The bar chart illustrates the percentage of money spent on food, housing, transportation, healthcare and clothing in four countries[United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan] in 2009.
Overall, it is noticeable that the countries spent more money on Housing, Transportation and Food than other areas such as Healthcare and Clothing. Japan spent more money on Food than the other expenditures while United States spent more money on housing than the rest.
Housing was an important commodity to people in all the countries. United States disbursed exactly 25% of its money to housing, the highest that was spent on a consumer good. People in UK and Canada also spent more on housing than they did for the rest with about 24% and 21% respectively. People in Japan spent more on food than they did for the rest with about 23%. Japan spent almost the same money on housing with about 22%.
People in the countries spent the lowest on healthcare and clothing. The countries except the United States disbursed the least money to healthcare with Canada and Japan just below 5% and United Kingdom at about 3%. United States disturbed the least money to clothing at about 4% of its expenditures.
