Electricity production from fossil fuels (% of total)
Share of electricity generated from oil, gas and coal in total electricity generated by all types of plants, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Oil means crude oil and petroleum products; gas means natural gas (excluding natural gas liquids); coal means all coal and brown coal. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser (vintage last updated 2026-07-13). It completes the connector's electricity-mix decomposition alongside the coal-electricity-output-share and renewable-electricity-output-share datasets: fossil minus coal isolates the oil-and-gas share. India (77.59% in 2023) and China (64.40%) are the most fossil-reliant, France the least (7.44% in 2023, briefly 11.87% in 2022 when nuclear outages forced gas and oil plants to pick up the slack - a genuine upstream spike kept verbatim). Values are null where national statistics are unavailable and are never interpolated. Units: % of total electricity output.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 25, 2026
- Theme
- energy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of total electricity output) |
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World Bank. (2026). Electricity production from fossil fuels (% of total) [Data set, snapshot 20260925T011652Z-85b1378c2a66, sha256 85b1378c2a66]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-09-25, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/fossil_fuel_electricity_output_share?snapshot=20260925T011652Z-85b1378c2a66
@misc{dz_world_bank_fossil_fuel_electricity_outpu_85b1378c,
title = {{Electricity production from fossil fuels (\% of total)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/fossil_fuel_electricity_output_share?snapshot=20260925T011652Z-85b1378c2a66}},
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