Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
Bangladesh's electricity generation by source, % of the total, 2019, 2022 and 2025. Ember yearly data.
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- 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
- 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
- 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
- 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
- 7. More than two in three cars Nepal imports are electric
- 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
- 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
- 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
- 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
- 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
- 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
- 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
- 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
- 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
- 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
- 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
- 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
- 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
- 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
- 23. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
- 24. India's sun and wind now outproduce Germany's
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- 31. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
- 32. Coal's share of Bangladesh's power jumped from 2% to 22%
Share of Bangladesh's electricity made from coal in 2025, up from 2% in 2019 and 6% in 2022.
Bangladesh's coal power grew from 1.3 TWh in 2019 to 22.3 TWh in 2025, while oil's share fell from 25% in 2022 to 12%.
Solar's share of Pakistan's power in 2025, up from 2% in 2019, while its coal share fell: Pakistan went the other way.
the numbers & method
| coal (%) | gas (%) | oil and other fossil (%) | clean power (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 80 | 17 | 1 |
| 2022 | 6 | 68 | 25 | 2 |
| 2025 | 22 | 64 | 12 | 2 |
Claim types Fact · Estimate
Ember yearly electricity data (coal, version 68302f55ac; gas, 01e2c465c1; fossil, 8938c2f576; renewables, 6578aedb4a; total generation, 6ce219dd20; solar, 90e95a655c), read from Ember's data as loaded into the progrss vault. Bangladesh generation, TWh, 2019 / 2022 / 2025: coal 1.30 / 5.66 / 22.25; gas 68.36 / 69.19 / 66.47; all fossil 83.92 / 100.66 / 101.18; clean (renewables; no nuclear yet) 1.19 / 1.59 / 2.21; total 85.11 / 102.25 / 103.39. Ember's coal share: 1.53% (2019), 5.54% (2022), 10.61% (2023), 19.94% (2024), 21.52% (2025). 'Oil and other fossil' = all fossil minus coal minus gas (progrss calculation; in Bangladesh mostly oil). Generation only: Bangladesh also imports power from India (Ember demand 118.04 TWh in 2025 vs generation 103.39 TWh), not charted. Pakistan solar share (Ember, version 90e95a655c): 1.93% (2019), 5.08% (2022), 21.40% (2025); Pakistan coal share 19.16% (2019), 14.47% (2025). Ratio 22.25 ÷ 1.30 = 17.1 is a progrss calculation. Ember's latest-year values can be provisional. Licence: Ember, CC BY 4.0.
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