The bar chart below shows the top ten counties 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 bar chart illustrates the ten highest-ranked countries in using and producing

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in 2014, with the number reported in billion kWh.

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, there were some Asian, American, and European countries in the top ten list. Most of them produced more

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than was used,

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Germany.

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with, China was in first place, it generated a total of 5,398 and used a slightly similar amount of

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(5,332). The second rank was the United States, it used and produced approximately less than 1,000 kWh compared to China. There were about 4,009

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was produced and 3,866 consumed.

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, Russia recorded only a third of the US

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production and consumption. A slightly similar number is

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reported in Japan, with around 936.2 and 856,7. It was

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followed by India, Canada, France and Brazil in the five to eight position with

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production and usage ranging from 871 to 618.9, 499.9, 462.9, 455.8 and from 698.8, to 449.9, 462.9, 455.8, respectively. Germany was the only city that produced (526.6) less

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than their consumption rate (582.5).

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, it was the Korean Republic on the 10 ranks that consumed 449.5 and produced 485.1

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