IELTS TASK 1 PIE CHARTS

The pie charts below show the average household expenditure in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010

The charts illustrate household consumers spent on housing, transport, food, healthcare and other goods and services in two different countries in 2010.

Overall, it is clear that the spending on food, housing and other goods and services accounted for the highest proportion while householders in both nations allocated the lowest expenditure on health.

As can be seen from the charts, the amount of money spending on housing in Malaysia households was higher than that of Japan, took up around 34% and 21%, respectively. Similarly, in Malaysia, around 27% of expenditure was used for food, while the figure for Japan households was 24%. The opposite trend can be seen when we look at other goods and services spending. This sector made up 26% of the total amount of money used in Malaysia was lower than that of Japan, took up around 29%.

Turning to the remaining sector, we can see that the lowest percentage of household expenditure was healthcare. Japanese householders used their money for transport and health, accounted for 20% and 6%, respectively, was twice as much as that of Malaysia.