Lao PDR coal usage/consumption for 2022 was 23.87%, a 2.59% decline from 2021.
Lao PDR coal usage/consumption for 2021 was 26.45%, a 1.96% decline from 2020.
Lao PDR coal usage/consumption for 2020 was 28.41%, a 8.11% decline from 2019.
Lao PDR coal usage/consumption for 2019 was 36.52%, a 1.59% increase from 2018.
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. The full historical dataset is available for download here: Lao PDR Coal Usage/Consumption Datasets (CSV).