The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The provided charts give the breakdown of the average expenditures of Malaysian and Japanese households in 2010. It can be clearly seen that the average expenditures were spent mostly on housing, food and other goods and services in

Japan

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.

Besides

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that, transport and

healthcare

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were the highest average expenditures in Malaysia. In Malaysian households, there was the greatest proportion of spending on housing, at 34% of the total expenditure,

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the figure for

Japan

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was just 21%.

Japan

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witnessed the largest spending on goods and services, at 29%. Meanwhile, it was slightly lower in Malaysia, just 26% of the total spending. Both these two countries shared almost the same figures for goods spending, at 27% in Malaysia, and 24% in

Japan

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.

On the other hand

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,

healthcare

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service was the smallest proportion of spending in both countries. Malaysian families were spending 3% on

healthcare

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services.

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, the figure for transport was slightly higher, at 10%. These figures for

healthcare

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and transport doubled in

Japan

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, at 6% and 2% respectively.