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

The chart illustrates how much

electricity

was produced and consumed in the ten biggest

countries

in the world in 2014.

First,

the biggest consumer and producer of

electricity

was

China

, followed by the US. In

China

, the

production

was 5398

billion

kWh

and

consumption

were

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50

billion

kWh

less.

However

, in the US, the gap between

production

and

consumption

accounted for approximately 200

billion

kWh

, between 4099 and 3866

billion

kWh

respectively.

Secondly

, Germany was the only location where the

electricity

was 10% more used than produced, 526

billion

kWh

compared with 582

billion

kWh

.

Finally

, Korea was the

last

among the top ten

countries

, with 485

billion

kWh

production

and 449

billion

kWh

consumption

figures, which accounted for 10% of

China

's statistics,

while

the rest of the

countries

varied from around 10% to 20%.

Overall

, there was a disparity in the creation and usage of

electricity

between the

countries

, when

China

and the United States were two-thirds and all the rest eight

countries

only one-third of the total

electricity

industry, and only in Germany did the

consumption

overpass

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the

production

figures.