The bar chart below shows the top ten countries for the production and consumption of electricity in 2014.
The bar chart illustrates the amount of electricity produced and consumed in the top 10 nations in the year 2014.
It is clear that
the production in most countries was higher than the consumption, except for Germany. Besides
, China and the US took up the largest percentage of both figures.
As can be seen, China was recorded to be at the top of the list with 5398 billion
kWh
of electricity produced, followed by 4099 billion
kWh
in America. Meanwhile, the consumed amount in these countries was lower, which stood at 5322 billion
kWh
and 3866 billion
kWh
respectively. Especially, Russia shared almost the same proportion for both figures with about 1050 billion
kWh
.
Additionally
, the manufacture of electricity in Japan, India, Canada, as well as
France and Brazil was approximately 100 kWh
billion
higher than the utilization. However
, Korea used 449.5 billion
kWh
, compared to 485.1 billion
kWh
of production. By contrast
, Germany made just 526.6 billion
kWh
, whereas
the total consumption was higher, at 582.5 billion
kWh
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