Writing task 1 exercise : The average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in 2010.

The charts illustrate the average household spending on Japan and Malaysia in terms of five important categories in 2010.

Overall, it is clear that householders in both countries spent the largest proportion of their income on just three categories - housing, food and other goods and services. The percentage figures for spending on transport and healthcare in Japan were double those for Malaysia.

In Malaysia households, the highest category was housing, which represented 34% of the totally expenditure. whereas this was hight than in Japan, with just 21% spent on housing, Japanese householders spent the highest proportion on a range of other goods and services, at 29%. This was slightly more than in Malaysia. In terms of food, the figures for both countries were similar, at 27% and 24% for Malaysia and Japan respectively.

Expenditure on healthcare was the lowest category. In Japan, this made up 6% of the total, while 20% of household spend on transport. These figures were exactly double those of Malaysia.