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

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countries

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that produced and consumed the most amount of

electricity

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in 2014.

Overall

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,

it is clear that

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China and the USA exceeded the rest of the

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,

whereas

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

electricity

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as there were 5,398

billion

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kWh

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of

electricity

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produced and 5,322

billion

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kWh

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of that consumed.

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

billion

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kWh

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

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

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were slightly less than the previous three

countries

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at around 570

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and 470

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kWh

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

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was higher than the production of it, unlike other

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.

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

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kWh

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.