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Shares of expenditures for selected categories

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The bar graph compares how much Americans, Canadians, English, and Japanese spent on food, housing, transportation, health care, and clothing in 2009. Generally speaking, housing and food cost more to these nationalities than other expenses this year. As is given in the graph, United States had the highest housing expenditure share, 26% of total expenditures in 2009, while Canadians accounted for the lowest proportion at 21%. The figures for UK and Japanese residents were almost the same, at 24% and 22% respectively. Besides that, Japanese spent around 23% of their money on food, which was higher than that of other nationalities. UK residents’ spending on food was one-fifth of their total expenditure while it was less than 15% for the citizens of the USA and Canada. On the other hand, transportation cost in Canada was the highest at 20%, while Japanese just spent 10% for commuting. Healthcare and clothing were the least two expensive sectors. Only US people made more than 5% expenditure in healthcare while this was less than 5% in other three countries. Finally, clothing comprised just over 5% of total expenditure in Canada and the UK while this was less than 5% in Japan and the US.

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