The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.
The grouped bar chart compares the proportions of money that people in the US, the UK, Canada, and Japan spent on five key sectors, namely food, housing, transportation, health care, and clothing in 2009.
Overall, people from 4 mentioned countries spent the most on housing, contrasting to the health care sector, which cost the least.
Americans had the most housing shares of all four countries, over a quarter of their total expenditures in 2009. The other three nationalities had to spend between 20 to 25 percent on accommodation. On the other hand, Japan had the highest food expenditure shares, approximately 23% of total expenses in 2009. Transportation was the major expenditure component in Canada as one-fifth of Canadians' spending is for traveling. By contrast, the Japanese did not spend much on transportation, only 10% of their expenses. Health care and clothing were the least expensive categories. Americans are the only ones who spent more than 5% of the total expenditure on health care. Finally, clothing accounted for more than 5% of the total expenditure in the UK and Canada while this was less than 5% in America and Japan.
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