The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.

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of consumers from five different countries in different categories in the year 2002.

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, most people spend their earnings buying food, drinks and tobacco as compared to 3 other categories.

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, it is seen that the least percentage of

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was spent on leisure/education. Moving on, the population in Turkey spent 32.14% of their total earnings on food, drinks and tobacco which is the highest count amongst all

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Sweden stands at the bottom of

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category. People in Italy spent 9% of their total earnings on clothing/footwear

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other countries spent less as compared to Italy. Sweden was again at the bottom with 5.40% of its total

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spent on Clothing/footwear.

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all nations spend less on leisure/education as compared to other categories, it is noticeable that citizens in Turkey spent 4.35% which is the highest among all other countries that spent on leisure/education. People in Spain were at the bottom of

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section with 1.98% of

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.