Australia coal usage/consumption for 2023 was 46.50%, a 2.7% decline from 2022.
Australia coal usage/consumption for 2022 was 49.20%, a 3.64% decline from 2021.
Australia coal usage/consumption for 2021 was 52.84%, a 2.04% decline from 2020.
Australia coal usage/consumption for 2020 was 54.88%, a 3.57% decline from 2019.
Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). Peat is also included in this category. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Australia Coal Usage/Consumption Datasets (CSV).