The reserve life is an estimate based only on current
production levels and proved reserves level for the countries shown, and makes
no assumptions of future production or even current production trends. This is
a list of countries by coal productionin 2009 based mostly on
Statistical Review of World Energy 2010 published in 2010 by BP ranks countries
with coal production larger than 100 millions tonnes.
COUNTRY |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
SHARE |
RESERVE LIFE (YEARS) |
China |
2526.0 |
2782.0 |
3050.0 |
45.6 % |
38 |
USA |
1040.2 |
1062.8 |
973.2 |
15.8 % |
245 |
India |
478.4 |
521.7 |
557.6 |
6.2 % |
105 |
EU |
593.4 |
587.7 |
536.8 |
4.6 % |
55 |
Australia |
399.0 |
401.5 |
409.2 |
6.7 % |
186 |
Russia |
314.2 |
326.5 |
298.1 |
4.3 % |
150+ |
Indonesia |
217.4 |
229.5 |
252.5 |
3.6 % |
17 |
South
Africa |
247.7 |
250.4 |
250.0 |
3.6 % |
122 |
Germany |
201.9 |
192.4 |
183.7 |
2.6 % |
37 |
Poland |
145.9 |
143.9 |
135.1 |
1.7 % |
56 |
Kazakhstan |
97.8 |
111.1 |
101.5 |
1.5 % |
308 |
TOTAL WORLD |
6,421.2 |
6,781.2 |
6,940.6 |
100 % |
119 |