The pie charts below show the average household expenditure in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.

The pie charts illustrate the average household expenditure in two different countries (

Malaysia

and

Japan

) on five different categories (housing, transport, food, health care, and other goods and service) in one particular year (2010).

Overall

, housing made up the highest proportion of expenditure in

Malaysia

,

while

in

Japan

, it was on other goods and services.

Furthermore

, both countries had the lowest spending on healthcare. With regards to housing,

Malaysia

spent more money on it as opposed to

Japan

at around a third (34%) and approximately a fifth (21%) respectively.

Similarly

, the former country had more spending on food compared to the latter by 3%. In terms of other goods and services, people in

Japan

spend more of their income in

this

category than those who were in

Malaysia

by a small fraction (3%).

Moreover

, the Japanese spend double the amount on transportation than

Malaysia

.

Although

the Japanese spent more money on healthcare compared to the Malaysian, the difference was very minimal (3%)