GLOBAL COAL CONSUMPTION

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• Asia is the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, accounting for 75 % of global demand. 
  
  
• China is the world’s largest consumer of Coal, followed by India, Japan and South Korea. China continues to emit more carbon dioxide than any other country. 
  
  
• Global coal consumption peaked in 2013 at 3,867 billion tonnes of oil equivalent, but that demand last year had declined merely 2.5 % below the peak. 
  
  
• South-East Asia was the only region in the world in which coal’s share of power generation grew last year.