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

The bar chart illustrates the top ten countries for the

production

and

consumption

of

electricity

in 2014, presented in billions of

kilowatt-hours

.

Overall

, Germany showed a contrasting value, with

electricity

consumption

being higher than

production

compared to the other nine countries, where

production

was higher than

consumption

. It is clearly seen from the figure that China ranked first in both producing and consuming, with

electricity

being generated at about 5,398

billion

kilowatt-hours

while

being used at around 5,322

billion

, followed by the United States in second

place

, with no significant difference from China. Surprisingly, Russia ranked

third,

with 4,099

billion

in

production

and 3,866

billion

in

consumption

, showing a considerable difference from the United States.

Furthermore

, Japan was recorded in fourth

place

, followed by India, Canada, France, and Brazil. The least amount of

electricity

production

and

consumption

was illustrated by South Korea, where

electricity

was produced at around 485

billion

and used at about 450

billion

kilowatt-hours

. In summary, from third

place

to tenth

place

, similar values were presented, with

production

between 618.9 and 485.1 and

consumption

between 499.9 and 449.5, but the first and second rankings reached higher than 3,500

billion

kilowatt-hours

.