The two given pie charts illustrate the average distribution of consumption in five categories in all families in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.
As an overall perspective, in both graphs the number of items across different categories is mixed. Although, housing, food and other goods and services had the biggest share, transport and health care had the lowest costs in both countries.
As can be clearly seen from the graph, among all categories, housing in Malaysia and other goods and services in Japan , with 34% and 29% respectively, have significantly highest portion in household spending. In contrast, health care was allocated as a minimum contribution in both countries , which means reported all people who live together in one house didn’t spend more money on health .
In terms of comparison, the proportion of household spending on transport in Japan was two times greater than in Malaysia , which Indicated Malaysian household spending less for vehicular movement. In addition, food in Malaysia , with 27% was three times bigger in comparison of Japan.