The bar chart illustrates how the proportion of expenditures changed across five major categories in four different countries in 2009.
Overall, it can be seen that the majority of spending was on housing in comparison with food and transportation purposes, whereas health care and clothing registered relatively lowest points.
According to the chart, the United States had the highest shares of spending on housing at 20%, compared to approximately 24% in the United kingdom. Meanwhile, the percentages for Canada and Japan accounted for around a quarter. When it comes to food, the Japan made up nearly 23% in comparison with the United Kingdom, which stood at 21%. At this point, this suggests that the Japan was the top ranked country for spending on food. As for Canada, only 1% more spending was observed on food comparison to the United States, which indicates that difference was negligible there.
In addition, when we consider transportation, the figure for Japan was near a tenth, whereas the spending by Canada was 16%. Regarding United States, the data was at roughly 18%, while the United kingdom was at only 15%. Interestingly, there was a relatively similar spending of 1% for clothing between the United kingdom and Japan. Regarding the United States and Canada, the amounts were 13% and 11% respectively. Finally, we observed an interesting spending pattern for health care, while the united States, Canada, Japan and the United kingdom were spending 1% less respectively.