Shares of expenditure for selected categories, USA. UK, Canada and Japan, 2009.

The bar chart illustrates data about the promotion of expenditures in five various categories in four different nations in 2009. Overall, three categories namely food, housing and transportation highest in popularity among the nations over the given period, while expendituring health care and clothing became less preferred. Furthermore, the expenditure of housing stood out from its counterparts by experiencing the more high preferred. To begin with, the most shares of expenditures for housing in USA at around 30% and the second most housing was in UK, where it was about 25%. While housing in Japan was the third most expensive, at approximately 23% in contrast, just one tenth of housing was in Canada. Moreover, food in Japan was only half as high as than in the UK, at about 25% and 20% respectively. Whereas the USA was equally important with Canada for food, at around 15%. Furthermore, transportation in Japan was three times as low as in Canada, 10% and 20% respectively and almost two tenth of transporting in the USA was higher than in the UK, at about 17% and 10% in term. On the other hand, Japan did not as high as the USA for health care at about 10% compared to at nearly 5% in Japan. While Canada was much higher than UK, around 4% and 2 % in turn. However, clothing in all given nations were equally important, at approximately 6%.