The two pie charts below show total world energy consumption and electricity generation for last year. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The two pie charts below show total world energy consumption and electricity generation for last year.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The first bar graph depicts the percentage of the total amount of
energy
consumed
world wide
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,
while
the second chart illustrates the share of
world
electricity
generation by different
energy
sources
last
year.
Overall
, it is readily apparent that the majority of the
world
's power
sources
was
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consumed using oil,
while
coal was the key raw material used to generate
electricity
. As can be seen in the graph, oil, coal and gas were the three major
sources
of
energy
that the
world
consumed
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, with the proportion of all combined equals
to
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over 80% of the total amount.
However
, there were
also
other minor
sources
,
such
as combustible renewables and waste, nuclear power, and hydropower, accounting for 10.6%, 6.5% and 2.2%, respectively. Other
sources
unknown constituted
of
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less than 1% of the total
energy
consumed. In terms of
electricity
production, it is obvious that the main source was
from
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coal, at almost 40%. The second was gas, which constituted one-fourth of
electricity
generation globally. Next
were
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power from hydro dams and nuclear plants, which shared
similar
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a similar
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figure at around 16%. On
contrary
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, no significant amount of
energy
was generated using oil and other raw materials, as both combined account for less than 10%.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words energy, world, electricity, sources with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "graph" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.

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