The table illustrates the percentages of national consumer expenditure by category in five countries.Overall, expenditure on food, drinks and tobacco with the highest rate (32.14%) is observed in Turkey. Clothing and footwear spendings in Italy is at the peak percentage rate (9.00%), whilst consumption proportion in leisure and education is undoubtedly recorded the highest(4.35%) in Turkey.
Initially, the highest spending in all countries was on food, drinks and tobacco, while the consumption in leisure and education is accounted as the smallest proportion. Overally, Turkey showed greatest expenditure in each category compared to the rest countries, while Sweden markedly spent the least on foods, drinks and tobacco and Spain had the least record of outlay for leisure and education.
Regarding to the foods, drinks and tobacco, Turkey was recorded with the highest amount of consumption with 32.14%, followed by Ireland with 28.91%. Spain, Italy and Sweden spent less than 20%, which is appearing that Sweden has the lowest rate with 15.77%.
For clothing and footwear, Italy had the highest rate with 9%, by far higher than the other nations that ranged between 5.40% in Sweden and 6.63% in Turkey.
Expenditure on leisure and educational was slight in all five countries. Turkey is ranked first at 4.35%, however, Spain is plateaued the lowest with only 1.98%. Sweden and Italy spent almost the same 3.22% and 3.20% respectively, and Ireland at 2.21%