IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser

IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser is the Coal & Consumable Fuels catalog's cross-country record of coal: the International Energy Agency's interactive window onto what it calls its most extensive selection of energy statistics - charts and tables across sixteen energy topics for more than 170 countries and regions. The coal side of that window is Coal Information, six files of annual time series built on the joint annual questionnaire answered by 38 OECD members and 14 non-OECD countries, plus seven regional aggregates. A full coal energy balance in ktoe, ktce, TJ or Tcal carries 17 products plus aggregates across 93 flows; a supply-and-consumption file runs in kt and TJ across 98 flows; net calorific values arrive in MJ per tonne; OECD import and export detail reaches 186 partner origins and destinations back to 1978; and World Coal Supply covers 150 countries and 28 aggregates from 1971 onward. Flow names follow the IEA's own statistics vocabulary - Indigenous Production (INDPROD), From Other Sources, final consumption - so every row reads as an IEA statistician wrote it, not as an aggregator's paraphrase.

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The shape underneath every chart in the browser is one tidy observation: a country or aggregate, a flow, a product, a year, a value, a unit.

FILE: World Coal Supply                     UNIT kt/TJ     YEARS 1971-2024 (+2025 prov.)
COUNTRY/AGG      FLOW       PRODUCT         YEAR   VALUE      UNIT
World            INDPROD    Hard coal       2024   ...        kt
OECD Total       INDPROD    Hard coal       2024   ...        kt
China            INDPROD    Brown coal      2024   ...        kt

FILE: Coal Supply and Consumption (OECD+)   UNIT kt/TJ     52 countries + 7 aggregates
COUNTRY          FLOW       PRODUCT         YEAR   VALUE      UNIT
...              ...        Coking coal     2024   ...        TJ
...              ...        Coke oven coke  2024   ...        kt

FILE: Coal Imports by Origin (OECD)        UNIT kt        YEARS 1978-2024 | 186 origins

Reading the rows: each line is a country-by-flow-by-product-by-year cell, which means a sixty-year series for one product in one country is a filter, not a scrape-and-stitch job. The three files shown are three of the six - the full energy balance, the net calorific value file and the exports-by-destination file complete the set, all keyed on the same dimensions so they stack into a single table without renaming a single column. Values arrive in the unit the IEA reports them in - kt for physical tonnes, TJ or ktoe for energy - and stay honest about it rather than being silently harmonised into one unit that pretends the difference never existed.

Every column below comes from the published Coal Information layouts, defined against the database's own documentation with examples drawn from real observations:

That is the verified core. The six files run wider than any page can hold - the full energy balance alone stretches to 93 flows across four reporting units, the trade files split imports by origin and exports by destination across 186 partner origins and destinations apiece, and the calorific-value file carries conversion factors per country, product and year. Anything outside the core ships as additional fields on request: name them when you ask for your sample and they arrive documented in this same dictionary format, units declared up front rather than discovered mid-analysis.

• Geography: 38 OECD countries plus 14 non-OECD questionnaire countries and 7 regional aggregates at full detail; the world supply file widens that to 150 countries and 28 aggregates
• Temporal: 1960-2024 for OECD members, 1971-2024 for the world file, 1978-2024 for OECD trade-partner detail, with provisional 2025 supply data in the latest edition
• Granularity: one observation per country-by-flow-by-product-by-year cell, annual cadence throughout

No other single source pairs a 1960-starting OECD series with 186-way trade-partner detail and calorific values that make tonnage comparable across coal ranks. National statistics offices cover their own borders; this is the frame that puts forty-odd national stories on one axis.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

Pick the channel and the cadence; the rows arrive identical either way - cleaned, typed and stacked on the same five dimensions so the balance file, the NCV factors and the trade matrices join on country, flow, product and year without a mapping-table archaeology session. Unit columns are preserved exactly as the IEA reports them, provisional years are flagged as provisional, and every column is checked against the dictionary above before it reaches you.

• Investors and quant researchers - benchmark OECD and world coal supply back to 1960-1971 for cross-country factor work, with flow-level splits that survive a change in national reporting habits.
• Market researchers and consultants - compare national coal balances across 38 OECD plus non-OECD countries, converting between tonnes and terajoules with the file's own calorific values instead of guessed conversion factors.
• Journalists and academics - cite IEA world and OECD coal series 1960-2024 in teaching and published research, with flow definitions straight from the IEA's statistics categories.
• Data scientists and ML engineers - build country-year panels of production, trade and consumption with a stable dimensional key that joins cleanly to any other country-coded table.
• Developers and builders - power dashboards on the public browser's country-by-flow-by-product grid without assembling it file by file.

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Methodology note - the numbers come from the joint annual questionnaire answered by national administrations, reconciled by the IEA into a common flow and product vocabulary. That reconciliation is the product: two countries' coal statistics become comparable because someone enforced definitions, not because the raw filings agreed.

Provisional-data note - the latest supply year arrives flagged provisional and firms up in later editions, so series ending in the freshest year can shift; Datadory ships those flags intact rather than quietly overwriting history.

Dimension note - flow codes like Indigenous Production (INDPROD) resolve against the IEA's standard statistics categories; the mapping ships alongside the values so no consumer has to guess what a code covers.

Where to go next:

• Eurostat Coal Production and Consumption Statistics - the European statistical office's coal series when the comparison narrows to EU member states.
• UN Energy Statistics Database (UNdata) - the UN's global energy commodity tables - broader commodity reach, thinner coal-specific detail.
• EIA Annual Coal Report (ACR) - roughly 48 US tables covering production, mines, reserves, employment and productivity for the domestic cut.
• Global Coal Plant Tracker (GCPT) - 14,674 coal-fired units across 111 countries - the demand-side asset register downstream of these supply flows.