The bar chart above shows the top ten countries for the production and consumption of electricity in 2014. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The diagram illustrates how much

electricity

is produced and consumed in different states in 2014, namely China, the United States, Russia, Japan, India, Canada, France, Brazil, Germany, and Korea. Units are measured in billion kWh. Looking from an

overall

perspective, it is readily apparent that the largest amount of production and consumption are made by China in the given period in question,

while

Korea consumed and produced the least amount of

electricity

.

According to

the data, the widest disparity between the generation and utilization of

electricity

was attributed to the Japanese. (936.2 and 856.7) In comparison with Japan, Russia had the least difference between these two.(1,057 and 1,038) Another noticeable trend is German became the only country among these ten which utilized more

electricity

than it produced. (526.6 for production and 582.5 for consumption) The United State was the second most producer and consumer after China and the figures were approximately eight times higher than Brazil’s which were 530.7 and 455.8 respectively. In terms of both manufacturing and expenditure on

electricity

, Canada, France, and India had similar figures.