The given bar chart illustrates the top ten countries that produced and consumed the largest amounts of electricity in the year 2014. Overall, China and the United States were the leading countries in both electricity output and consumption. In all the countries, except Germany, the electricity generation exceeded consumption.
China was the largest electricity producer and consumer among all the countries, with 5,398 billion kWh of power generation and consumption, followed by the United States, with 4,099 billion kWh of energy production and 3,866 billion kWh of consumption.
Russia was the only country among the other eight nations whose electricity production and consumption exceeded 1,000 billion kWh, with 1,057 billion kWh and 1,038 billion kWh, respectively. On the other hand, the Republic of Korea had the lowest electricity production and consumption, with only 485.1 billion kWh and 449.5 billion kWh, respectively.
Regarding the remaining countries, including Japan, India, Canada, France, Brazil, and Germany, their electricity outputs ranged from 526 to 937 billion kWh, while their consumption ranged from 455 to 857 billion kWh. It is interesting to note that Germany was the only country that consumed more electricity than it generated, with 582.5 billion kWh of usage and 526.6 billion kWh of production.