India to overtake US as world’s biggest coal miner after China

India is set to surpass the US as the world’s biggest coal producer after China by 2020, as state-miner Coal India Ltd. ramps up output to meet demand from domestic power producers, according to BMI Research. The South Asian nation’s share of world output will increase to 12.7% by 2020 from 9.8% in 2016, BMI said in a report Thursday. It cautioned that the country will still fall short of the government’s ambitious coal output target and domestic demand will continue to exceed production up to 2020.