The given charts depict the average household spending in two Asian countries, namely Japan and Malaysia in 2010.
Overall, it can be seen clearly that Japanese households spent the most expense on other goods and services, while Malaysian families spent the largest proportion of their income on Housing. Besides, Health Care was the common service which two countries paid the lowest expenditure during the survey period.
From the pie charts, both Malaysian and Japanese households spent almost the proportion of their income on Housing, Food, and other goods and services. In Malaysian families, the highest figure for their spending was Housing with 34%, while the Japanese just paid more than a fifth of their income for the same services. Food and other goods and services comprised 24% and 29% of the total spending in Japanese households, respectively, whereas Malaysian families spent just more than a quarter of their expenses for each category of two services.
On the other hand, the percentage of the spending on Healthcare and Transport was lower than other services, with 6% and 20% respectively in Japanese households. In Malaysia, people also paid the lowest income for Healthcare, with 3%. Transport accounted for one in ten of the total spending of Malaysian households, less than 10% of the same services as the Japanese.