The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.

The two pie chart illustrate how much money spent on various household necessities in Malaysia and Japan in 2010. Looking at the details, as regards housing, which was accounted for 21% in Japan and experience an increased by 13% in Malaysia, which was the highest proportion on housing. Similarly, in Japan, the percentage of food consist to 24% and had a slight growth of 27% in Malaysia. With regard to, in Japan, the proportion of transport contributed to at 20%, while this was much higher than that of in Malaysia(10%). Likewise, in terms of other goods and services, along with housing made up 29% and 6% in Japan, whereas, these figure fell to 3% in Malaysia, respectively. Surprisingly, in both countries, the smallest amount of expenditure was on health care. Overall, it is noticeable that the number of other services and goods was the higher proportion in Japan. Meanwhile, both countries allocate least on health care.