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Using the table one can compute the arguably more useful relative change. This gives the following ranking. China is unsurprisingly on top.

20091970-2009 China$812 $737 982.7%Indonesia$625 $502 408.1%Tunisia$1,830 $1,379 305.8%Malaysia$2,626 $1,962 295.5%Thailand$1,391 $1,008 263.2%Dominican Republic$3,268 $2,282 231.4%Lesotho$642 $436 211.7%India$459 $292 174.9%Greece$10,947 $6,906 170.9%Malta$7,213 $4,547 170.6%Ireland$13,580 $8,475 166.0%Portugal$7,891 $4,901 163.9%Brazil$2,984 $1,816 155.5%Norway$20,096 $12,211 154.9%Chile$4,324 $2,622 154.1%United Kingdom$18,354 $11,027 150.5%Finland$14,286 $8,317 139.3%Japan$22,173 $12,771 135.8%Luxembourg$20,238 $11,446 130.2%United States$26,783 $14,906 125.5%Austria$14,112 $7,828 124.6%Iceland$17,291 $9,475 121.2%Spain$9,190 $4,959 117.2%Canada$15,658 $8,268 111.9%Belgium$12,668 $6,621 109.5%Morocco$1,056 $551 109.1%Germany$14,103 $7,332 108.3%France$13,717 $7,100 107.3%Italy$11,326 $5,862 107.3%Mexico$4,260 $1,997 88.2%Costa Rica$3,268 $1,497 84.5%Colombia$2,066 $902 77.5%Uruguay$6,180 $2,690 77.1%Philippines$942 $407 76.1%Netherlands$12,341 $5,317 75.7%Paraguay$1,090 $463 73.8%Ecuador$1,133 $472 71.4%Sweden$15,391 $6,149 66.5%Denmark$15,636 $6,232 66.3%El Salvador$2,315 $921 66.1%Kenya$350 $137 64.3%Honduras$1,005 $361 56.1%South Africa$2,382 $844 54.9%New Zealand$9,250 $3,224 53.5%Switzerland$21,905 $7,413 51.2%Guatemala$1,587 $525 49.4%Algeria$785 $237 43.2%Gabon$1,533 $314 25.8%Senegal$442 $85 23.8%Bolivia$871 $159 22.3%Peru$2,019 $327 19.3%Bangladesh$374 ($52)-12.2%Nicaragua$808 ($222)-21.6%Madagascar$192 ($222)-53.6%

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To be fair, the increase in consumption consists primarily of products made overseas and bought on credit.

Source: I made it up, but doesn't seem too far-fetched and shows how much the one provided statistic about consumption needs some context to have any meaning.

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