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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.

Rank	Country	Value
Electricity production from coal sources (% of total) - Energy production & use - Environment - World Development Indicators (2007)
1	Botswana	99.46
2	Mongolia	96.09
3	South Africa	94.74
4	Estonia	93.51
5	Poland	92.99
6	China	81.01
7	Macedonia	77.87
8	Australia	76.28
9	East Asia & Pacific	73.32
10	Hong Kong	73.27
11	Kazakhstan	70.34
12	Serbia	70.19
13	Israel	69.54
14	India	68.35
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	64.84
16	Lower middle income	62.71
17	Czech Republic	62.53
18	Sub-Saharan Africa	58.32
19	South Asia	58.18
20	Morocco	57.07
21	Greece	55.29
22	Bulgaria	52.32
23	Denmark	50.82
24	Germany	49.33
25	Middle income	49.09
26	United States	49.01
27	Low & middle income	47.55
28	Indonesia	44.88
29	Zimbabwe	42.95
30	Romania	41.03
31	North Korea	40.08
32	South Korea	40.08
33	High income: OECD	37.01
34	Slovenia	36.46
35	High income	36.21
36	United Kingdom	35.26
37	Ukraine	34.21
38	Malaysia	29.51
39	Europe & Central Asia	29.15
40	Philippines	28.24
41	Turkey	27.89
42	Japan	27.66
43	Netherlands	27.57
44	Portugal	26.44
45	Upper middle income	26.26
46	High income: nonOECD	25.64
47	Euro area	25.15
48	Spain	24.78
49	Chile	22.66
50	Thailand	21.40
51	Vietnam	21.36
52	Croatia	20.06
53	Ireland	19.73
54	Hungary	18.74
55	Slovakia	18.73
56	Canada	18.09
57	Finland	17.92
58	Russia	16.69
59	Italy	16.14
60	Dominican Republic	13.25
61	Guatemala	12.79
62	Austria	12.46
63	Mexico	12.26
64	Belgium	9.51
65	Low income	8.72
66	Namibia	7.14
67	New Zealand	7.13
68	Colombia	6.31
69	Latin America & Caribbean	5.21
70	France	5
71	Uzbekistan	4.99
72	Kyrgyzstan	3.33
73	Peru	2.82
74	Tanzania	2.71
75	Middle East & North Africa	2.43
76	Brazil	2.27
77	Argentina	2.17
78	Sweden	0.91
79	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	0.49
80	Zambia	0.20
81	Pakistan	0.14
82	Least developed countries: UN classification	0.11
83	Norway	0.11
84	Latvia	0.02
85	Cyprus	0
86	Bolivia	0
87	Kuwait	0
88	Lebanon	0
89	Libya	0
90	Sri Lanka	0
91	Cambodia	0
92	Lithuania	0
93	Luxembourg	0
94	Kenya	0
95	Moldova	0
96	Jordan	0
97	Jamaica	0
98	Malta	0
99	Burma	0
100	Mozambique	0
101	Iceland	0
102	Nigeria	0
103	Nicaragua	0
104	Iraq	0
105	Iran	0
106	Netherlands Antilles	0
107	Nepal	0
108	United Arab Emirates	0
109	Armenia	0
110	Oman	0
111	Azerbaijan	0
112	Panama	0
113	Benin	0
114	Bangladesh	0
115	Haiti	0
116	Bahrain	0
117	Paraguay	0
118	Qatar	0
119	Honduras	0
120	Belarus	0
121	Albania	0
122	Saudi Arabia	0
123	Sudan	0
124	Senegal	0
125	Singapore	0
126	El Salvador	0
127	Ghana	0
128	Brunei Darussalam	0
129	Switzerland	0
130	Gabon	0
131	Ivory Coast	0
132	Syria	0
133	Angola	0
134	Cameroon	0
135	Tajikistan	0
136	Turkmenistan	0
137	Trinidad and Tobago	0
138	Tunisia	0
139	Republic of the Congo	0
140	Georgia	0
141	Ethiopia	0
142	Eritrea	0
143	Uruguay	0
144	Egypt	0
145	Costa Rica	0
146	Venezuela	0
147	Ecuador	0
148	Yemen	0
149	Algeria	0
150	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0
151	Cuba	0
152	Togo	0

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