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Coal > Production	3,208,000 ton		[24th of 65]
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Coal consumption	149,500,000		[7th of 41]
DEFINITION: Billion short tons of coal consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: Source: Energy Statistics Database | United Nations Statistics Division
Commercial energy use	4,135.84		[22nd of 119]
DEFINITION: Commercial energy use (kg of oil equivalent per capita). Commercial energy use refers to apparent consumption, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport.
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electric generation ability	226,000,000 killowatts		[1st of 32]
Electric power consumption > kWh	1,031,262,000,000 kWh		[3rd of 132]
DEFINITION: Electric power consumption measures the production of power plants and combined heat and power plants less transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own use by heat and power plants.		View time series
SOURCE: Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy
Electricity > Production by source > Fossil fuel	60%		[134th of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Electricity > Production by source > Nuclear	29.8%		[15th of 223]
DEFINITION: The percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and other (solar, geothermal, and wind).		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Gasoline prices	1.74		[5th of 141]
DEFINITION: Ratio of premium gasoline price to world average Units: Ratio of Gasoline Price to World Average Units: Pump price for super gasoline (US$ per liter): Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars, and the ratio of the gas price to the world average in the same time period was used in order to normalize the data. For more information, see World Development Indicators, Table 3.12.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Geothermal power use	1,621		[8th of 53]
DEFINITION: Annual utilization of geothermal power from direct-use sources in GWh/yr as of 2000.
SOURCE: German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Fuel Prices and Taxation (1999) and the electronic update for2000. Available from World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002, WDI table 3.12. via ciesin.org
Natural gas reserves	20,020,000,000 cubic feet		[56th of 72]
SOURCE: Lund and Freeston; Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2000
Nuclear electricity generation	313.8 terawatt-hours		[4th of 29]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Nuclear energy consumption	314.9 terawatt-hours		[3rd of 28]
DEFINITION: Number of terrawatt-hours of nuclear energy consumed per country per year. Figures are provided for the year 2002.
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Nuclear reactors operable	53		[4th of 29]
SOURCE: BP
Oil imports > Net	5,300,000 barrels per day		[2nd of 21]
SOURCE: ANSTO, IAEA, WNA
Oil reserves	29,290,000 barrels		[75th of 97]
DEFINITION: According to Web definitions the term refers to the total amount of petroleum (oil) discovered in any given oil field or nation. Thus it can be said that Kuwait has xxxx millions of barrels (mb) of oil in the ground. However, the exact amount can never be known, simply because of the difficulty in sensing or "seeing" beneath the surface of the Earth. The term Proven Reserve or PR refers to an amount of oil that is generally accepted by geologists to be the actual amount of petroleum in the ground.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Primary Energy Consumption > Million tonnes oil equivalent	514.6		[4th of 63]
DEFINITION: Primary Energy: Consumption, Million tonnes oil equivalent, as of end of 2004 Notes: Others have less than 0.05
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Traditional fuel consumption	1.6%		[94th of 130]
DEFINITION: Traditional fuel consumption as a % of total energy use.
SOURCE: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2005
Usage per person	4.13 TOE per person		[11th of 18]
DEFINITION: Total primary energy supply TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per person (Year 2000).
SOURCE: World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC
Wall plugs > Voltage	100 V		[209th of 209]
DEFINITION: PowerStream
SOURCE: lEA, Energy Balances of OECD Countries 1999-2000 (lEA, Paris, 2001)
Wind energy installation	896.2 MW		[8th of 53]
DEFINITION: Worldwide wind energy installation figures per country as at 31 December 2004

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