Editing Lignite (section)

== Production ==
{{update|date=January 2023}}[[Germany]] is the largest producer of lignite,<ref name = "BGR, 2015" /> followed by [[China]], [[Russia]], and [[United States]].<ref name = "Appunn, CEW, 2018" /> Lignite accounted for 8% of all U.S. coal production in 2019.<ref name="useia"/>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|+Lignite mined in millions of [[tonne]]s
! Country or territory
! data-sort-type="number" | 1970
! data-sort-type="number" | 1980
! data-sort-type="number" | 1990
! data-sort-type="number" | 2000
! data-sort-type="number" | 2010
! data-sort-type="number" | 2011
! data-sort-type="number" | 2012
! data-sort-type="number" | 2013
! data-sort-type="number" | 2014
! data-sort-type="number" | 2015
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|East Germany}} || 261|| 258.1 || 280 ||colspan="7"| {{efn|name=fn1}} 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Germany}} || 108{{efn|name=fn2}} || 129.9{{efn|name=fn2}} || 107.6{{efn|name=fn2}} || 167.7 || 169 || 176.5 || 185.4 || 183 || 178.2 || 178.1
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|China}} || – <!--13.0--> || 24.3 || 45.5 || 47.7 || 125.3 || 136.3 || 145 || 147 || 145 || 140
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Russia}} || 145{{efn|name=fn3}} || 141{{efn|name=fn3}} || 137.3{{efn|name=fn3}} || 87.8 || 76.1 || 76.4 || 77.9 || 73 || 70 || 73.2
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Kazakhstan}} ||rowspan="2" colspan="3"| {{efn|name=fn4}} || 2.6 || 7.3 || 8.4 || 5.5 || 6.5 || 6.6 || –
|-
|align=left | {{flag|Uzbekistan}} || 2.5 || 3.4 || 3.8 || 3.8 || – || – || –
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|United States}} || 5 || 42.8 || 79.9 || 77.6 || 71.0 || 73.6 || 71.6 || 70.1 || 72.1 || 64.7
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Poland}} || – <!--32.8--> || 36.9 || 67.6 || 59.5 || 56.5 || 62.8 || 64.3 || 66 || 63.9 || 63.1
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Turkey}} || – <!--4.4--> || 14.5 || 44.4 || 60.9 || 70.0 || 72.5 || 68.1 || 57.5 || 62.6 || 50.4
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Australia}} || – <!--24.2--> || 32.9 || 46 || 67.3 ||68.8 || 66.7 || 69.1 || 59.9 || 58.0 || 63.0
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Greece}} || – <!--8.1--> || 23.2 || 51.9 || 63.9 || 56.5 || 58.7 || 61.8 || 54 || 48 || 46
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|India}} || – || 5 || 14.1 || 24.2 || 37.7 || 42.3 || 43.5 || 45 || 47.2 || 43.9
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Indonesia}} || – || – || – || – ||40.0 || 51.3 || 60.0 || 65.0 || 60.0 || 60.0
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Czechoslovakia}} || 82 || 87 || 71 ||colspan="7"| {{efn|name=fn5}} 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Czech Republic}} ||rowspan="2" colspan="3"| {{efn|name=fn6}} || 50.1 || 43.8 || 46.6 || 43.5 || 40 || 38.3 || 38.3
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Slovakia}} || 3.7 || 2.4 || 2.4 || 2.3 || – || – || –
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Yugoslavia}} || – <!--26--> || 33.7 || 64.1 || 35.5{{efn|name=fn9}} ||colspan="6"| {{efn|name=fn7}} 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Serbia}} ||rowspan="6" colspan="3"| {{efn|name=fn8}} || {{efn|name=fn10}} || 37.8 || 40.6 || 38 || 40.1 || 29.7 || 37.3
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Kosovo}} || {{efn|name=fn10}} || 8.7{{efn|name=fn11}} || 9{{efn|name=fn11}} || 8.7{{efn|name=fn11}} || 8.2{{efn|name=fn11}} || 7.2{{efn|name=fn11}} || 8.2{{efn|name=fn11}}
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|North Macedonia}} || 7.5 || 6.7 || 8.2 ||7.5 || – || – || – 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}} || 3.4 || 11 || 7.1 || 7 || 6.2 || 6.2 || 6.5
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Slovenia}} || 3.7 || 4|| 4.1 || 4 ||  – || – || – 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Montenegro}} || {{efn|name=fn10}} || 1.9 || 2 || 2 ||  – || – || – 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Romania}} || – || 26.5 || 33.7 || 29 || 31.1 || 35.5 || 34.1 || 24.7|| 23.6 || 25.2
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Bulgaria}} || – || 30 ||31.5 || 26.3 || 29.4 || 37.1 || 32.5 || 26.5 || 31.3 || 35.9
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Albania}} || – || 1.4 || 2.1 || 30 || 14 || 9 || 20 ||  – || – || – 
|-
| align=left | {{flag|Thailand}} || – || 1.5 || 12.4 || 17.8 || 18.3 || 21.3 || 18.3 || 18.1 || 18 || 15.2
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Mongolia}} || – || 4.4 || 6.6 || 5.1 || 8.5 || 8.3 || 9.9 || – || – || – 
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Canada}} || – || 6 || 9.4 || 11.2 || 10.3 || 9.7 || 9.5 || 9.0 || 8.5 || 10.5
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|Hungary}} || – || 22.6 || 17.3 || 14 || 9.1 || 9.6 || 9.3 || 9.6 || 9.6 || 9.3
|-
| align=left | {{Flag|North Korea}} || – || 10 || 10.6 || 7.2 || 6.7 || 6.8 || 6.8 || 7 || 7 || 7
|-
! colspan=11 style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 0.85em; text-align: left; padding: 6px 2px 4px 4px;" |Source: [[World Coal Association]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcoal.org/resources/statistics/|title=Resources|publisher=[[World Coal Association]]|date=2014|access-date=2015-12-22|archive-date=2015-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223074452/http://www.worldcoal.org/resources/statistics/|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{·}}[[U.S. Energy Information Administration]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=1&pid=14&aid=1&cid=regions&syid=1980&eyid=2012&unit=TST|title=Production of Lignite Coal|publisher=[[U.S. Energy Information Administration]]|date=2012|access-date=2015-12-23|archive-date=2015-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224103800/http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=1&pid=14&aid=1&cid=regions&syid=1980&eyid=2012&unit=TST|url-status=live}}</ref>{{·}}[[Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe|BGR]] bund.de Energiestudie 2016<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Energie/Downloads/Energiestudie_2016_Tabellen.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=1 |title=Energiestudie 2016 Tabellen |access-date=2017-04-19 |archive-date=2017-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020084706/http://www.bgr.bund.de/DE/Themen/Energie/Downloads/Energiestudie_2016_Tabellen.xlsx?__blob=publicationFile&v=1 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{·}}1970 data from World Coal (1987)<ref>{{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Richard|date=1987|title=World coal: economics, policies and prospects|pages=44|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521308275|oclc=506249066}}</ref>

– ''no data available''
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{{efn|name=fn1|[[East Germany]] became a part of [[Germany]] as a result of [[German reunification]] in 1990.}}
{{efn|name=fn2|Data prior to 2000 are for [[West Germany]] only.}}
{{efn|name=fn3|Data prior to 2000 represent the [[Soviet Union]].}}
{{efn|name=fn4|Country was a part of the [[Soviet Union]] during this time.}}
{{efn|name=fn5|[[Czechoslovakia]] [[Dissolution of Czechoslovakia|dissolved]] in 1993.}}
{{efn|name=fn6|Country was a part of [[Czechoslovakia]] during this time.}}
{{efn|name=fn7|[[Yugoslavia]] [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|broke up]] in a process that concluded in 1992.}}
{{efn|name=fn8|Country was a part of [[Yugoslavia]] during this time.}}
{{efn|name=fn9|2000 data is for [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].}}
{{efn|name=fn10|Country was a part of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] during this time.}}
{{efn|name=fn11|Albanians unilaterally declared independence from [[Serbia]], but the country it is not member of UN and its status is heavily disputed.}}
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