World Estimated Recoverable Coal

Prof. Robert B. Laughlin
Department of Physics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iea2006/table82.xls
(Copied 2 Jan 09)


  Rank Order - World Estimated Recoverable Coal

Countries for which no information is available are not included in this list.
Rank
Country
Total Recoverable Coal
(million short tons)
Date of Information
1 World Total 930,423 2005
2 United States 263,781 2005
3 Russia 173,074 2005
4 China 126,215 2005
5 Australia 84,437 2005
6 India 62,278 2005
7 South Africa 52,911 2005
8 Ukraine 37,339 2005
9 Kazakhstan 34,502 2005
10 Former Serbia and Montenegro 15,306 2005
11 Poland 8,270 2005
12 Brazil 7,791 2005
13 Colombia 7,671 2005
14 Germany 7,394 2005
15 Canada 7,251 2005
16 Czech Republic 4,962 2005
17 Indonesia 4,771 2005
18 Greece 4,299 2005
19 Hungary 3,640 2005
20 Uzbekistan 3,307 2005
21 Bulgaria 2,200 2005
22 Pakistan 2,185 2005
23 Turkey 2,000 2005
24 Iran 1,528 2005
25 Thailand 1,493 2005
26 Mexico 1,335 2005
27 Chile 1,302 2005
28 Kyrgyzstan 895 2005
28 Albania 875 2005
30 Korea, North 661 2005
31 New Zealand 629 2005
32 Spain 584 2005
33 Zimbabwe 553 2005
34 Venezuela 528 2005
35 Argentina 467 2005
36 Romania 465 2005
37 Japan 391 2005
38 Philippines 348 2005
39 Slovakia 289 2005
40 Slovenia 256 2005
41 Mozambique 234 2005
42 Swaziland 229 2005
43 Tanzania 220 2005
44 Nigeria 209 2005
45 Greenland 202 2005
46 United Kingdom 171 2005
47 Vietnam 165 2005
48 Peru 154 2005
49 Korea, South 149 2005
50 Congo (Kinshasa) 97 2005
51 Niger 77 2005
52 Afghanistan 73 2005
53 Algeria 65 2005
54 Botswana 44 2005
55 Portugal 40 2005
56 Ecuador 26 2005
57 Egypt 23 2005
58 Ireland 15 2005
59 Zambia 11 2005
60 Italy 11 2005
61 Norway 6 2005
62 Malaysia 4 2005
63 Central African Republic 3 2005
64 Malawi 2 2005
65 Burma (Myanmar) 2 2005
66 New Caledonia 2 2005
67 Bolivia 1 2005
68 Nepal 1 2005
69 Taiwan 1 2005

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