Top 5 Coal Exporting Countries in the World

2. Australia

Exports: 401,298 thousand short tons

Australia’s main energy resource is coal, as it boasts 74,147 million tons of recoverable black coal and 74,039 million tons of recoverable brown coal, as of 2020, according to Geoscience Australia.

Australia holds the third-largest coal deposits globally, accounting for 14% of global coal reserves, just behind Russia and USA, which account for 24% and 15%, respectively; the country’s coal reserves were valued at 147 billion tons, as of 2018, according to Mining Technology. It is the 4^th largest producer of coal, as it has been hitting 500 million tons mark quite consistently since 2014, according to Power Technology. Australia was the world’s 2^nd largest coal exporting country by a wide margin in 2022, accounting for whopping 35% of worldwide coal exports based on value!