The pie chart blow shows the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts compare the average household spending in

Japan

and

Malaysia

in terms of five important categories in 2010.

Overall

,

it is clear that

Japanese and Malaysian people spent the largest proportion of their budget on just three categories, namely food, housing and other goods and services.

Moreover

, the percentages of transport and health care in

Japan

were double the figures for

Malaysia

. In Malaysian households, the greatest proportion of spending was on housing, which represented 34%of the total expenditure,

while

in

Japan

, the figure for

this

category was just 21%. Japanese householders spent the largest amount of their income on other goods and services, at 29%.

Meanwhile

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this

category in

Malaysia

was slightly lower, at 26%. In terms of food, the percentages of expenses for both nations were relatively similar, at 27% for

Malaysia

and 24% for

Japan

. In both countries, the smallest proportion of spending was on health care. In

Malaysia

,

this

accounted for 3% of the total household expenses,

while

the figure for transport represented 10%. These figures were exactly doubled in

Japan

which were 6% and 20% respectively.