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These graphs is not how it works, progress (in China and other sane-ish parts of the world) will probably speed up in the near future and then slow down as we run out of low-hanging fruit. You can't project the behavior of extremely complex systems like this. See also:
But yeah in general US is clearly getting left behind on things that will matter this century. Hopefully it won't manage to drag the rest of us down with them.
A lot of countries are already quite far along. Norway, DRC, Uruguay, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Albania and a bunch of others are doing much better then China or the US. If you include nuclear also France and Sweden go pretty far. Also Brazil is at nearly 90%.
How do they compare with China in terms of energy use per capita? China is the world's factory, this level of industrial output requires a lot of energy.
It depends. France is on a similar level to China, but much cleaner, Sweden and Norway are well above China. The other use much less. It is complex for sure. Especially when you consider efficiency as well.