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.

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.
The bar chart illustrates the amount of money spent on five major categories(
food
, housing, transportation, health care and clothing) in the United States,
Canada
, the United Kingdom and
Japan
in the year 2009. Units are measured in percentage.
Overall
, it can be seen that the countries spent most of their money on housing,
food
and transportation. The US and
UK
had the highest shares of expenditures in housing. In terms of
food
, the United States spent about 13% shares on
this
as opposed to exactly 15% in
canada
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whereas
the
UK
had about 21% and
Japan
which
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appeared to
spent
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the most money on
food
which was just about 23%.
Next,
the USA had the highest percentage in housing (26%) followed by the
UK
(24%).
Then
,
the
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Japan
was at ( 22%) compared with
canada
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Canada
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which stood at ( 21%).
Following
this
, the number of
transportation
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were
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more variable as
canada
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Canada
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was at (20%), just above the USA at (19%) and
Japan
and
Uk
were lower at (15% and 10%) respectively. Expenditures on health care
ranges
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from a low of (3%) in the
UK
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