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 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 charts compare the proportion of spending on different goods and
services
in two countries in 2010.
Overall
, It can be seen that people in both countries spent the largest part of their incomes on Housing and Food
services
,
while
Health Care received the lowest share of
expenditure
. House
services
were the highest
expenditure
in Malaysia,
accounted
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for 34 %,
while
Japanese households allocated just 21% of their budget to
this
category. In terms of Food, the percentage of
expenditure
in Japan and Malaysia was similar at 24% and 27%, respectively. Regarding
remaining
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the remaining
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categories, Japanese households spent a fifth of the total spending on Transport
services
, twice as much as the figure for Malaysia.
Health care
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Healthcare
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services
received the lowest proportion of average household
expenditure
in
two
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the two
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countries,
while
Other goods and
services
were quite significant, at over a quarter in each country.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
Common mistake: Your writing should be 150-250 words.
Vocabulary: Replace the words services, expenditure with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Only 6 basic words for charts were used.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.

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