The diagram illustrates details on the average of household expense in two countries, Japan and Malaysia, in 2010.
Overall, housing contributes the largest proportion of expenditure in Japan, while other goods and services are accounted for the biggest segment in Malaysia.
In Japan, people prefer to spend their money for other goods and services with 29%, followed by food, housing and transport were similar (24%, 21% and 20%). However, health care was lower than other sectors, since its average is below 10.
Malaysian citizens tended to other goods and services for their expenditures that was recorded with 34%. Moreover, food is the second highest contributor, which was 27 %, that was higher than other goods and services having only 26%. In addition, transport ad health care were below 15%, two smallest proportion.
