The bar chart below shows the top ten countries for the production and consumption of electricity in 2014.

The given chart illustrates ten

countries

that produced and consumed the most amount of

electricity

in 2014.

Overall

,

it is clear that

China and the USA exceeded the rest of the

countries

,

whereas

Germany and the Korean Republic ranked bottom. It can be observed that China held the first place in terms of producing and consuming

electricity

as there were 5,398

billion

kWh

of

electricity

produced and 5,322

billion

kWh

of that consumed.

Moreover

, standing at the second position was the United States as both categories were lower by roughly 1,400

billion

kWh

. These figures were significantly smaller in Russia, Japan, and India as they only took up approximately one-fourth of the figure for the USA.

Furthermore

, Canada, France and Brazil ranked in descending order. Their production and consumption of

electricity

were slightly less than the previous three

countries

at around 570

billion

and 470

billion

kWh

. There was a noticeable difference in Germany as the consumption of

electricity

was higher than the production of it, unlike other

countries

.

In addition

, at the bottom of the list was Korea where both categories only stood at nearly 465

billion

kWh

.