COAL INFORMATION (2011 Edition) PART I - I.9
INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY
1. INTRODUCTION
IEA Coal Information 2011 is the latest edition of an
annual publication intended to provide sound market
information on coal to policy and market analysts and
those employed in all sectors of the coal industry.
This monitoring and reporting of historical trends and
current energy market situation provides a strong
foundation for policy and market analysis to better
inform the policy decision process toward selecting
policy instruments that are best suited to meet domes-
tic and/or international objectives.
IEA Coal Information 2011 brings together in one
volume the basic statistics compiled by the IEA on
coal supply, consumption, trade and prices. It also
includes information on coal by-products.
Part I provides important documentation that will as-
sist the reader in correctly using the data in this publi-
cation and to understand the details of the statistical
methodology and collection practices related to the
coal data.
Part II of the publication provides a review of world
coal market developments in 2010. It covers world
coal production and coal reserves, coal consumption
by type (hard, steam, coking), hard coal trade and
prices.
Part III provides the reference tables to the Part II re-
view on coal production, consumption, trade and
prices.
Part IV provides, in tabular and graphic form, a more
detailed and comprehensive statistical picture of coal
developments in the 34 OECD member countries, by
region and individually. In addition, calorific values
used for preparing national energy balances and ex-
change rates used for the reporting of prices in US
dollars are presented.
Part V provides for selected non-OECD countries
summary statistics on hard coal supply and end-use
statistics for about 40 countries and regions
worldwide. Complete coal balances and coal trade
data for selected years are presented for 15 major non-
OECD coal-producing and consuming countries.
OECD data are taken from IEA/OECD databases of
Energy Statistics that are based on annual and quar-
terly submissions from OECD Member countries to
the Secretariat. The Energy Statistics Division of the
IEA Secretariat works closely with national admini-
stration to secure consistency in all time series with
particular regard for IEA product definitions and re-
porting conventions. This effort is supplemented by
surveys of energy industry publications, national sta-
tistics reports and other material. The finalized data
provide the basis for IEA/OECD Energy Balances of
OECD Countries and Energy Statistics of OECD
Countries.
The non-OECD data are based upon information
collected by the IEA Secretariat, official national
submissions to the United Nations in Geneva and
New York, and national energy publications. The
resulting synthesis is published in Energy Balances of
Non-OECD Countries and Energy Statistics of Non-
OECD Countries. Users of this publication are
directed to the Methodology Section of those
publications for more detail on individual non-
Member countries covered in the publication.
Price data in Parts II, III and IV are derived from the
quarterly publication Energy Prices and Taxes. Read-
ers should consult this IEA/OECD publication for
detailed information on methodology, data coverage
and data sources.
OECD coal balances and statistics, including itemized
import and export data, are available on a CD-ROM,
along with world supply data. Information on ordering
the CD-ROM and other energy statistics publications
is available at the end of this book and on the IEA
website at www.iea.org.