CN Uses Almost as Much Coal as Rest of World

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China Consumes Nearly as Much Coal as the Rest of the World Combined. Energy Information Administration, US Department of Energy, Jan 29, 2013 (in the daily column Today in Energy)
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9751&src=email
("China's coal demand growth averaged 9% per year from 2000 to 2010 * * * significantly higher than global growth excluding China, which averaged only 1%")

Note: The graphic (with the above title; unit: billion tons):

......................................2000.....2011
Global consumption excluding China....3.8......4.3
China.................................1.5......3.8