Band 5+: The bar chart below gives information about five countries spending habits of shopping on consumer goods in 2012. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph compares four countries namely, Belgium, Spain, Austria, and, Britain in terms of expenditure on different consumer goods in 2012.

Overall, Britain had the largest spending on all categories with the peak in cameras. In addition, almost all countries spent relatively small amount of money on console games, outdoor game accessories and cosmetics compared to the spending on books, toys and cameras.

However, Belgium, being the exception, had more spending on the first three categories: console games, outdoor game accessories and cosmetics with the highest spending at 150,000 pounds string on outdoor game accessories. On the contrary, Spain saw approximately the same amount of spending on all consumer goods at around 155,000 pounds string.

The greatest difference in spending was seen in Austria having the lowest amount of expenditure of any country at just over 140,000 pounds string on outdoor game accessories. Nevertheless, it also had the third hightest spending at above 165,000 pounds string on cameras. In terms of Britain, it spent the largest amount of money on all six shopping items with the lowest point at over 155,000 pounds string on console games.