Band 6+: The bar chart below gives information about five countries spending habits of shopping on consumer goods in 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart illustrates the information about four nations spending habits in thousand pounds, of shopping on consumer products in 2012.

Overall, it can be seen that citizens of Britain spent the most amount of money every year as compared to the other three nations and rest of the nations had mixed patterns of expenditures.

Mentioning about money spent on console games, Britain topped the list by spending 155,000 pounds followed by Spain, spending 150,000 pounds and then, Belgium and Austria with a total expenditure of 145,000 pounds each. Further adding to this, Britain spent 155,000 pounds on Outdoor game accessories too, followed by Spain and Belgium with their expenditure near to 150,000 pounds with Spain exceeding a bit than Belgium. Austria spent the least for these goods which is 140,000 pounds.

For cosmetics, Britain once again spent the most however Spain was just slightly behind them followed by Belgium and then Austria. In the case of buying books, Britain was the expenditure topper for the fourth consecutive time with spending more than 165,000 pounds followed by Austria trailing by just 5000 pounds and then, Spain and Belgium in which, Belgium was the nation with the lowest amount spent.

In addition to the above mentioned categories, Belgium was the nation which disbursed the least amount of money on toys. Spain and Austria spent the same amount on toys which was more than that of Belgium. However, Britain still managed to be on top of this list by disbursing 170,000 pounds on toys which is the same amount they spent on buying cameras too. Austria was not much behind in terms of buying cameras than Britain as they spent the secondmost money for it, followed by Spain and then Belgium at the bottom.