The given diagrams depict average spendings of families on five different categories in Britain and Hong Kong during the year of 2000.
Overall, it can be seen that most families in Britain preffered spending on other goods and services, while Hong Kong had the smallest amount of expenditure on clothing.
Firstly, in Britain, other goods and services were the largest segment at 36%, compared with 28% of Hong Kong. Then, 22% expenditure of families were allocated to food, in comparison with 27% in Hong Kong. Next, in Britain another major expenses were on transport at 17%, while in Hong Kong expenditure on this category accounted to 9%.
Conversely, the proportion of housing exceeded that of in Britain by 18%, whereas the smallest percentage in Hong Kong was 32%. Finally, the share of clothing was 7% in Britain, while this trend took up 4% of the total share in Hong Kong.
