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PACIFIC
OCEAN
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
INDIA
SOUTH
AFRICA
RUSSIA
GERMANY
JAPAN
CHINA
INDIAN
OCEAN
Sources:
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2007
; US Department of Energy Information Administration (EIA),
International Energy
Annual 2004
, 2006; EIA,
System for the Analysis of Global Energy Markets
, 2007; World Energy Council,
Survey of Energy Resources 2004
;
Coaltrans World Coal Map 2005
; International Energy Agency; OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms, 2008; Atlas Environnement du Monde
Diplomatique 2007; Colin Campbell, Association for the study of peak oil and gas, 2007.
Asia Pacific
Africa
and Middle East
Europe
and Eurasia
In 2004 43 % of the
electricity produced in the
world came from coal.
In brown: share of lignite
and sub-bituminous coal
300
200
100
20
Thousand million tonnes
Coal reserves at the end of 2006