COAL DISTRIBUTION

COAL DISTRIBUTION
AROUND
AROUND THETHE
WORLD
WORLD
 COAL DISTRIBUTION

Coal is fossil fuel that can be found in many part of the

world. Many countries has been distributing this around the
world where it can fuel power plants to generate electricity.
Getting this fossil fuel follows a step by step process
including the retrival of coal from the land which is called
coal mining.
PROCESS IN RETRIEVING COAL
FROM THE LAND
 COAL DISTRIBUTION
IN THE WORLD
Coal is distributed in major parts of the
world and there are leading countries that
have been consuming and distributing
coal the most. This countries are The
China, India, USA, Australia and and
Indonesia.
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 3. UNITED STATES OF AMER
ICA

 In 2014 the US was the second largest coal

producer in the world with 922mt
 production has fallen to 684mt after a brie
f rise in 2016-17
 US Energy Information Administration (EI
A) predict that coal will fall from 24% to 20
% from 2019 to 2020
 4. AUSTRILIA

 remained steady in fourth place since 2014

 consistently hovering around the 500mt
 It is also the ninth-largest consumer of coal in
the world at 113mt
 5. INDONESIA

 Indonesian coal production has experienced

an astonishing rise in the last 30 years
 In 1990 the country produced just 10mt of c
oal, but in 2018 it produced 474mt
 having peaked at 492mt in 2013
 also particularly strong in exporting coal to c
ountries like China