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TIL that around the globe, no country produces more electricity than China. At nearly eight million gigawatt-hours of electricity annually (7,779,100 GWh), China leads the rest of the world by quite a large margin, nearly double the amount of the second-ranked United States (4,286,600 GWh).

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