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.

Contained in the bar chart is data pertaining to the spending on five main types in 4 nations during 2009.

Overall

, it can be seen that money was spent more on food, housing, and transportation, with the exception of health care and clothing.

Additionally

, housing had the most expenditure in all 5 categories. In 2009, over 20% of expenditure in 4 countries was spent on housing,

while

the figures for health care were noticeably lower ranging from 1% to 7%, making

this

a significant difference. With respect to clothing, Canada had the highest percentage about 7%, closely followed by the United Kingdom stood at around 6% and the other 4 countries had a similar proportion about roughly 4%. Turning to the remaining types, the highest data was recorded at around 23% expenditure on food in Japan. Below

this

level was the United Kingdom, Canada and the United State at about approximately 19%, exactly 15% and nearly 14%, respectively.

By contrast

, the spending on transportation was spent most in Canada at nearly 19%, and the remaining 4 nations were 17% or lower.