Coal consumption in Cuba
Cuba: Coal consumption was 0.0018 terawatt-hours in 2024. ◆ Volatile
Coal consumption in Cuba, 1980–2024
Source: Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in terawatt-hours.
Analysis
Cuba recorded 0.0018 terawatt-hours for coal consumption in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 45 years on record.
The figure is down 76.0% on the previous year and down 87.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, coal consumption in Cuba peaked at 0.9977 terawatt-hours in 1989 and was at its lowest, 0.0018 terawatt-hours, in 2024.
That places Cuba 129th out of 220 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The series is highly variable year to year, so single readings are best treated with caution.
Coal consumption in Cuba, year by year
| Year | terawatt-hours | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 0.7159 terawatt-hours | — |
| 1981 | 0.8478 terawatt-hours | +18.4% |
| 1982 | 0.9797 terawatt-hours | +15.6% |
| 1983 | 0.6782 terawatt-hours | -30.8% |
| 1984 | 0.829 terawatt-hours | +22.2% |
| 1985 | 0.9495 terawatt-hours | +14.5% |
| 1986 | 0.8968 terawatt-hours | -5.6% |
| 1987 | 0.6406 terawatt-hours | -28.6% |
| 1988 | 0.789 terawatt-hours | +23.2% |
| 1989 | 0.9977 terawatt-hours | +26.4% |
| 1990 | 0.837 terawatt-hours | -16.1% |
| 1991 | 0.5652 terawatt-hours | -32.5% |
| 1992 | 0.3549 terawatt-hours | -37.2% |
| 1993 | 0.1807 terawatt-hours | -49.1% |
| 1994 | 0.1736 terawatt-hours | -3.9% |
| 1995 | 0.1701 terawatt-hours | -2.0% |
| 1996 | 0.1665 terawatt-hours | -2.1% |
| 1997 | 0.1598 terawatt-hours | -4.0% |
| 1998 | 0.1564 terawatt-hours | -2.1% |
| 1999 | 0.1531 terawatt-hours | -2.2% |
| 2000 | 0.1629 terawatt-hours | +6.4% |
| 2001 | 0.1635 terawatt-hours | +0.4% |
| 2002 | 0.1946 terawatt-hours | +19.0% |
| 2003 | 0.1877 terawatt-hours | -3.5% |
| 2004 | 0.1798 terawatt-hours | -4.2% |
| 2005 | 0.1627 terawatt-hours | -9.5% |
| 2006 | 0.1484 terawatt-hours | -8.8% |
| 2007 | 0.1336 terawatt-hours | -9.9% |
| 2008 | 0.155 terawatt-hours | +16.0% |
| 2009 | 0.1733 terawatt-hours | +11.9% |
| 2010 | 0.1731 terawatt-hours | -0.1% |
| 2011 | 0.0049 terawatt-hours | -97.2% |
| 2012 | 0.0072 terawatt-hours | +46.8% |
| 2013 | 0.0222 terawatt-hours | +207.6% |
| 2014 | 0.0137 terawatt-hours | -38.4% |
| 2015 | 0.0217 terawatt-hours | +58.6% |
| 2016 | 0.0143 terawatt-hours | -34.2% |
| 2017 | 0.0167 terawatt-hours | +16.9% |
| 2018 | 0.0288 terawatt-hours | +72.4% |
| 2019 | 0.0223 terawatt-hours | -22.5% |
| 2020 | 0.0038 terawatt-hours | -83.1% |
| 2021 | 0.0118 terawatt-hours | +214.2% |
| 2022 | 0.0074 terawatt-hours | -37.4% |
| 2023 | 0.0074 terawatt-hours | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.0018 terawatt-hours | -76.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.8324 terawatt-hours | 0.6406 terawatt-hours | 0.9977 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.2917 terawatt-hours | 0.1531 terawatt-hours | 0.837 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.1662 terawatt-hours | 0.1336 terawatt-hours | 0.1946 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.0325 terawatt-hours | 0.0049 terawatt-hours | 0.1731 terawatt-hours | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.0064 terawatt-hours | 0.0018 terawatt-hours | 0.0118 terawatt-hours | 5 |
Countries ranked near Cuba
- 126 Uruguay 0.0394 terawatt-hours compare
- 127 Paraguay 0.0042 terawatt-hours compare
- 128 Costa Rica 0.0021 terawatt-hours compare
- 130 Azerbaijan 0.0008 terawatt-hours compare
- 131 Fiji 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 American Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Angola 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Antarctica 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Antigua and Barbuda 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Aruba 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Bahamas 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Bahrain 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Barbados 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Belize 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Bermuda 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 British Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Burkina Faso 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Burundi 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Cameroon 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Cape Verde 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Cayman Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Central African Republic 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Chad 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Comoros 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Congo 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Cook Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Côte d'Ivoire 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Djibouti 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Dominica 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Timor-Leste 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 El Salvador 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Equatorial Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Eritrea 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Falkland Islands (Malvinas) 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Faroe Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 French Guiana 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 French Polynesia 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Gabon 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Gambia 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Gibraltar 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Greenland 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Grenada 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Guadeloupe 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Guam 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Guinea-Bissau 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Guyana 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Haiti 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Iraq 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Kiribati 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Lesotho 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Liberia 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Libya 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Macau, China 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Maldives 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Mali 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Malta 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Martinique 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Mauritania 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Micronesia, Federated States of 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Montserrat 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Mozambique 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Naoero 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Netherlands Antilles 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Nicaragua 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Niue 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Northern Mariana Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Palestine, State of 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Papua New Guinea 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Réunion 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Saint Lucia 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Samoa 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Sao Tome and Principe 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Seychelles 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Sierra Leone 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Solomon Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Somalia 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 South Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Sudan 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Suriname 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Tonga 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Trinidad and Tobago 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Tunisia 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Turkmenistan 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Tuvalu 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Uganda 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 United States Virgin Islands 0 terawatt-hours compare
- 132 Vanuatu 0 terawatt-hours
- 132 Western Sahara 0 terawatt-hours
More energy & mining data for Cuba
- Fuel imports 30.9% (2021)
- Ores and metals imports 2.2% (2022)
- Ores and metals exports 53.4% (2022)
- Gas production 9.96 terawatt-hours (2024)
- Fossil fuel production per person, by fuel 907.02 kilowatt-hours per person (2024)
- Fossil fuel production by fuel 9.96 terawatt-hours (2024)
- Gas production per person 907.02 kilowatt-hours per person (2024)
- Fossil fuel production by fuel, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2024)
- Fossil fuel production by fuel, per unit of GDP 0 terawatt-hours per US$ of GDP (2020)
- Gas production, per capita 0 terawatt-hours per person (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is coal consumption in Cuba?
- Coal consumption in Cuba was 0.0018 terawatt-hours in 2024, according to Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest coal consumption recorded in Cuba?
- The highest recorded value was 0.9977 terawatt-hours in 1989.
- What is the lowest coal consumption recorded in Cuba?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0018 terawatt-hours in 2024.
- How does Cuba rank for coal consumption?
- Cuba ranks 129th out of 220 countries with data for 2024.
- Is coal consumption rising or falling in Cuba?
- Over the last ten years it is down 87.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is volatile.
- Where does this Cuba data come from?
- The figures come from Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026) and other sources – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Coal consumption. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Measured in terawatt-hours.