The given charts illustrate the expenditure on a weekly basis spent by people in the UK and the US on six different categories, namely, DVDS, books, going out, transport, food, and rent.
Overall, rent and food account for the biggest proportion in both countries’ spending. As well as that, the percentages of the weekly expenses of DVDs, going out, and transport are similar.
In the UK, people spend most of their budget on renting, which takes up 30% total expenses every week. The figure for this in the remaining nation are a little lower, at exactly one-fifth of the population’s expenditure, ranking second after the proportion of expense for food which constitute a quarter of total spending on a week. Meanwhile, there is just a discrepancy in the weekly spending rate for books between the UK and the US’s people, comprising 12% and 15%, respectively.
In terms of going out and transport, two countries’ populations spend the same percentage of money every week on these two activities, at 15% each. DVDs takes up the remaining one-tenth of the total expenses.