The bar chart below shows the top ten countries for the production and consumption of electricity in 2014.
The provided chart illustrates the top 10 countries in terms of producing and consuming electricity in 2014. Figures are measured in
billion
kWh
.
Overall
, China and the USA lead with significantly large figures, while
the Republic of Korea is in last
place. Generally, almost all the countries consumed power less than they produced.
China and the United States generated electrical power of around 5400 and 4000 billion
kWh
respectively, which is around 4 to 5 times that of Russia. Furthermore
, Japan consumed 856.7 billion
kWh
in 2014, which is less than the amount that India produced. Canada and France ranked 6th and 7th with figures of 618.9 and 561.2 billion
kWh
.
Brazil, Germany and Korea roughly produced around 500 billion
kWh
in the year 2014. However
, in Germany, electricity consumption is higher than its production with a gap of 50 billion
kWh
. That is
larger than the production of Brazil and France.Submitted by dmdeemanthakasun on
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