The pie charts below show average household expanditure in Hong Kong and Britain in the year 2000.
The pie charts show the
proportion
of money spent on various household expenses in Hong
Kong
and Britain
in 2000.
we can see that in Hong
Kong
the greatest proportion
of expenditure (32%) was on housing, while
in Britain
housing accounted for just 18% of the total.
In contrast
, in Britain
the greatest single expense was other goods and services at 36%, compared with 28% in Add a comma
,Britain
Hong
Kong
. Food came in second place in Britain
, at 22%, while
in Hong
Kong
the actual proportion
was higher (27%). In Britain
another major expense was transport, at 17%, but Add a comma
,Britain
this
was much lower in Hong
Kong
(9%).
In both countries
the smallest percentage of expenditure was on clothing.
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Overall
, the data indicates that in both cases food, housing and other goods and services were the main expenses, but in Britain
, transport and other goods and services took up a higher proportion
of total expenditure than in Hong
Kong
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