The pair of pie charts compares the proportion of electricity production by five different fuel sources in France between 1990 and 2010.
Overall, it is clear from the data that nuclear power became greater at the end of the given year in a production of electricity, while all other four sectors—coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro power showed the opposite trend. Natural gas experienced the greatest fall.
In detail, the amount of electricity produced by nuclear power experienced by far the highest rise from 17 percent in 1990 to 67 percent in 2010, ending the period as the most popular fuel source in the electricity production in France.
In contrast, people started to use less coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro power to produce an electricity by the end of the given period. Coal which was dominant in 1990, fell in popularity from 17 percent to 13 percent in 2010. The use of oil saw a drop from 22 percent to 13 percent in 1990 and 2010, respectively. It is hydro power which started being the least popular fuel source in an energy production with the percentage of 6 in 1990, fell to 2 percent in 2010.
Although, natural gas saw the biggest fall in electrical generation over two decades. Starting with 28 percent in 1990, it was dominant as coal and made up for slightly more than a quarter. However, it lost its initial dominance, ending at 4 percent in 2010.