China Coal Electricity Generation by Year 2010-2025

About This Dataset

Electricity generated from coal in China each year since 2010, in terawatt-hours, as published by Ember. Each bar is one calendar year.

✨ AI Insight

China generated 3,234 TWh from coal in 2010 and 5,772 TWh in 2025, an increase of 79%. The series contains only two declines: 2015, when output fell from 4,203 TWh to 4,046 TWh, and 2025, when it fell from 5,828 TWh to 5,772 TWh. That makes 2025 the first annual drop in a decade. Scale is the point of this chart - China's coal generation alone is roughly four times India's and larger than the entire electricity output of any other country in the world, the United States included.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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2024 leads with 5,828 in 2010-2025.

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Average value in 2010-2025: 4,639 · median: 4,597.

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Gap in 2010-2025: 2024 is 1.8× larger than 2010.