The table illustrates the proportion of monthly household income five European countries spend on food and drink , housing, closing and entertainment.

The table describes how five

countries

in Europe manage their monthly household budget in terms of their spending on

food

and

drink

, housing, clothing, and

entertainment

.

Overall

, housing and

food

and

drink

make up a substantial proportion of monthly expenditure in all

countries

, with France, Germany, and the

UK

spending considerably more on housing

while

Turkey and Spain more on

food

and

drink

.

In contrast

, these

countries

expend considerably less on clothing and

entertainment

, with the exception of Germans, who spend slightly more on these categories than their other European counterparts. Regarding the biggest expenditure categories, people in the

UK

spend the most on housing, with 37%, followed by the Germans and French, who set aside roughly a third of their monthly income for housing expenses. The figures for Turkey and Spain,

on the other hand

, are much lower, at around a fifth. These two

countries

,

however

, have been found to spend particularly more on

food

and

drink

, at 36% and 31% respectively, in comparison with France, Germany and the

UK

, whose monthly

food

and

drink

expenditure stands at approximately a quarter. As for clothing and

entertainment

, Germans top the list with 15% and 19% respectively. The

UK

and Turkey come in a second close, at around 10% each.

In contrast

, France and Spain spend about twice as much on

entertainment

as they do on clothes, at 13% and 7% for the former and 15% and 8% for the latter.