In 2024, China was the world's largest coal importing nation based on value, having imported nearly ** billion U.S. dollars worth of coal. Meanwhile, India came in second place, and was responsible for coal imports amounting to a value of ** billion U.S. dollars that year.Â
The total global coal imports had a sales value of  billion U.S. dollars in 2023, down from  billion U.S. dollars the previous year.
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