The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of spending on food, housing, transportation, health care, and clothing in four different countries in 2009.

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, people in four nations spent most of their

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on food, housing, and transportation,

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the figures for health care and clothing were lower. It can be clearly observed from the chart that the highest percentage of the Japanese

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was for food at approximately 23%,

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the proportion in the

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was 20% and those in Canada and the US stood at around 15%. Meanwhile, citizens in the US consumed over 25% of their

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on housing, followed by roughly 24% in the

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, 22% in Japan, and over 20% in Canada.

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, Canadians spent 20% of their total expenditure, which was 10%, 5%, and 3% higher than the figures in Japan, the

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, and the US. In terms of the other categories, these countries spent around 5% of their

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on clothing, which was slightly higher than that of their medical expenses.

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health care accounted for nearly 7% in the US, there were only 4% in Canada and Japan

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and 1% in the

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