The pie chart illustrates 5 aspects of household expenditures and its average percentages accross Japan and Malaysia in the year of 2010. The household expenditures in both of the countries are spent on Housing, Transport, Food, Health care, as well as other goods and services.
The two pie charts demonstrates how two countries have differences regarding in which aspects they spent on. From the left pie chart, it can be inferred that the other goods and services aspect are predominate to Japan’s household expenditure; followed by food, housing, transport, and health care. Conversely, on the right pie chart, the housing aspect predominantly places to the most aspect Malaysia’s household expenditure are spent on. In which, respectively followed by food, other goods and services, transport, and health care aspects.
Japan’s household expenditure mainly spent on other goods and services which are not vividly mentioned on the pie chart for about 29% and followed by the food aspect’s percentage which only have 5% gap, that is 24% . Meanwhile, Malaysia’s household expenditure focuses on providing the housing aspect for about 34%, in which it holds the highest percentage compared to the following aspect on food that reaches 7% gap in the percentage.
Other than other goods and services as well as food aspects, Japan also almost evenly expenses their household expenditures on housing by 21%, transport by 20%, and health care for only 6% respectively. On the other hand, Malaysia puts explicit gap percentages to the other aspects, which respectively followed the housing and food aspects, for about 26% on othergoods and services, 10% on transport, and 3% on health care aspect.