shares of expenditure for five major categories in the United states ,Canada, Japan and UK in 2009

The given bar chart illustrates the percentages of money spent by UK, USA, Japan and Canada residents on five different purposes in 2009. Overall, It is obvious that the majority of people s expenditure among the four countries was in accommodation, while the lowest amount of money was spent in health care and clothing. The USA’s people had the highest housing expenditure, 26% of total expenditure in 2009 and followed by the United Kingdom and Japan, with 24% and 22% respectively. However, Canada had the largest transportation cost at 20% followed by USA, UK and Japan respectively, it had the lowest housing cost at 21%. According to the food, Japanese consuming 23% of their incomes in food, and British people had the next highest at 20%, while Canadian and American consuming was under 15%. Both health care and clothing was minor needs, so the lowest figures was in these categories. USA expenditure share in health care was nearly 7 %, whereas in clothing was 4%. The percentage of Canadian in these categories was similar at approximately 4%.