Field Listing :: Electricity - from fossil fuels
This entry measures the capacity of plants that generate electricity by burning fossil fuels (such as coal, petroleum products, and natural gas), expressed as a share of the country's total generating capacity.
Country Comparison to the World
Country
Electricity - from fossil fuels(% of total installed capacity)
Afghanistan 23.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Albania 9.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Algeria 97.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
American Samoa 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Angola 56.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Argentina 66.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Armenia 55.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Aruba 88.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Australia 78.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Austria 61.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Azerbaijan 84.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Bahamas, The 100% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Bahrain 100% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Bangladesh 96% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Barbados 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Belarus 99.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Belgium 43.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Belize 51.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Benin 98.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Bermuda 98.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Bhutan 1.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Bolivia 58.9% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 50.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Botswana 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Brazil 19.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
British Virgin Islands 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Brunei 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Bulgaria 45.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Burkina Faso 87.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Burma 53.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Burundi 1.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cabo Verde 96.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cambodia 94.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cameroon 27.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Canada 31.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cayman Islands 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Central African Republic 43.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Chad 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Chile 62% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
China 69.5% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Colombia 32.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Comoros 83.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Congo, Republic of the 51.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Cook Islands 98.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Costa Rica 32.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire 50.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Croatia 45.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Cuba 99.3% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Cyprus 94.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Czech Republic 62.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Denmark 63% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Djibouti 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Dominica 19.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Dominican Republic 90.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Ecuador 55.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Egypt 87.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
El Salvador 52.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Equatorial Guinea 97.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Eritrea 98.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Estonia 93.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Ethiopia 9.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 90% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Faroe Islands 64.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Fiji 49% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Finland 52.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
France 22.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
French Polynesia 74.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Gabon 59% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Gambia, The 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Georgia 37.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Germany 55% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Ghana 40.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Gibraltar 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Greece 69.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Greenland 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Grenada 98.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Guam 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Guatemala 56.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Guinea 68.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Guinea-Bissau 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Guyana 96% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Haiti 79% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Honduras 63.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Hong Kong 100% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Hungary 72% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Iceland 4.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
India 70.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Indonesia 87% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Iran 86.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Iraq 69% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Ireland 76.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Israel 98.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Italy 65% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Jamaica 94.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Japan 63.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Jordan 99.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Kazakhstan 88.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Kenya 41.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Kiribati 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Korea, North 47.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Korea, South 71.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Kuwait 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Kyrgyzstan 20.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Laos 2.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Latvia 27.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Lebanon 87.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Lesotho 0% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Liberia 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Libya 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Lithuania 70.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Luxembourg 28.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Macau 100% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Macedonia 64.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Madagascar 65.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Malawi 0.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Malaysia 91.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Maldives 99.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mali 48.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Malta 99.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mauritania 63.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mauritius 75.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mexico 76.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Moldova 88.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mongolia 99.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Montenegro 24.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Montserrat 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Morocco 69.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Mozambique 0.1% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Namibia 33.3% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Nauru 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Nepal 7.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Netherlands 83.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
New Caledonia 76.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
New Zealand 31.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Nicaragua 66% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Niger 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Nigeria 67.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Niue 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Norway 2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Oman 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Pakistan 68.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Panama 52.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Papua New Guinea 61.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Paraguay 0.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Peru 60.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Philippines 66.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Poland 89.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Portugal 49% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Puerto Rico 97.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Qatar 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Romania 61.7% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Russia 67.7% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Rwanda 52.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saint Lucia 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 97.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 85.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Samoa 70.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Sao Tome and Principe 57.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Saudi Arabia 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Senegal 99.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Serbia 66.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Seychelles 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Sierra Leone 47.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Singapore 99.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Slovakia 42.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Slovenia 38% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Solomon Islands 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Somalia 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
South Africa 90.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
South Sudan 30.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Spain 48.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Sri Lanka 53.8% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Sudan 30.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Suriname 53.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Swaziland 59.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Sweden 13% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Switzerland 3.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Syria 89.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Taiwan 77.2% of total installed capacity (2011 est.)
Tajikistan 9% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Tanzania 33.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Thailand 89% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Togo 21.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Tonga 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago 99.7% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Tunisia 96.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Turkey 64.9% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Turkmenistan 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Turks and Caicos Islands 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Uganda 31.5% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Ukraine 64.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
United Arab Emirates 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
United Kingdom 75.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
United States 75.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Uruguay 39.8% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Uzbekistan 85.1% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Vanuatu 89.3% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Venezuela 35.7% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Vietnam 55% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Virgin Islands 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
West Bank 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Western Sahara 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
World 66.2% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Yemen 100% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Zambia 0.4% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)
Zimbabwe 66.6% of total installed capacity (2010 est.)