Eurasian market
were 65.5 Mt in 2014, an increase of 7.2 Mt from 2013.
Within the region, the major importers were: the
Netherlands (10.1 Mt), Germany (9.7 Mt), Ukraine
(7.1 Mt), the United Kingdom and Turkey (6.3 Mt),
and France (5.0 Mt). The Netherlands value is inflated
as it also exported 5.6 Mt of coking coal in 2014. The
main coking coal suppliers to this market were the
United States, Australia and the Russian Federation.
In 2014, non-OECD Americas had imported 11.2 Mt
of coking coal, the majority (11.0 Mt) of which went
to Brazil. The main suppliers to this regional market
were the United States, Australia and Canada.
Lignite trade
While trade in low calorific coals is increasing and we
do have some statistics for lignite trade, the vast majority of coal that is currently traded as lignite on
global markets tends to be classed as sub-bituminous
coal, or in some cases even other bituminous coal
when it comes to compiling data, and consequently is
currently included under steam coal in either instance.
Coke oven coke trade

In 2014, the OECD countries imports of coke oven
coke (15.5 Mt), grew by 2.2 Mt to their highest level
since the global economic downturn, which had in particular impacted upon demand for steel in OECD countries in 2009 (Table 3.13, Part III). This followed on
from a similar increase of 2.1 Mt between 2012 and
2013.
Germany accounted for 22.8% of the OECD coke
imports in 2014 as imports increased by 48 kt to
3 537 kt. Japan became the second hightest importer
in 2013, importing 2.0 Mt of coke oven coke, and increased this to 3.2 Mt in 2014. Austria dropped to the
OECDs third highest importer in 2013, behind Japan,
and despite relatively constant production since 2010,
was also overtaken by Italy in 2014 as large decreases
in Italian production were partially replaced by
imports in 2013 and 2014. A reported decline in production of blast furnace gas indicates that some of
these imports may not be being used for pig iron production in blast furnaces.
Exports of coke oven coke from the OECD countries declined in 2014 by 117 kt to 11.7 Mt (Table 3.22,
Part III). This resulted in net imports to the OECD of
3.8 Mt the highest since 2008. Poland (6.7 Mt) contributed more than half of all OECD coke oven coke
exports in 2014, as has been the case every year since
2010. Major countries of destination were relatively
close geographically, and were Germany (1.6 Mt), Italy
(1.2 Mt), Austria and Ukraine (0.8 Mt), and Romania
(0.6 Mt).
Putting these trade numbers in some context, the largest consumer of coke oven coke in the OECD (Japan)
consumed over 42.3 Mt in 2014, and OECD consumption of coke oven coke was 125.5 Mt, up 2.3 Mt
from 2013, but down 22.4 Mt from 2000 and 53.2 Mt
from 1990 (Table 2.7, Part III). This places importation of coke oven coke in OECD countries at around
one eighth of consumption (12.4%).
One could also compare global exports of coking coal
and coke oven coke for 2013, where 20.6 Mt of coke
oven coke were exported, but 295.6 Mt of coking coal
were exported, a figure almost 15 times larger.
In 2013, non-OECD imports grew by 1.1 Mt or 9.5%
as, while some countries increased their imports and
others decreased it, Indias coke oven coke imports
grew by 1.1 Mt to 4.2 Mt.
Within the other non-OECD countries, Brazil (1.9 Mt),
the Islamic Republic of Iran (1.0 Mt), Kazakhstan
(0.8 Mt) and Romania (0.7 Mt) were the main importers.
Exports from non-OECD countries decreased by
1.1 Mt to 8.7 Mt with the Russian Federation (2.5 Mt),
Colombia (2.1 Mt), Ukraine (2.0 Mt) and the Peoples
Republic of China (1.0 Mt) being the major exporters,
with these four countries providing 88.0% of non-OECD
exports.
Seaborne trade
Total seaborne trade increased in 2014, despite a decrease in seaborne and total trade of steam coal, where
decreases in steam coal exports from Indonesia
(-16.1 Mt) and the United States (-16.0 Mt) were
met by decreases in steam coal imports in the
Peoples Republic of China (-22.6 Mt) and the
United Kingdom (-8.9 Mt), but were offset by increases to India (41.8 Mt).
Table II.14: World seaborne coal trade [Mt]

Steam coal exports
Of which: seaborne
Coking coal exports
Of which: seaborne
Total exports
Of which: seaborne
See Table 3.1, Part III
2012
985.0
893.7
282.7
246.4
1 274.5
1 144.0
2013
1 072.2
959.5
295.9
262.2
1 374.7
1 223.7
2014p
1 053.8
944.8
321.8
282.9
1 383.6
1 232.2
Methodology for Estimating Seaborne Coal Trade

Seaborne coal trade is limited to international trade, so
excludes domestic seaborne trade. It is estimated as exports
from all countries with the following exceptions. Hard coal,
steam and coking coal are calculated similarly:
Europe:
- Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece,
the Netherlands, and the Slovak Republic excludes
continental Europe main rail and inland waterways shipping
routes
- Greece excludes FYR of Macedonia
- Poland excludes one third of all exports to Germany and
all exports to Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Romania, the Slovak Republic, the former Soviet
Union and former Yugoslavia
- Former Yugoslavia excludes intra-Former Yugoslavia
trade
Former Soviet Union Republics excludes all exports to
Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland
and the Slovak Republic and excludes intra-ex-Soviet Union
trade
North / South America:
- Argentina
excludes Chile
- Brazil
excludes Uruguay
- Canada
excludes to the United States
- Chile
excludes Argentina
- Colombia
excludes to Venezuela
- United States
excludes to Canada, Mexico
- Uruguay
excludes Brazil
- Venezuela
excludes to Colombia
Asia:
- China
- Cambodia
- DPR Korea
- India
- Myanmar
- Viet Nam
excludes to the DPR Korea, Mongolia

excludes to Viet Nam
excludes to China, Mongolia
excludes neighbouring countries
except China
excludes China, the DPR Korea,
the Russian Federation
excludes to Thailand
excludes to Cambodia
Africa:
- South Africa
- Zimbabwe

- Mongolia
Consumption
Total coal consumption17
Different coals, even within the same coal type can
have very different carbon and energy contents, so it
is useful to look at the energy value of the coal, rather
than just its mass.
In 2014, total global coal consumption in energy terms
decreased by 0.9% or 49.0 Mtce, as OECD consumption decreased by 30.1 Mtce and non-OECD countries
decreased consumption by 18.9 Mtce (Table II.15). The
new OECD coal consumption level of 1 430.0 Mtce
was the lowest level since 198318 and was 13.6% lower
than the maximum coal consumption by OECD countries of 1 655.2 Mtce in 2007.
Recent events dictated that as OECD countries initially
rebounded from the onset of the economic crisis in
2009, so did their coal consumption increasing from
1 466.8 Mtce (at the time, this was the lowest value
since 1995) to 1 540.4 Mtce in 2010. This was then
followed by two years of declines, firstly 30.3 Mtce in
2011 and then 60.6 Mtce in 2012, leaving OECD TPES
at the lowest level since 1984. The largest contributing
factor behind this change had been fuel switching for
electricity generation in the United States, where US
annual declines of coal consumption amounted to
34.1 Mtce in 2011 and 77.1 Mtce in 2012. However,
2013 began with a very cold winter and this and other
factors meant that the United States consumption in
2013 was 11.3 Mtce higher than it was in 2012, and
thus overall 2013 OECD consumption was higher
than in 2012 by 10.7 Mtce.
As a consequence of the fall in consumption in 2014,
the OECDs ratio of global, coal-based consumption
declined to its lowest value ever (25.8%) (Figure II.7).
This can be compared to the Peoples Republic of
Chinas contribution to coal-based TPES (51.2%), and
it is evident that not only is their consumption more
than the rest of the world combined, but given the varying growth trajectories expected for coal consumption
in OECD and non-OECD countries in the forthcoming
17. Total coal refers to the sum of anthracite, other bituminous coal,
coking coal, sub-bituminous coal and lignite, converted to a common
energy unit, million tonnes of coal equivalent (Mtce).
18. OECD Total and other OECD aggregates are back-dated for the
entire country timeline. e.g. When Israel joined in 2010, its entire dataset from 1971 onwards was added to OECD Asia Oceania and OECD
Total aggregates. However, data for Estonia and Slovenia only exist for
1990 onwards, so when looking at data prior to 1990 for these
timeseries, we are effectively comparing 34 OECD countries to 32.
years, it is not unreasonable to expect that the rest of

the World, excluding China will surpass OECD consumption in the near future.
Table II.15: Total coal consumption [Mtce]
(selected countries)
2012
2013
2014p
606.9
160.9
109.8
112.3
79.1
67.1
49.6
55.8
27.2
24.3
22.7
21.8
13.0
11.4
15.7
8.7
12.2
11.6
4.9
34.5
618.2
172.4
110.9
114.3
82.2
65.8
46.1
52.7
24.4
22.9
18.8
15.7
17.5
11.5
17.1
9.5
10.0
10.0
4.8
35.3
615.8
165.3
115.4
109.4
77.5
62.7
51.4e
42.2
27.0
23.2
17.8
16.6
15.8
12.9
12.6
10.0
9.4e
8.6
4.6
32.2
PR of China
India
Russian Federation
South Africa
Chinese Taipei
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Indonesia
Thailand
Brazil
Viet Nam
Malaysia
DPR of Korea
Philippines
Hong Kong (China)
Bulgaria
Serbia
Romania
Other Non-OECD
European Union
Total IEA
Total OECD
Total Non-OECD
2 690.2
452.5
169.7
138.5
56.4
53.4
62.4
42.9
23.4
19.9
22.6
22.6
15.8
12.4
10.9
9.8
10.8
10.1
57.5
413.8
1 413.5
1 449.4
3 881.6
2 920.1
483.8
156.5
136.3
57.6
52.9
60.5
45.0
24.6
21.6
22.4
21.9
16.0
15.4
11.4
8.4
11.1
7.5
60.3
401.3
1 421.1
1 460.1
4 133.2
2 836.0
550.5
149.5
132.7
58.9
54.4
48.4
46.7
26.3
24.6
24.5
23.7
16.2
15.8
12.1
9.0
8.4
7.1
69.6
373.2
1 393.2
1 430.0
4 114.3
World
5 331.0
5 593.3
5 544.3
OECD Countries
United States
Japan
Korea
Germany
Poland
Australia
Turkey
United Kingdom
Canada
Czech Republic
Italy
Spain
Mexico
Netherlands
France
Chile
Israel
Greece
Slovak Republic
Other OECD countries
Non-OECD Countries
See Table 2.2 in Part III for historical data.

Data for Australia, India and Japan are provided on a fiscal
basis.
The term total coal refers to the sum of anthracite, other
bituminous coal, coking coal, sub-bituminous coal and lignite
after conversion to a common energy unit (tonne of coal
equivalent - tce). The conversion is done by multiplying the
calorific value of the coal in question by the total volume of
the coal consumed, measured in physical units, i.e. in tonnes.
The energy content of one tonne of coal equivalent is
29.3 Gigajoules (GJ) or 7000 kcal and corresponds to 0.7

tonnes of oil equivalent (toe).
Consumption refers to Total Primary Energy Supply.
Figure II.7: World coal consumption [Mtce]

6 000
60%
4 000
40%
2 000
20%
0%
OECD Europe
OECD Americas
Other non-OECD
China %
OECD Asia Oceania

China (Incl. Hong Kong)
World total
OECD %

On an energy basis, and including all primary coal types,

77.9% of world coal consumption was accounted for
by just five countries in 2014: the Peoples Republic
of China (excluding Hong Kong, (China)), the
United States, India, the Russian Federation and Japan
(Table II.15), which closely resembles the status in
2013 (77.8%). If a second set of five countries are
added to the 2013 list, South Africa, Korea, Germany,
Poland and Australia; then 86.8% of the world coal
consumption is accounted for.
Of the top 10 consumers, which accounted for 86.8%
of global consumption, 8 of them had a decline in
consumption in 2014 from 2013. Indian coal consumption grew by 13.8% in energy terms, while
Korean consumption grew by 4.0%, however Poland
(-5.8%), Australia (-4.7%), the Russian Federation
(-4.5%), Germany (-4.2%), Japan (-4.1%), China
(-2.9%), South Africa (-2.6%) and the United States
(-0.4%) all consumed less coal in 2014.
Outside of the top 10, consumption in the
United Kingdom dropped dramatically by 20.0%, as
steam coal consumption fell by 22.1% or 10.1 Mtce,
as electricity generated from steam coal decreased by
25.5% in one year, to 97.3 TWh the lowest level
since IEA records began in 1960, and less than half
the United Kingdoms annual production in the period
between 1986 and 1991.
Of the top coal users worldwide on a per capita basis

(Table II.16), we see that Kazakhstan is currently the
top consumer with 3.15 tonnes of coal equivalent per
person, followed by Australia with 2.66 tce/capita.
India, whose coal consumption is climbing rapidly,
currently consumes 0.44 tce/capita.
To date, the Peoples Republic of Chinas per capita
coal consumption peaked in 2013 at 2.15 tce/capita,
while historically Poland has exceeded 4 tce/capita in
some years, and the Czech Republic, 5 tce/capita.
Table II.16: Per capita coal consumption [tce/capita]
Kazakhstan
tce /
capita
2014 pop
(millions)
2014p
17.3
54.4
3.15
2.66
Australia
23.6
62.7
Chinese Taipei
23.5
58.9
2.51
South Africa
54.0
132.7
2.46
Korea
50.5
115.4
2.29
Czech Republic
China Region
Poland
Mongolia
United States
Boznia and Herzegovina
Germany
Japan
10.5
23.1
2.20
1 377.3
2 848.1
2.07
38.5
77.5
2.01
2.9
5.7
1.99
319.0
615.7
1.93
3.8
6.9
1.80
82.4
109.4
1.33
127.2
165.3
1.30
Bulgaria
7.2
9.0
1.24
Kosovo
1.8
2.2
1.20
Serbia
7.1
8.4
1.18
Israel
8.1
9.4e
1.15e
45.4
48.4
1.07
143.0
149.5
1.05
2.1
1.9
0.90
OECD Americas
492.2
668.5
1.36
OECD Asia Oceania
213.9
354.7
1.66
OECD Europe
562.3
406.8
0.69
Total OECD
1 268.3
1 430.0
1.13
Total non-OECD
5 929.4
4 114.3
0.69
World
7 197.7
Ukraine
Russian Federation
F.Y.R. of Macedonia
5 544.3
than in 2013 for these two countries, and their annual

consumption has fallen sharply from 1.55 tce/capita,
down to 1.16 tce/capita, and from 1.33 tce/capita to
1.06 tce/capita respectively.
In addition, whilst coal consumption in OECD countries has been falling since 2007 (1.36 tce/capita), it
still consumes 1.13 tce/capita compared to the rest of
the world, which consumes 0.69 tce per person.
Total coal consumption decreased for the first time
since 1999 after 14 consecutive years, and in terms of
tonnage, nearly 3.5 Gt, of increase in annual growth
as global coal consumption fell by 71.4 Mt to
7 923.2 Mt independently of financial pressures. Declines occurred in both OECD (-46.9 Mt, -2.2%) and
non-OECD countries (-24.5 Mt, -0.4%).
Figure II.8: Per captia consumption [tce/capita]
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Australia
Germany
Poland
South Africa
Kazakhstan
Czech Republic
Japan
United States
PR of China
0.77
Coal reported here is primary coal (steam coal, coking coal and
lignite).
Consumption data for Australia and Japan are provided on a

fiscal basis.
For non-OECD countries, 2014 population data are extrapolated
from 2012-2013 growth rates.
Due to mine flooding in Serbia, and the unrest in

Ukraine, 2014 consumption data are significantly lower
Table II.17: Per capita coal consumption [tce/capita]

1990
Australia
2.99
2000
2010
mained stable, increasing by 157 kt from 642.6 Mt to

642.8 Mt
3.61
3.23
Figure II.9: World coal consumption [Mt]
Kazakhstan
3.43
1.86
2.99
9 000
South Africa
2.70
2.66
2.83
8 000
Chinese Taipei
0.79
1.90
2.51
7 000
Czech Republic
4.47
3.04
2.45
United States
2.63
2.69
2.32
Poland
3.05
2.18
2.21
Korea
0.85
1.28
2.11
PR of China
0.65
0.79
1.77
3 000
Bosnia and Herzegovina
1.32
0.92
1.62
2 000
Mongolia
1.63
1.08
1.53
1 000
Serbia
1.44
1.49
1.43
Israel
0.69
1.46
1.38
Kosovo
6 000
5 000
4 000
..
0.81
1.35
Germany
2.33
1.41
1.34
OECD Europe
OECD Asia Oceania
Bulgaria
1.46
1.11
1.32
OECD Americas
China (Incl. Hong Kong)
Other non-OECD
World total
Hong Kong (China)
1.38
0.80
1.29
Japan
0.90
1.10
1.28
Ukraine
2.33
1.14
1.22
Finland
1.02
0.91
1.15
OECD Americas
1.85
1.91
1.62
Non-OECD consumption
OECD Asia Oceania
1.06
1.37
1.67
OECD Europe
1.26
0.88
0.76
Total OECD
1.43
1.35
1.24
Total non-OECD
0.38
0.36
0.62
World
0.60
With the exception of India (66.6 Mtce), the coalbased consumption of no other non-OECD country
grew by more than 3 Mtce in 2014. Consumption in
the Peoples Republic of China declined by 2.9%
(84.1 Mtce), as consumption in non-OECD countries
reduced by 0.5% to 4 114.3 Mtce.
0.55
0.73
Coal reported here is primary coal (steam coal, coking coal and
lignite).
Consumption data for Australia and Japan are provided on a

fiscal basis.
See Table 2.3 in Part III for more historical data.
The fourteen consecutive years of growth in coal consumption that occurred until 2013, did so with an average increase of 248.0 Mt (4.2%) per annum, as
global consumption increased from 4 523.2 Mt in
1999 to 7 994.6 Mt. Positive annual growth remained,
even in the global financial crisis, as in 2009, annual
growth from the Peoples Republic of China
(252.1 Mt) and India (71.1 Mt) offset decreases experienced elsewhere.
OECD consumption
In OECD Europe, coal consumption is reported to
have declined to 405.1 Mtce in 2014, a 5.2% decline
from the level of consumption in 2013, while total
coal consumption in the OECD Asia Oceania region
was 345.3 Mtce, a decrease of 6.0 Mtce (Table 2.2,
Part III). Consumption in the OECD Americas reINTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
In 2015, the Chinas National Bureau of Statistics

reported that their 2014 coal production had decreased
by 2.5% and consumption by 2.9%, even as GDP increased by 7.4% to 63.6 billion yuan.
This was due in part to a diminished share of electricity generation, with coal inputs falling by 1% despite
total electricity production increasing by more than
3%. This was mainly due to 2014 being a very good
year for hydro resources, with generation of hydroelectricity growing by around 180 TWh. Significant
growth in generation from wind, nuclear and solar
was also a factor.
In 2014, India overtook the United States to become
the worlds second largest consumer of coal on a tonnage basis19, and passed Japan to become the second
largest coal importer.
19. Because coals endemic to India tend to have a very high ash content, India has reached number two in consumption in terms of weight
Coal consumption peaked in the United States in 2005

at 1 029.7 Mt. At the same point in time, consumption
of coal in the worlds third largest consumer, India,
was 463.1 Mt. This was only 45% of the U.S. total,
but easily surpassed the next biggest consumers
Germany (241.9 Mt) and the Russian Federation
(214.6 Mt). In the nine years since then, consumption
in India has grown by 95.6% (at an annual rate of
7.7%) to reach 906.5 Mt, while consumption in the
United States has decreased overall by 18.9% to
835.4 Mt, which is now only 19.4 Mt higher than its
level in 1990.
Steam coal consumption

(1)
Table II.18: Major steam coal
consumers [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
PR of China
India
United States
South Africa
Japan
Korea
Russian Federation
Kazakhstan
Poland
Indonesia
Chinese Taipei
Australia
Germany
United Kingdom
Ukraine
Viet Nam
Canada
Other
3 126.4
647.4
729.1
181.4
131.6
94.7
92.9
67.2
64.4
57.1
59.5
57.1
42.0
58.4
46.5
28.3
27.5
314.1
3 399.8
666.7
750.8
178.2
141.8
98.5
84.6
67.1
66.1
59.8
59.3
54.8
50.2
53.6
47.2
28.1
27.5
314.5
3 279.9
757.3
746.6
174.4
137.0
100.3
77.2
67.1
60.8
59.9
59.8
51.1
45.6
41.8
36.2
30.7
30.6
329.9
World
5 825.5
6 148.7
6 086.2
(1) Steam coal comprises anthracite, other bituminous coal

and sub-bituminous for all countries.
basis.
World steam coal consumption was down 1.0% in

2014, decreasing by 62.5 Mt (Table II.18). Steam coal
consumption in the OECD decreased by 34.5 Mt to
1 365.1 Mt, including a decrease of 11.8 Mt in the
United Kingdom. Viewed on a regional basis, steam
coal consumption sharply decreased by 8.5% in
OECD Europe, while it decreased by 2.4% in OECD
Asia Oceania and 0.4% in OECD Americas.
Non-OECD steam coal consumption decreased by
0.6% to 4 721.1 Mt in 2014. An increase in consumption by India (90.6 Mt), Brazil (4.4 Mt) and Viet Nam
of coal, but remains behind the United States for now in terms of both
carbon content (and thus CO2 emissions) and energy obtained.
(2.6 Mt) were more than offset by decreases in the

Peoples Republic of China (-119.9 Mt), Ukraine
(-10.9 Mt) and the Russian Federation (-7.4 Mt).
Coking coal consumption

Coking coal consumption in the OECD (Table II.19)
increased marginally by 0.4% to 180.2 Mt in 2014,
but remains 8.8% below the pre-economic crisis level
in 2008.
Table II.19: Major coking coal consumers [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
PR of China
India
Russian Federation
Japan
Korea
Ukraine
United States
Kazakhstan
Germany
Poland
Brazil
Chinese Taipei
Turkey
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Australia
Other
559.3
81.8
56.9
52.2
31.7
26.9
19.0
12.7
18.4
11.6
10.8
5.8
6.6
6.0
4.6
4.1
3.7
38.9
626.4
93.2
52.5
53.9
29.4
24.2
19.4
12.7
12.5
12.6
10.5
6.6
6.5
6.7
5.2
4.1
3.5
35.8
629.5
102.1
54.8
50.7
32.9
20.6
18.7
15.0
13.5
12.4
10.9
7.3
7.1e
6.3
4.9
4.3
3.7
37.4
World
950.9
1 015.6
1 032.1

basis.
Coking coal consumption has generally been declining in the OECD since the mid-1980s. Several factors
have combined to weaken coking coal consumption.
First, there is the growing use of pulverised coal injection (PCI) and heavy fuel oil injection into blast
furnaces. Coal used for PCI can be classified as being
of steam coal quality, so steam coal is displacing coke
oven coke (usually manufactured from coking coal) as
a carbon source. Second, the steel industries in the
OECD countries are experiencing technological evolution where traditional integrated steel production,
which relies on coke oven coke, is losing ground to
electric arc furnace technology, which does not require coke. Third, there has been a general migration
of integrated steel manufacturing from the OECD to
non-OECD countries.
World consumption of coking coal in 2014 is estimated to have increased by 1.6% to 1 032.1 Mt, an increase of 568.1 Mt (122%) since 2001. Consumption
within the Peoples Republic of China accounts for
61.0% of global coking coal consumption. The next

five major coking coal consumers are: India, the
Russian Federation, Japan, Korea and Ukraine. Together they account for another 25.3% of world annual coking coal consumption.
While OECD consumption fell to a record low in 2009
as a result of the global financial crisis and the temporary downturn in demand for cars and other steel
products, increases in non-OECD consumption that
year, outweighed the downturn, and global consumption of coking coal has increased for 13 straight years.
In 2014, OECD coking coal consumption amounted to
17.5% of global consumption (Figure II.10).
Figure II.10: World coking coal consumption [Mt]
1 200
1 000
800
600
400
200
A global consumption figure of 804.8 Mt is the lowest

since records began in 1978 prior to then, only data
for brown coal were collected. Contributing to the
3.1% downturn were the following national decreases;
Serbia (10.1 Mt), Greece (7.3 Mt), Germany (5.5 Mt),
the Russian Federation (4.0 Mt), Australia (2.2 Mt),
and Poland (2.1 Mt).
Table II.20: Major lignite consumers [Mt]
2012
2013
2014p
Germany
United States
Russian Federation
Poland
Turkey
Australia
India
Greece
Czech Republic
Bulgaria
Serbia
Romania
Thailand
Hungary
Canada
Kosovo
F.Y.R. of Macedonia
Other
185.2
72.1
77.6
64.2
68.5
71.4
45.9
61.9
42.4
33.0
38.6
33.8
18.7
9.6
9.4
8.0
7.4
36.2
182.5
69.7
73.3
65.9
55.3
62.8
43.9
54.4
38.9
28.7
40.3
25.0
19.1
9.7
8.9
8.3
6.8
36.7
177.0
70.1
69.3
63.8
61.5e
60.7
47.2
47.1
38.7
31.2
30.2
23.9
18.0
9.2
8.4
8.2
7.2
33.3
World
883.7
830.8
804.8
Japan
PR of China
OECD total
World
While coking coal can be used directly in blast furnaces as PCI or GCI, or as a high quality, low ash coal
for other purposes, its main use is to be transformed
into coke oven coke. Coke oven coke production has
increased by 95% between 2000 and 2013 on a global
basis, and more specifically by 165% over the same
period in non-OECD countries. During this time, global
production of pig iron in blast furnaces increased by
103% to reach a record level of 1.17 Mt in 2014.
The OECD countries mostly used their coking coal
for the production of coke oven coke. In 2014, they
produced 121.8 Mt of coke oven coke and consumed
125.6 Mt (Tables 1.8 and 2.7, Part III).
Lignite consumption
Consumption of lignite on a global basis decreased
by 25.5 Mt or 3.1% in 2014 (Table II.20). Germany
remained the largest producer and consumer of
lignite, using 177.0 Mt, ahead of the United States
(70.1 Mt), and the Russian Federation (69.3 Mt).
Currently, production and consumption of lignite are

reported as sub-bituminous coal in Indonesia, and
under other bituminous coal (along with subbituminous coal) in the Peoples Republic of China.
Both reclassifications significantly affect lignite statistics, as Indonesia has extensive lignite resources and
reserves and markets for coals of lower quality exist,
while the Peoples Republic of China is most likely
the second largest producer and consumer of lignite
globally, if not the largest.
Lignite consumption in OECD countries decreased by
8.0% from 2011 to 543.4 Mt a minimum since lignite data began in 1978. The previous minimum
OECD total was actually 556.5 Mt consumed in 2013,
however significant decreases in consumption in
Germany (-5.5 Mt), Australia (-2.2 Mt) and Poland (2.1 Mt) contributed to a further overall decrease of
13.1 Mt in 2014.
Lignite consumption in OECD Europe also fell to a
record low of 403.3 Mt, down by 43.8% from
718.1 Mt in 1987.
Figure II.11: World lignite consumption [Mt]

1 400
1 200
1 000
Mt
800
Ukraine
Korea
United States
Germany
Brazil
Chinese Taipei
Turkey
Other
World
600
17.8
15.8
14.4
11.5
11.9
5.5
4.2
55.1
16.9
15.1
14.0
11.2
11.6
5.3
4.5
50.2
16.3
15.1
13.0
11.5
11.3
5.7
4.6
50.4
625.2
637.9
670.3

400
200
0
OECD Americas
OECD Asia Oceania
OECD Europe
Germany
Non-OECD
World total
The largest consumer of coke oven coke in the OECD

Japan consumed over 42.3 Mt in 2014, and OECD
consumption of coke oven coke was 125.5 Mt, up
2.3 Mt from 2013, but down 22.4 Mt from 2000 and
53.2 Mt from 1990 (Table 2.7, Part III).
Uses of coal

Following its 1989 peak of 1 213.3 Mt, world lignite

consumption declined as a general trend through to
1999, largely as a result of contractions of demand
and supply in Central and Eastern Europe. Production
stabilised from 2000 onwards in countries that were
major producers, such as Australia, Canada, Germany,
Greece, Romania, the Russian Federation and Serbia,
however global consumption has fallen by 8.9% in
two years (78.8 Mt), with reductions evident in most
of the major consuming nations. Additionally, in
2014, the largest individual reduction in consumption
occurred in Serbia, and was due to extensive flooding.
Figure II.12: Primary coal percentage used for electricity and commercial heat production
100%
90%
80%
Coke oven coke consumption

Coke oven coke statistics for non-OECD countries are not
available for 2014. However, in 2013, OECD countries account for 18.3% of world coking coal consumption as total global consumption was reported as
being 670.3 Mt (Table II.21). Consumption within the
Peoples Republic of China (437.7 Mt), contributed
65.3% of global consumption and 80.0% of nonOECD consumption in 2013. This is 12.8 times more
than the second largest non-OECD consumer, the
Russian Federation and 10.8 times larger than Japans
2013 consumption.
Table II.21: Major coke oven coke consumers [Mt]
PR of China
Japan
Russian Federation
India
Coal continues to be primarily used for the generation

of electricity and commercial heat, with 68.0% of
primary coal being used for this purpose globally in
2013, and 83.5% in OECD countries (Figure II.12).
The dip evident in the OECD and World time series
between 2001 and 2007 was due to the United States
producing large amounts of patent fuel, which then
was used for similar purposes as other bituminous
coal, so did not alter the breakdown of power and heat
generated from coal and coal products.
2011
2012
2013
393.4
38.8
33.7
22.7
409.7
39.3
34.6
25.5
437.7
40.6
34.1
30.0
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
OECD total
Non-OECD total
World
PR of China
Coal comprises steam coal, coking coal and lignite. Power and
commercial heat produced from derived products is not shown
here, and instead counts as consumption in transformation to
manufacture the secondary fuel.
The percentage of coal used for electricity and commerical heat generation in OECD countries was 49.9%
in 1971 and this rapidly grew to 67.5% in 1983 as replacements were sought for oil as a fuel source for
power generation in the wake of the oil shocks that
occurred in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, there were
significant declines of coal use in the OECD in BKB
manufacture (in the order of 60%), while use in industry declined by approximately 30% and use in other
sectors roughly halved, resulting in a further steep increase in the share of coal being used for power and
heat generation, as it reached 77.7% in 1992 (Figure II.13).
Figure II.13: Primary coals OECD breakdown
by broad activity [Mt]
3 000
partly due to the downturn in other coal uses exceeding

that of the downturn of use in power and heat generation during the financial crisis, but primarily because
use of coal as a fuel for power and heat generation
peaked in the OECD in 2008 at 1.96 Gt, and has since
fallen to 1.77 Gt as total coal consumption has declined
from 2.35 Gt to 2.09 Gt over the same period.
The percentage of coal used in heat and power in nonOECD countries was 35.7% in 1971 and has increased at
a relatively steady rate to be 62.0% in 2013, down from
62.5% in 2012. Over this period, like for OECD countries, there was a similar decline of use of coal in the
residential and commercial and public service sectors
from the late 80s and through the 90s (Figure II.14).
Figure II.14: Primary coals breakdown by broad activity in non-OECD countries [Mt]
2 500
6 000
2 000
5 000
1 500
4 000
1 000
3 000
500
2 000
0
1 000
Residential
Iron and steel
Other
Electricity/heat
Residential also contains data for the Commercial and public

services sector. Iron and steel includes coke oven coke manufacture and PCI/GCI. In addition to other conventional consumption, Other includes non-specified industry, which may contain
iron and steel consumption, and also non-energy uses.
For more information, see world consumption data in Section 5
of Part III, and world end-use tables and the World balance, both
in Part V.
In the 1990s, BKB manufacture continued to decline,

and declined by more than 90% in OECD countries
between 1989 and 1999, while coal use in industry
halved and coal use in other sectors declined by a further two-thirds. So by 2000, coal use in heat and power generation in OECD countries had increased by
121% as compared to 1971, while use of primary
coals in the iron and steel industry had declined by
33%, use in residential had declined by 74% and use
in all other sectors had declined by 66%, with the resultant share of coal in heat and power generation increasing to 82.8%.
The percentage of coal used in heat and power in
OECD countries peaked at 85.4% in 2009. This was
Residential
Iron and steel
Other
Electricity/heat
Residential also contains data for the Commercial and public

services sector. Iron and steel includes coke oven coke manufacture and PCI/GCI. In addition to other conventional consumption, Other includes non-specified industry, which may contain
iron and steel consumption, and also non-energy uses.
For more information, see world consumption data in Section 5
of Part III, and world end-use tables and the World balance, both
in Part V.
Additionally, the large increase in coal consumption

for iron and steel is evident, driven primarily by increased production in China, while coal use for electricity and heat generation has increased by 744% in
non-OECD countries since 1971, as inputs grew from
0.40 Gt in 1971 to 1.04 Gt in 1990, 1.46 Gt in 2000,
before reaching 3.40 Gt in 2013.
In OECD countries in 2014, the share of electricity
and heat produced from primary coal as a fuel fell to
a new low of 31.5%, down from 44.4% in 1985
(Figure II.15). Looking at the three OECD regions, we
see differing pathways, with OECD Europe declining
to 24.7% in 2014 from 49.1% in 1971, while the

OECD Americas grew from 41.0% in 1971 to 49.8%
in 1988 before gradually declining to 42.0% in 2008.
Since 2008, the share of electricity and heat in the
OECD Americas generated from coal has dropped
sharply to 33.9%. Meanwhile in OECD Asia Oceania,
generation from coal has risen from 15.6% in 1979 to
24.3% in 1985, before rising again in the 90s to 35.4%
in 2001, and was 38.9% in 2013.
ty generated from coal-fired plants in OECD countries

fell by 2.1% to 3 508 TWh. Heat produced in combined heat and power (CHP) or heat only plants was
765 PJ during this period. This combined heat and
electricity energy was generated using 1 169 Mtce of
coal and coal products, at an average efficiency of
39.1%. Coals share of total electricity and heat generation in OECD countries (31.9%) is a decrease from
33.6% in 2010 (Table 5.5, Part III).
Figure II.15: Coals share of electricity and commercial heat production, outputs by region in EJ
Whether it happens to be a case of positive or negative growth, the Peoples Republic of China continues
to strongly influence global markets and statistics,
partly due to the sheer size of its market share. In
2013, it was estimated that the Peoples Republic of
China produced 436 Mt of coke oven coke (65.8% of
world production), 822 Mt of crude steel (49.8% of
world production), 709 Mt of pig iron (60.7% of
world production), and around 2.42 Gt of cement
(59.3% of world production)20, and preliminary 2014
data for Chinese coal indicated that:
- Coal consumption (TPES) 21 shrank to
2 836.0 Mtce (or 51.2% of world consumption);
and
- production shrank by 2.5% or 96.1 Mt; and
- net imports fell by 31.5 Mt to 286.0 Mt as exports fell
to 5.6 Mt, but imports decreased further by 10.9%.
100%
100
80%
80
60%
60
40%
40
20%
20
0%
Other non-OECD
OECD Europe
OECD Americas
OECD Americas %
OECD Europe %
World %
PR of China
OECD Asia Oceania
OECD total %
OECD Asia Oceania %
Non-OECD total %
PR of China %

1 EJ = 277.8 TWh.
To date, despite the wide variety of factors influencing positive and negative growth in this regard, the
share of heat and power generated from coal has remained around 40% over the last 40 years of data as
generation outputs have grown over fourfold from
22.3 Exajoules in 1971 to 97.8 EJ in 2013.
The break in time series around 1990 in the nonOECD data is due to the data being reported by the
Commonwealth of Independent States being in the
order of 7 Exajoules higher than what was reported by
the Former Soviet Union in the preceding year.
Gross electricity production in 2014 in the OECD
(excluding generation from pumped storage plants)
was 10 773 TWh, a decrease of 0.8%, while electrici-
Pulverised coal injection (PCI)

The latest available data for 2013 shows that total PCI
consumption increased by 1.7% or 0.8 Mt (Table II.22).
Consumption increases in Japan (0.9 Mt), the
United Kingdom (0.4 Mt), and France and Germany
(0.3 Mt), were offset by decreases in Italy (1.0 Mt) and
Korea (0.2 Mt). The top five reported PCI consumers
(Japan, Korea, Germany, the Russian Federation and
India) accounted for 72.8% of all PCI consumption. It
would however be remiss to not point out that many
emerging economies are using PCI techniques and are
injecting metallurgical quality coal, but are not yet
providing statistics in this area. For example, reasonable estimates for the magnitude of PCI use in the
20. Iron and steel data are provided by the World Steel Association
and cement data by the United States Geological Survey.
21. Consumption (TPES) when discussed with regard to production,
imports, exports and stock changes, differs to consumption calculated
from sectoral end-use consumption data by the statistical difference. The
statistical difference reflects unexplained differences caused by different
data collection methodologies, application of conversion factors and so
forth. The magninitude and volatility of the statistical difference over the
years may lead to issues when calculating some specific growth rates for
the Peoples Republic of China. (For more information, see the Coal
balance in Part V.) See definitions in Part I for more information.
Peoples Republic of China could outweigh the entire

table below in its current form by a factor of more
than two on an annual basis. Estimates for 2013 show
105.6 Mt of other bituminous coal being consumed in
their iron and steel industry the exact percentage of
that which is fed into blast furnaces is unknown.
Table II.22: PCI used in blast furnaces
(major consumers in thousand tonnes)
2011
2012
2013
Japan
Korea
Germany
Russian Federation
India
France
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Chinese Taipei
Belgium
Italy
Spain
Turkey
Slovak Republic
Australia
Sweden
Poland
Norway
Serbia
12 689
9 414
3 772
4 605
2 860
2 309
2 046
995
1 284
1 379
892
1 328
708
459
421
760
438
80
..
..
13 816
9 286
4 157
3 885
3 023
2 284
1 423
987
1 436
1 020
1 066
1 856
617
676
605
538
356
194
111
40
14 681
9 092
4 460
3 831
3 037
2 598
1 461
1 411
1 303
1 111
1 087
815
759
744
576
515
443
141
112
25
World
46 439
47 376
48 202

basis.
Data for OECD countries are shown here as submitted, and
this may differ from consumption data available elsewhere
where portions may have been moved from blast furnace
transformation to consumption in the iron and steel industry
as part of the IEA blast furnace model.
Coal remained the largest source of anthropogenic CO2

emissions at 13.9 Gt, and the 172 Mt annual increase of
emissions was 44% of the worlds 2012 increase.
In 2013, OECD coal-based emissions increased marginally (0.9%) from 3.91 Gt to 3.95 Gt (Table II.23).
These 36.9 Mt of extra emissions could be explained as
the result of emissions in the United States increasing
by 3.5% or 56.3 Mt due to a severe winter in 2013,
but of the other 33 OECD countries; 16 had a combined decrease of 81.9 Mt, while the remaining 17
shared an increase of 62.5 Mt.
Japans emissions increased by 30.8 Mt or 7.3%, as a
result of limited electricity generation from nuclear
power in 2013. While this was also the case in 2012,
the shortfall in generation, while load managed was
met by other generation methods including use of
crude and heavy fuel oils. In 2013, generation from
other bituminous coal increased by 11.6% or 31 TWh,
while generation from heavy fuel oil decreased by
21.2% or 20 TWh, and generation from crude decreased by 8 TWh or 13.9%.
Since 1971, coal-related emissions have increased by
168% from 5.2 Gt to 13.9 Gt in 2012 passing 8.3 Gt
in 1990, to now account for 43.9% of CO2 emissions
(Figure II.16). Coal, since 2004, is the leading source
of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, outstripping
those from oil and natural gas and other sources.
Emissions of CO2 from coal have grown by 4.1% on
an average annual basis (or 460 Mt/y) since 2002. A
large majority (83.3%23) of which has come from rapid growth in the Peoples Republic of China.
See Table 5.4 in Part III for other countries and historical
data. Includes granular coal injection for some countries.
Data for PR China are not available.
On a tonnage basis, Belgium (45%) and France (43%)

displayed the highest proportion of PCI inputs into
blast furnaces, while the average for the countries
shown in Table II.22, which reported PCI/GCI use
came to 24.4%. Poland (7%), the Russian Federation
(10%), and India (11%), showed the largest potential
for increasing this ratio, subject to plant constraints.
CO2 emissions
Global CO2 emissions from fuel combustion grew
again in 201222, increasing by 390 Mt to reach 31.7 Gt.
22. The latest year where global sectoral emissions data are available at
time of publication.
23. Excluding the Peoples Republic of China, countries with growth

in emissions over this period, increased emissions by 768 Mt, while
emissions in the remaining countries decreased by 650 Mt. Thus, overall emissions increased by 4.60 Gt, of which the Peoples Republic of
Chinas contribution was 3.83 Gt or 83.3% of net growth, and 73.0%
of all growth.
Figure II.16: World CO2 emissions by fuel

16
14
12
Gt CO2
10
to CO2 emissions gradually declined from a peak of

53.4% in 1978 to under 45% in 1985. Since then, oils
contribution has largely continued to lessen in relative
terms, despite 2010 OECD road transport emissions
having increased in real terms to 2.9 Gt, or by 27%
since 1990 and 107% since 1971.
Oil, however, remains the main contributor to OECD
emissions and it generated 41.2% of the CO2 emissions in 2012 just as it did in 2011 and 2010. Coals
share of emissions decreased to 32.1% from 33.0%,
while natural gas increased its share of emissions
from 24.9% to 25.7% (Figure II.17).
8
6
4
2
0
Coal and peat
Oil
Natural gas
Figure II.17: OECD CO2 emission shares

by fuel
Other
Source: IEA/OECD CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion
60%
The annual growth in emissions from fossil fuels averaged 2.1% between 1971 and 1990, before averaging 1.3% between 1990 and 2000 and 2.4% between
2000 and 2011. This lower pace of growth in the
1990s is in part related to the collapse of the formerly
centrally-planned economies of Central and Eastern
Europe. Other important factors include the use of
more efficient technologies, fuel switching and renewable energy sources. The most prominent feature in
emission profiles since 2000 has been the rapid expansion of non-OECD economies which has caused
their emissions to increase on average by 5.0% between 2000 and 2012, with non-OECD coal emissions
increasing by 6.4% per annum over this period.
50%
World CO2 emissions have also been influenced by

changes in international energy prices. Oil had been
the largest contributor to world emissions until 2003,
even though the upward trend was interrupted by the
oil shocks of 1974 and 1980. Even after the decline in
oil prices after 1985, the growth in emissions was partially mitigated as consuming countries adopted more
energy-efficient technologies and behaviour, and
some fuel switching occurred. In fact, as OECD countries started diversifying their energy consumption
after the two oil shocks, their share of oil contributing
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Coal
Oil
Natural gas
Other
Source: IEA/OECD CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion
Between 1971 and 1985, coal was used as the main

replacement for oil and its share of emissions increased, especially between 1978 and 1985, from its
lowest point (31%) to its highest point (39%). After
1985, the share of emissions from coal declined consistently, and after 1993, coals share of emissions
remained between 33% and 35% of toal OECD emissions until the most recent decline.

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Changes from last edition .................................................................................................................... 3

List of electronic tables ......................................................................................................................... 4

Product definitions ............................................................................................................................... 6

Flow definitions Statistics ............................................................................................................... 12

Flow definitions Balances................................................................................................................ 23

Flow definitions Calorific values ..................................................................................................... 35

Geographical coverage definitions ................................................................................................... 37

Sources and notes .............................................................................................................................. 57

Geographical coverage notes ........................................................................................................... 73

Abbreviations, conversion factors and calorific values .................................................................. 75

World coal market review ................................................................................................................... 78

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World coal supply:

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OECD coal imports:

OECD coal exports:

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OECD coal statistics:

OECD coal balances:

OECD coal calorific values:

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moisture and ash and contamination by sulphur,

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For the Coal Information 2012 publication onwards,

and limited air access (initial stage of coalification). It

Oil shale should not be confused with shale oil. Shale

Oil shale and oil sands

Heat and electricity

2015 edition, definition changes

A solid formed from the partial decomposition of

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Coal and coal products

Hard coal refers to coal of gross calorific value greater than

A high rank coal used for industrial and residential applications. It

Coal with a quality that allows the production of a coke suitable to

Other bituminous coal

Non-agglomerating coals with a gross calorific value between

Non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value of less than

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Coke oven coke

A by-product of hard coal used for the production of town gas in

Coal tar is a result of the destructive distillation of bituminous coal.

Brown coal briquettes

Composition fuels manufactured from lignite/brown coal, produced