Coal and coal products; indigenous production, imports, exports; from 1802

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This table presents the main figures for supply and consumption of primary coal (hard coal, lignite) and coal products in the Netherlands in a long time series.

Data available:
From 1802

Status of the figures:
Figures of 1802 up to and including 2021 are definite. Figures of 2022 are revised provisional.

Changes as of November 14th 2023:
Figures from 2015 up to and including 2020 have been revised. The revisions relate to the introduction of an improved analysis method in 2022, which has been carried back to 2015. The differences are less then 5%. Figures of 2021 and 2022 have been updated.


When will new figures be published?
Revised provisional figures: June/July in the following year.
Definite figures: december in the second following year.

Description topics

Primary coals
Hard coal:
Fossil fuel existing of carbonised rests of vegetal origin.

Sorts of hard coal: anthracite, coke oven cokes and stem coal. All these types have a calorific value of more than 24 megajoules per kilogram of the ash-free and wet product.

Lignite:
Sort of coal with a calorific value of less than 20 megajoules per kilogram of the ash-free and wet product and greater than 31 percent volatile matter on a dry mineral free basis.
Indigenous production, total
Extraction of energy from nature.
Indigenous production hard coal
Extraction of hard coal from nature.
Indigenous production lignite
Extraction of lignite from nature.