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Coal production by region. This is a list of countries by coal production ranking countries with coal production larger than 5 million tonnes as of 2023.
Russia is currently the fifth largest producer of coal, and has the second largest reserves, estimated at 175 billion. The majority of its coal is located east of the Ural Mountains in Siberia. By 1999 approximately a third of coal mining business was privatized.
Coal in India has been mined since 1774, and India is the second largest producer and consumer of coal after China, mining 997 million metric tons (1,099 million short tons) in FY 2023-24. Around 20% of coal is imported.
Largest producer Second largest producer Complete list Coal [1] China India: List of countries by coal production: Natural Gas [2] United States Russia: List of countries by natural gas production: Petroleum United States Russia: List of countries by oil production
The largest consumer and importer of coal is China. China mines almost half the world's coal, followed by India with about a tenth. Australia accounts for about a third of world coal exports, followed by Indonesia and Russia. [5] Coal is largely held in the Earth in areas that it needs to be mined from, and is generally present in coal seams.
Coal production of India. In 2023, India was both the second largest producer of coal and second largest consumer of coal, although for both statistics having less than a fourth of that of leading China. [10] India is planning to use 100 million tonnes of coal for gasification by 2030. [11]
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India is the second largest producer of coal in 2023. [63] India is also the second-largest importer of coal 141.7 Mtoe in 2018 and the second-largest consumer of coal with 452.2 Mtoe in 2018. [8] India is also home to the world’s largest coal company, Coal India Ltd, which controls 85% of the country’s coal production with 7.8% production ...