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

The table shows the

expenditure

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

Overall

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

Whereas

, it is seen that the least percentage of

expenditure

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

while

Sweden stands at the bottom of

this

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

whereas

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

expenditure

spent on Clothing/footwear.

Although

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

this

section with 1.98% of

expenditure

.