The pie charts illustrate the proportion of average household expenses in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.
If we look at Japan, other goods and services made up the largest share, while housing accounted for the biggest proportion in Malaysia.
According to the pie charts, in 2010, 29% of total expenditure in Japan went on other goods and services, while the relevant figure in Malaysia was slightly lower than that, at 26%. Another 24% of Japan expenses was allocated to food, compared to 27% in Malaysia. As for housing, the figures were 21% and 34% for Malaysia and Japan, respectively. As regards transport and health care, the figures for Japan were twice as high as those in Malaysia in both cases, accounting for 20% compared to 10% for transport, and 6% compared to 3% for health care, respectively.
