The reserve life is an estimate based only on current production levels and proved reserves level for the countries shown, and makes no assumptions of future production or even current production trends. This is a list of countries by coal productionin 2009 based mostly on Statistical Review of World Energy 2010 published in 2010 by BP ranks countries with coal production larger than 100 millions tonnes.
COUNTRY | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | SHARE | RESERVE LIFE (YEARS) |
![]() | 2526.0 | 2782.0 | 3050.0 | 45.6 % | 38 |
![]() | 1040.2 | 1062.8 | 973.2 | 15.8 % | 245 |
![]() | 478.4 | 521.7 | 557.6 | 6.2 % | 105 |
![]() | 593.4 | 587.7 | 536.8 | 4.6 % | 55 |
![]() | 399.0 | 401.5 | 409.2 | 6.7 % | 186 |
![]() | 314.2 | 326.5 | 298.1 | 4.3 % | 150+ |
![]() | 217.4 | 229.5 | 252.5 | 3.6 % | 17 |
![]() | 247.7 | 250.4 | 250.0 | 3.6 % | 122 |
![]() | 201.9 | 192.4 | 183.7 | 2.6 % | 37 |
![]() | 145.9 | 143.9 | 135.1 | 1.7 % | 56 |
![]() | 97.8 | 111.1 | 101.5 | 1.5 % | 308 |
TOTAL WORLD | 6,421.2 | 6,781.2 | 6,940.6 | 100 % | 119 |