Worldwide demand for coal decreased in 2016, for the second year in a row.
Humans used 53-million tonnes of coal less than in 2015, according to this year’s statistical review of energy provided by BP. It’s a decrease of 1.7 per cent.
It is the second-straight year that coal demand has declined.
It also said that worldwide production of coal decreased by six per cent. Production at U.S. coal mines fell by 19 per cent while China’s coal production fell by nearly eight per cent.
On the whole, coal’s share of global energy consumption fell to 28 per cent, the lowest since 2004.
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