This table demonstrates the consumer goods expenditure of Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey in 2002.
Overall, there are three categories of consumer spending: food, drinks, and tobacco had the highest expenditure compared to the other two categories, where Turkey had the highest outlay country by 32.14%. The leisure and education category had the lowest expenditure in all the countries, and Spain spent the lowest spending percentage by 1.98%.
The spending on clothing and footwear in Italy was higher by 9.00%, as opposed to the rest of the countries, where Sweden had less expenditure on these items by 5.40%. Ireland, Spain, and Turkey spent around averaged 6.5%.
Leisure and education did not exceed 5% of the outlay in all five countries, where Turkey spent the higher ratio of 4.35%, while Italy and Sweden spent 3.20% and 3.22%, respectively. The expenditure of Ireland was 2.21% and ranked before the lowest spending amount in Spain in this category.
