The table represents the percentage of money people from different countries allocate to food and drink, housing, clothing and entertainment from their household budget .
Overall what stands out is that Western European countries have highest expenditures in housing both when compared to other countries’s expenditures in the category and their own rates in other categories , but what is also very noticeable is that clothing is the category with the lowest expenditure across all of the countries.
If we look at France , Germany and UK’s rates , we will see that none of them surpassed the mark of 30% since they spent 25 , 22 and 27% respectively however in housing they were in the range of 30 to 40% with France spending 31% and UK spending 37% , as for clothing none of the countries’s figures were above 15% because Germany was the top spender in this category with only 15% of their budget allocated to dressing . Entertainment’s expenditures varied in the range of 10 -20% where UK spent 11% and Germany 19%.
Turkey and Spain’s numbers were lower in general , however they showed an unusual 30 to 40% range spent on food and drinks with 36 and 31% perspectively. When it comes to housing 20% was allocated in Turkey and only 18% was allocated in Spain on the other hand 12% of the budget was dedicated to clothing in Turkey and 8% in Spain. In entertainment neither of the countries exceeded the mark of 15% with Turkey spending 10% and Spain spending exactly 15%