The chart gives information about the proportion of money spent on Food, housing, transportation, healthcare and clothing in the countries US, Canada, UK and Japan in a single year (2009).
Overall, the expenditure in US, Canada and UK experienced an upward trend with notable fluctuations while Japan decreased steadily over the period. Despite this, Japan spent most money on Food whereas, the US spent their money on Housing.
In 2009, US outlays into food sector reached more than 10% which further reached to a massive resurgence of more than 25% in Housing compared to other countries. The money spent by US on the transportation, healthcare and clothing decreased over the period and reaches to a low point of less than 5%. In Canada, the proportion of money spent on food reaches to 15% in 2009, which further increased by 5% for housing, the same country spent the money more on transportation while other countries didn’t spend much on that.
UK accounted with highest share of 20% and 24% on food and housing. However, healthcare is the least preferred sector reached to below 3%. Meanwhile, Japan recorded with highest of above 20% in food than other countries, which fell to around 21% to 4% in the remaining sectors. US and Japan exceeded with values slightly above 25% and slightly below 23% (Housing and Food) respectively.