The table below gives information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.

The table graph depicts the figure for expenditures on daily necessities in four European and one Middle-East

countries

in 2002.

Overall

, it is obvious that all nations purchased the most food/drinks/tobacco,

while

the least consumption was on leisure and education. In terms of food/drinks/tobacco, the Turkish spent the most at 32.14%, which recorded more than double compared to the Swedish who consumed the goods the least among those five nations (15.77%). Ireland

also

experienced considerably higher consumption of these groceries at 28.91%,

while

, the rest of the

countries

,

such

as Spain and Italy witnessed a similar proportion of expenditures on those commodities, 18.80% and 16.36% respectively.

According to

the data in clothing/footwear, there was a significant remarkable number of these goods in Italy at 9%,

whereas

the figure for these necessities in Turkey, Spain, Ireland, and Sweden was only between 6% and 5%.

It is clear that

all five nations were less paying for leisure/education. Spanish was the least consumer for those categories (1.98%),

on the other hand

, Turkish experienced almost triple (4.35%) compared to Spanish and double to Irish (2.21%). The remaining

countries

averaged around 3.2%.

To sum up

, the expenditure on food/drinks/tobacco was by far the most in all

countries

, and Turkey spent the largest amount of money on all three categories of items.