Coal left in the world (BOE):

4,265,056,296,478

Summary Table

	Tons (short ton, st)	BOE (barrels of Oil equivalent)
Coal Reserves	1,139,471,430,000	5,458,633,479
Coal Consumption	8,561,852,178	41,015,519,747

(Data shown in the table is for 2016. Counter shows current estimate.)

World Coal Reserves

There are 1,139,471 tons (short tons, st) of proven coal reserves in the world as of 2016.

The world has proven reserves equivalent to 133.1 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 133 years of coal left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

Coal Reserves

1,139,471,430,000 Tons

(5,458,633,479 million BOE)

133 years of coal left

(at current consumption levels)

History of World’s Proven Coal Reserves

World Coal Consumption

The world consumes 8,561,852,178 tons (short tons, st) of coal per year as of the year 2016.
The world consumes 1,132,737 cubic feet of natural coal per capita every year (based on the 2016 world population of 7,558,554,526 people) or 3,103 cubic feet per capita per day.

History of Global Coal Consumption


1	United States	254,197,000,000	22.31%
2	Russia	176,770,840,800	15.51%
3	Australia	159,634,329,600	14.01%
4	China	149,818,259,000	13.15%
5	India	107,726,551,700	9.45%
6	Germany	39,802,209,480	3.49%
7	Ukraine	37,891,906,250	3.33%
8	South Africa	35,053,458,000	3.08%
9	Poland	28,451,723,410	2.50%
10	Kazakhstan	28,224,647,550	2.48%
11	Indonesia	24,910,001,380	2.19%
12	Turkey	12,514,525,430	1.10%
13	New Zealand	8,349,998,250	0.73%
14	Serbia	8,282,757,340	0.73%
15	Brazil	7,270,836,760	0.64%
16	Canada	7,255,404,420	0.64%
17	Colombia	5,380,375,110	0.47%
18	Czech Republic (Czechia)	4,012,408,400	0.35%
19	Vietnam	3,703,761,600	0.33%
20	Pakistan	3,377,477,840	0.30%
21	Hungary	3,206,619,790	0.28%
22	Greece	3,170,243,560	0.28%
23	Mongolia	2,777,821,200	0.24%
24	Bulgaria	2,608,065,460	0.23%
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,495,629,840	0.22%
26	Mozambique	1,975,339,520	0.17%
27	Uzbekistan	1,515,676,250	0.13%
28	Mexico	1,334,897,410	0.12%
29	Iran	1,326,078,930	0.12%
30	Spain	1,308,441,970	0.11%
31	Chile	1,301,828,110	0.11%
32	Thailand	1,171,755,530	0.10%
33	Kyrgyzstan	1,070,343,010	0.094%
34	Venezuela	805,788,610	0.071%
35	North Korea	661,386,000	0.058%
36	Albania	575,405,820	0.050%
37	Laos	554,461,930	0.049%
38	Zimbabwe	553,359,620	0.049%
39	Argentina	551,155,000	0.048%
40	Netherlands	547,848,070	0.048%
41	Tajikistan	413,366,250	0.036%
42	Slovenia	408,957,010	0.036%
43	Japan	385,808,500	0.034%
44	Nigeria	379,194,640	0.033%
45	North Macedonia	365,966,920	0.032%
46	South Korea	359,353,060	0.032%
47	Philippines	348,329,960	0.031%
48	Bangladesh	322,976,830	0.028%
49	Romania	320,772,210	0.028%
50	Tanzania	296,521,390	0.026%
51	Georgia	221,564,310	0.019%
52	Greenland	201,722,730	0.018%
53	Malaysia	198,415,800	0.017%
54	Armenia	179,676,530	0.016%
55	Eswatini	158,732,640	0.014%
56	Montenegro	156,528,020	0.014%
57	Slovakia	148,811,850	0.013%
58	Peru	112,435,620	0.0099%
59	Botswana	106,434,000	0.0093%
60	DR Congo	97,003,280	0.0085%
61	United Kingdom	77,000,000	0.0068%
62	Afghanistan	72,752,460	0.0064%
63	Algeria	65,036,290	0.0057%
64	Zambia	49,603,950	0.0044%
65	Portugal	39,683,160	0.0035%
66	Ecuador	26,455,440	0.0023%
67	Italy	18,739,270	0.0016%
68	Egypt	17,636,960	0.0015%
69	Ireland	15,432,340	0.0014%
70	Morocco	15,432,340	0.0014%
71	Myanmar	6,613,860	0.00058%
72	Niger	6,613,860	0.00058%
73	Central African Republic	3,306,930	0.00029%
74	Malawi	2,204,620	0.00019%
75	New Caledonia	2,204,620	0.00019%
76	Bolivia	1,102,310	0.000097%
77	Nepal	1,102,310	0.000097%
78	Norway	1,102,310	0.000097%
79	Sweden	1,102,310	0.000097%
80	Taiwan	1,102,310	0.000097%

Sources

Statistical Review of World Energy - British Petroleum
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)