The table depicts comparisons regarding expenditure on three different categories in five different European countries, namely Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey in 2002.
Overall, it is evident that food, drinks and tobacco was attributed to consume by far the most money among the three types. Conversely, all five nations spent the least money for leisure and education in the period shown.
Looking at the information in more detail, Ireland and Turkey were the two countries which paid the most for food, drinks and tobacco, with the percentage of under 29% and approximately 32% respectively. Regarding clothing and footwear, Italy was the country which had the most expenditure on this sector with the proportion of exactly 9%. In addition, Italy and Swedish consumers witnessed the most and second spending on leisure and education, with the proportion of 3.2% and 3.22% correspondingly.
It can also be seen that of all six nations, Swedish people paid the least for both food, drinks, tobacco and clothing with merely under 16% and over 5% in each sector proportionally. Similarly, Spain also had the least expenditure on leisure and education, with under 2%.