The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The bar chart compares the consumption

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five primary categories, including food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in four different countries in 2009.

It is clear that

consumers spent money on housing much more than that

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the other four categories shown.

By contrast

, the percentage of citizens spending on health care was the lowest. It can be seen from the chart, the percentage of Americans allocating money to

‘housing’

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sector,

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26%, which was 12% and 9% higher than that for food and transportation respectively. Simultaneously, Japan invested more money

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food, at just 23%, followed by 14% of Americans, 15% of Canadians and just 20% of the British. The proportions of the US and

Canada

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purchasers expending on transportation were higher than the figures for the others, with around 17 % and 20% respectively.

On the other hand

, healthcare and clothing were the least two expensive sectors. There were no significant differences in the proportions of the citizens of these

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spending on clothing, around 4 % to 6%.

However

, the rate of expenditure for health care in the United States was 7%,

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figures for

Canada

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and

Japan

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citizens were the same,

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4%.