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Coal mined per year, in millions of tonnes.

📅 2024📏 million tonnes42 entries
Each tile’s area is its share of the combined total of 8,776 Mt (42 entries). Stronger colour means a higher rank. The smallest 2 are merged into one grey tile.
1
🇨🇳China
4,403 Mt
2
🇮🇳India
1,013 Mt
3
🇮🇩Indonesia
836 Mt
4
🇷🇺Russia
476 Mt
5
🇦🇺Australia
468 Mt
6
🇺🇸United States
465 Mt
7
🇿🇦South Africa
237 Mt
8
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
113 Mt
9
🇩🇪Germany
92 Mt
10
🇵🇱Poland
85 Mt
11
🇲🇳Mongolia
83 Mt
12
🇹🇷Türkiye
79 Mt
13
🇨🇴Colombia
58 Mt
14
🇨🇦Canada
49 Mt
15
🇻🇳Vietnam
45 Mt
16
🇷🇸Serbia
31 Mt
17
🇨🇿Czechia
25 Mt
18
🇰🇵North Korea
23 Mt
19
🇺🇦Ukraine
20 Mt
20
🇱🇦Laos
18 Mt
21
🇲🇿Mozambique
16 Mt
22
🇵🇰Pakistan
15 Mt
23
🇧🇬Bulgaria
15 Mt
24
🇵🇭Philippines
15 Mt
25
🇹🇭Thailand
13 Mt
26
🇷🇴Romania
13 Mt
27
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
12 Mt
28
🇽🇰Kosovo
8 Mt
29
🇬🇷Greece
6 Mt
30
🇧🇷Brazil
6 Mt
31
🇲🇽Mexico
6 Mt
32
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
5 Mt
33
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
4 Mt
34
🇭🇺Hungary
4 Mt
35
🇲🇾Malaysia
3 Mt
36
🇲🇰North Macedonia
3 Mt
37
🇲🇲Myanmar
3 Mt
38
🇧🇼Botswana
3 Mt
39
🇳🇿New Zealand
3 Mt
40
🇹🇯Tajikistan
2 Mt
41
🇸🇮Slovenia
2 Mt
42
🇿🇲Zambia
2 Mt

Highlights

As of 2024, China ranks first with 4,403 Mt, followed by India (1,013 Mt) and Indonesia (836 Mt).

China is 4.3 times higher than India, the runner-up.

Across 42 countries and territories, values run from 4,403 Mt (China) to 2 Mt (Zambia), with a median of 16 Mt.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Asia, 3 from Europe, 1 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Oceania.

Source: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, coal production (via Wikipedia), 2024. Unit: million tonnes.

Source: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, coal production (via Wikipedia) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia); underlying data © the cited publisher · fetched Oct 13, 2026