The adjoining pie charts display how spending, population, and resource consumption are distributed globally. Taken as a whole, the data represents a significant disparity between population size and resource usage, with most of the resources available being consumed by disproportionately a small percentage of the whole inhabitants.
As is observed, Asia is the populous region, accounting for 57% of the global population. The USA and Europe contributed only a total of 28% of the global population, consuming 60% of the resources. This leaves the remaining 40% of those resources to be consumed by the rest of the other countries, including the highly populated Asian continent.
In terms of global expenditure, food represents the largest sector for the specific expenditure at 24%, followed by transport at 18%, housing at 12%, and lastly, clothing at 6%. The remaining 40% of spending is categorized as “Others”, which reflects the percentage of resources used by the non Western regions.
