International Energy Agency Coal Information, 1960-2008

The International Energy Agency (IEA) datasets published by the Energy Statistics Division (ESD) contain annual and quarterly time series data from 1960 onwards on energy production, trade, stocks, transformation, consumption, prices and taxes as well as on greenhouse gas emissions for over the 30 OECD Member countries and over 100 non-OECD countries world-wide. In OECD Member countries the data are collected by official bodies (most often the national statistics office in each country) from firms, government agencies and industry organisations and are then reported to the IEA using questionnaires to ensure international comparability. In non-OECD countries the data are collected directly from government and industry contacts and from national publications. The International Energy Agency (IEA) Coal Information database contains a complete time series of coal statistics corresponding to the data shown in Part II of the annual IEA publication Coal Information. Selected tables from Part I of the publication are also included, as well as a database of worldwide coal statistics covering production, trade, use in transformation (electricity and heat production) and final consumption in industry and other sectors. The Coal Information database contains a time series of annual coal data for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and non-OECD countries from 1960 onwards. The Coal Information data is structured into four databases and a set of selected tables. The database is updated by the IEA in July each year. These data were first provided by ESDS International in June 2005 and are updated annually. The ESDS International web site includes further information on its IEA Coal Information holdings, including a database description and details of latest database updates. Main Topics:Topics covered include:

• coal production
• coal trade
• coal price
• coal demand
• coal supply
• use of coal in transformation (electricity and heat production)
• coal consumption in industry and other sectors