The bar chart provides a comparative analysis of the top ten countries ranked according to their production and consumption levels of electricity in 2014. Overall, China and the United States were at the forefront, with significant rates of energy generation and consumption at the same time, while in countries from Russia ranked third to the Korea Republic, these figures were relatively smaller. Additionally, almost all countries produced and used the same level of electricity, with the exception of China, Russia, and Korea, as both figures reached parity and electricity consumption was a little higher than generation.
Standing first, China dominated both electricity production and consumption, with respective figures of staggering 5.398 and 5.322, markedly higher than the figures in the United States, 4.099 billion kWt of production and 3.866 billion kwt of usage. Russia produced and consumed slightly over 1 billion kwt of electricity, followed closely by Japan with 936.2 billion kwt of production and 856.7 billion kwt of consumption.
There were considerable variations in the remaining countries. India was in fifth place, with the rate of electricity production accounting for 871 billion kwt, much more than that of using, at 698.8. Next comes Canada, which represents higher production levels (around 6 billion kwt compared to 5 billion kwt). France and Brazil, however, followed similar trajectories, as over 5 billion kwt of electricity production and 4 and a half billion kwt of consumption were recorded in 2014. Notably, Germany emerged as the only country on the list, registering a slightly higher level of consumption as opposed to generation, at 582 and 526 billion kwt, respectively. The country with the country with the least amount of electricity produced as well as consumed was Korea, with relatively lower figures of 485 and 449 billion kwt.