Top 5 Coal Exporting Countries in the World

4. USA

Exports: 85,955 thousand short tons

The export of coal from the United States in 2021 and 2022 stayed mostly unaltered, with the exports hitting 85.1 million metric short tons, and 84.8 million metric short tons in the two years, respectively, according to EIA. In 2022, 45% of all U.S. coal exports were steam coal, and 55% were metallurgical coal.

In terms of destinations of that exported coal volume, India was responsible for the highest import of American coal, importing 15.5 million metric short tons in 2022! Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea were other countries that imported the most in the same year.