Despite this increase, the United States still ranks very low on individual consumption.
An expanding economy driven by ever greater individual consumption of ever more disposable products is bad.
To make our map we looked at purchasing power parity on actual individual consumption from Eurostat.
They take and hide collectively purchased food for their individual consumption.
The bulk of China's energy demand comes from industry and infrastructure, but individual consumption is also rising, albeit from a low base.
Updated at 8.21am BST 7.52am BST IMF cuts Chinese growth forecast A retail center, in Beijing today, where China's leaders have been advised to boost individual consumption.
In it, she argued both that contemporary consumption had ritual aspects that defined lifestyles, and that the increasing emphasis on individual consumption threatened a crisis in collective provision.
The measure - actual individual consumption - takes in all goods and services that a household consumes, including benefits in kind such as health and education.
There is a danger in following the Guardian's line of thinking, however, in that focusing too much on individual consumption mistakes means missing the rainforest for the trees.
On 9 October, Spain passed a tax on individual consumption on solar energy which, according to NGOs, has hindered the adoption of photovoltaic energy.
Since we are talking about the money that Mr X takes home for his individual consumption, this makes him seriously rich by North Korean standards.
