On the heels of Goldman Sach’s Peak Coal (i.e. Coal production has reached a top) report, we looked at data to see which countries had the biggest decline in Coal production.

Countries Change from 2008 in Coal Production (Million Tonnes) 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Spain -62% 10.2 9.4 8.4 6.6 6.2 4.4 3.9 Venezuela -49% 4.9 3.3 2.7 2.1 1.2 2.6 2.5 South Korea -37% 2.8 2.5 2.1 2.1 2.1 1.8 1.7 United Kingdom -36% 18.1 17.9 18.4 18.6 17.0 12.8 11.5 Romania -34% 35.9 34.0 31.1 35.5 33.9 24.7 23.6 Greece -25% 65.7 64.9 56.5 58.7 63.0 53.9 49.3 Ukraine -24% 79.9 74.4 77.3 85.1 87.3 85.6 60.9 Czech Republic -22% 60.2 56.4 55.2 57.9 55.0 49.0 46.9 Pakistan -21% 4.0 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.2 3.0 3.2 New Zealand -18% 4.8 4.6 5.3 4.9 4.9 4.6 4.0 US -15% 1063.0 975.2 983.7 993.9 922.1 893.4 906.9 Turkey -11% 79.4 79.5 73.4 76.0 71.5 60.4 70.6 Poland -5% 144.0 135.2 133.2 139.3 144.1 142.9 137.1 Germany -4% 193.1 184.0 182.6 188.8 196.5 190.3 185.8 Other Europe & Eurasia -3% 97.9 99.4 101.3 106.6 97.2 108.4 95.1 Kazakhstan -2% 111.1 100.9 106.6 111.4 115.7 114.4 108.7 Thailand -1% 18.1 17.6 18.3 21.3 18.1 18.1 18.0