The table demonstrates the percentage of expenditure on 3 categories in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey in the year of 2002.
Overall, all the countries spent their money mostly on food, drinks, and tobacco, however, the least money on leisure and education.
At a glance, we can see that people in Turkey spent the highest in food, drinks, and tobacco, with 32.14%, followed by Ireland, with 28.91%. Spain stood at the third place with 18.8%, and Italy, and Sweden were the lowest consumption in food, drinks, and tobacco, with 16.36% and 15.77%, respectively. Moreover, Turkey led the percentage of the expenditure on leisure and education as well. Consumers from Turkey spent 4.35%, 8 times less than expenditure on food, drinks, and tobacco. In the second and third place, Italy and Sweden made up nearly the same percentage, 3.2% and 3.22%, respectively. Expenditure in Ireland and Spain were the least with under 2.3%. In clothing and footwear sectors, Italy paid the highest percentage, with 9%, 3 times larger than that of leisure and education. In contrast, Sweden spent the lowest in this category, accounting for 5.4%. The rest of the countries took up the same portion, with over 6%.