The chart compares data about the proportion of expenditure patterns on five specific resources in four countries: the USA, Canada, the UK, and Japan, in the year 2009.
Overall, the expenditure rates were higher in all these nations, with the exception of health care and clothing, where reversal patterns can be observed. Moreover, sources of food, housing, and transportation exhibited considerably higher figures for spending compared to the rest of the sources.
Focusing on the bigger numbers first, a little over half of the spending was on food in the USA, with a small disparity in numbers between food and housing, roughly 13% and 26%, respectively. There was, however, a much more noticeable discrepancy in the figures when it comes to the next expense on housing, in which all nations have spending outcomes more at par compared to other patterns of allocation of money.
Regarding the less popular means, in contrast, the outlays on health care and clothing services decreased substantially in all countries, which meant these categories were not common. Additionally, in Japan, allocation for those two patterns showed the same indicators at just fewer than 5%, whereas showing the lowest share on health care at approximately 3% presented a slight rise on clothing at just over 6% in the UK. Furthermore, the USA kept its domination among categories, despite clothing, food, and transportation.
When it comes to Canada, this nation was in the average line of all expenditure patterns, despite a rise on transportation and clothing at 20% and just over 7%, in turn. The downsides were seen mostly in the UK, especially on health care and transport systems at 7% and 15%, respectively, which meant these trends displayed a great decline from each other.