Coal Power Capacity by Country 2024

About This Dataset

Installed coal-fired electricity generating capacity by country at the end of 2024, in gigawatts, as reported by Ember.

✨ AI Insight

China operates 1173.4 GW of coal capacity - more than every other country in the world put together (976 GW) and nearly five times second-placed India at 241.5 GW. The United States is third at 192.7 GW. What this ranking does not show is utilisation, and the difference is large: against 2024 generation, Indian coal plants ran at about 72% of their capacity and Chinese ones at 57%, while American and German plants managed only 39% and 38%. The gap in actual coal burned is therefore wider than the gap in capacity. Germany at 32.3 GW and Poland at 27.9 GW are the only EU members listed.

Source: Ember - Yearly Electricity Data

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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China leads with 1,173 in 2024.

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Average value in 2024: 134 · median: 37.

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Gap in 2024: China is 88.2× larger than Malaysia.