The bar chart illustrates the amount of money spent on five categories in 2009 among four countries. Overall, it is clear that food, household duties, and transport made up the majority of expenses, while on medicine and clothing citizens of the USA, Japan, Canada and the UK outlayed several times less money.
Most expenditures on nutritional goods were indicated in Japan, which spent almost 23% on this figure. At the same time, there was one-fifth for the UK of the whole proportion. The USA and Canada reported smaller investments in food consumption, nearly 14% and 15% correspondingly. Another costly figure, housing, appeared to be the most expensive for the USA, Canada and the UK in comparison with other spendings, since they allocated 27%, 22% and 24% of the money distributed. Japan citizens, albeit it was not their highest outlay, still invested a lot in this figure, 22% to be precise. With regards to the third major expense item, vehicles, there were 20% for Canada, 17% for USA, one-fifteenth for the United Kingdom and just one-tenth for Japan.
In contrast to the indicators discussed, healthcare and clothes categories accounted for marginal outlays in all describing countries. Thus, the United States reported 7 and 3 percentages for these items. Similarly in Canada, where were allocated no well over 4% and 7% of the proportion. Finally, the lowest amounts on clothing goods and medicine individuals spent in the UK and Japan, as the bars of the former country revealed 2% and 6%, while the latter showed 4% for both.