Global coal consumption reached another record in 2025, seemingly contradicting years of discussion about phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. The latest Statistical Review of World Energy shows that global coal consumption rose to 166.0 exajoules last year. Thus, despite the global record in coal consumption, coal lost a small amount of market share. The United States still accounted for just 5.3% of global coal consumption and 7.7% of global coal-fired generation. Thus, record global consumption did not translate into record international trade.