The table illustrates how citizens in five different countries allocated their budget for three different purposes in 2002.
Overall, food, drinks, and tobacco products accounted for the largest part of people’s spending, regardless of where they lived. By contrast, leisure and education received the least money.
In 2002, Turkish people’s expenditure on food, drinks and tobacco products constituted 32.14%, while that of Italian and Swedish residents comprised only half as much, around 16% each. Meanwhile, 28.91% of the budget of the Irish was spent on these items, compared to Spaniards with just 18.8%.
Regarding the second-most money consuming products of the three, clothing and footwear, the expenses on them in Ireland, Spain, and Turkey composed more or less 6.5%. In the meantime, the figures in Italy and Sweden were 9% and 5.4%, respectively. The leisure and education costs of the Turkish represented approximately 4.35% whereas Italians and Swedes equally allotted these items 3.2% of their money, equally. Lastly, the statistics in the remaining nations bore striking similarities, at about 2%.