Editing Coal mining (section)

=== Economic impact ===
Energy production from coal mining is highly concentrated in certain jurisdictions, which also concentrates much of the social and economic impacts of the industry to these regions.<ref name=":1">Table is extracted from {{Cite journal|last1=Pai|first1=Sandeep|last2=Zerriffi|first2=Hisham|last3=Jewell|first3=Jessica|last4=Pathak|first4=Jaivik|date=6 March 2020|title=Solar has greater techno-economic resource suitability than wind for replacing coal mining jobs|journal=Environmental Research Letters|language=en|volume=15|issue=3|pages=034065|doi=10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6d|bibcode=2020ERL....15c4065P|issn=1748-9326|doi-access=free|hdl=11250/2765429|hdl-access=free}}</ref> The industry directly employs over seven million workers worldwide, which, in turn, creates millions of indirect jobs.<ref name=":1" /> 

In several parts of the world, producers have reached [[peak coal]] as some economies shift away from fossil fuels to address climate change. A 2020 study found that renewables jobs could feasibly be created in these geographies to replace many of the coal mining jobs as part of a [[just transition]]; however, renewable energy was not suitable in some of the geographies with high concentrations of miners, such as in China, which is far and away the leading coal-mining nation.<ref name=":1" />
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| colspan="6" |2018 coal production, reserves, miners, and major coal-producing regions for [[China]], [[India]], the [[United States]], and [[Australia]], which account for approximately 70% of global annual coal production. The following table includes jurisdictions which are the top coal-producing provinces and states, responsible for over 85% of each country's coal production.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ivanova|first1=Diana|last2=Barrett|first2=John|last3=Wiedenhofer|first3=Dominik|last4=Macura|first4=Biljana|last5=Callaghan|first5=Max W|last6=Creutzig|first6=Felix|author6-link=Felix Creutzig|date=1 April 2020|title=Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options|journal=Environmental Research Letters|volume=15|issue=9|page=093001|doi=10.1088/1748-9326/ab8589|bibcode=2020ERL....15i3001I|issn=1748-9326|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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!Country
!Coal production (million tonnes)
!Coal reserves (million tonnes)
!Coal miners (thousands)
!Top producing provinces or states
!% of national production covered
|-
|[[Coal in China|China]]
|3349
|138,819
|6110
|[[Shanxi]], [[Shaanxi]], [[Anhui]], [[Heilongjiang]], [[Xinjiang]], [[Shandong]], [[Henan]], [[Guizhou]]
|90%
|-
|[[Coal mining in india|India]]
|717
|97,728
|485
|[[Chhattisgarh]], [[Jharkhand]], [[Orissa]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Telangana]]
|85%
|-
|[[Coal mining in the United States|United States]]
|701
|250,916
|52
|[[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], [[Kentucky]], [[Montana]], [[North Dakota]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Texas]], [[West Virginia]], and [[Wyoming]]
|90%
|-
|[[Coal in Australia|Australia]]
|478
|144,818
|50
|[[New South Wales]], [[Queensland]], [[Victoria, Australia]]
|99%
|}