Coal Power Capacity by Country 2024
About This Dataset
Coal Power Capacity by Country 2024
Installed coal-fired electricity generating capacity by country at the end of 2024, in gigawatts, as reported by Ember.
Analysis
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
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China leads in Installed Coal Power Capacity (GW) with 1,173.40 in 2024.
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Average Installed Coal Power Capacity (GW) in 2024: 134 · median: 37.20.
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Gap in 2024: China is 88.2× larger than Malaysia.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Ember - Yearly Electricity Data
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2024 · 15 observations
- Measure
- Installed Coal Power Capacity (GW)
- Last updated
- 15 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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