![Hungary absolutely dominates the world in coal power plants per capita [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/q22g4b54930g1-1536x1293.png "Hungary absolutely dominates the world in coal power plants per capita [OC]")
Data for the number of power plants came from – https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country
Number of people in each nation came from – https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/
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Data for calculations came from [https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country) and [https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/](https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/)
The chart was made with a custom chart builder I have created.
* poland is noticeably missing from this graph and they have always been *way* *way* up there in coal usage.
* number of power plants is not the correct metric, number of GW is. Some countries have lots of smaller power plants, some a few big ones.
honestly, this smacks more of political posturing than actual beautiful data.
They have 87 million coal plants? Damn that’s crazy
A stupid metric. You need to be looking at produced energy or production capacity.
In the energy mix their contribution is significantly humbler, producing max. 10% out of the total yield of the country.
That is really not something I would want my country to dominate in lol
I live in Australia and am unaware of any plans to build any new coal power stations. This page lists 3 as in pre construction. I think this is simply wrong.
There have been moves to accelerate and decelerate the closure of existing plants based on the availability of wind, solar and batteries.
This is dumb, typical of this sub to upvote such meaningless displays of data.
One might say they are Hungary for coal.
Caledonia? As in New Caledonia? Or are we going all archaic?
because it is hungary for coal
That explains a few things about Trump’s obsession with coal…