The table below shows consumer spending on different items in 5 countries in 2002.
The table illustrates the proportion of adults' expenditures on three expenditures across five
countries
in 2002. Overall
, we can identify that food/drinks/tobacco are the largest spending throughout all countries
, followed by clothing/footwear and lastly
education
and leisure
.
It is clear that
all five countries
' largest spending is towards food/drinks and tobacco. Turkey has the largest spending on this
category (32.14%) compared to other European countries
, followed by Ireland with almost 29%, equivalent to four times the spending on the other two categories combined (Clothing/footwear and Leisure
/Education
). Spain follows third in this
category with 18.80%, which is more than thrice the amount spent on clothing and twenty times on leisure
and education
.
With regards to the remaining two European countries
, approximately more than 16% of adult's salaries contribute to food and drinks in Italy, whereas
Italy has the highest spending on clothing and footwear at just 9%, accounting for twice the figures for Sweden. Both Sweden and Italy have relatively similar figures towards Leisure
and Education
(3.20 and 3.22%) respectively.Submitted by vanshbisht11 on
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