Latin America & Caribbean Coal Usage/Consumption

Latin America & Caribbean coal usage/consumption for 2022 was 4.50%, a 0.5% decline from 2021.
  • Latin America & Caribbean coal usage/consumption for 2021 was 5.00%, a 0.2% decline from 2020.
  • Latin America & Caribbean coal usage/consumption for 2020 was 5.20%, a 0.6% decline from 2019.
  • Latin America & Caribbean coal usage/consumption for 2019 was 5.79%, a 0.21% 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.