The pie charts show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in 2010

The pie charts below depict five different household expenses in 2010 in Malaysia and Japan. The unit is denoted by percentage.

According to

the data, there were five main sectors of expenditures in one household, namely Housing, Transportation,

Food

,

Healthcare

and Other

goods

and

services

. In general, we can see that Housing, Other

goods

and

services

,

Food

and Transport were the four biggest contributors to the expense in both regions

while

Healthcare

only accounted for a small minority. In Japanese households, the spending on consumer

goods

and other

services

took up 29% which was the largest proportion compared with others.

Moreover

, the rate of

food

expense ranked second with 24% followed by 21% for accommodation

whereas

transport made up only 20%.

Finally

, the lowest percentage for family expenditure was in the

healthcare

sector with just 6%. In terms of Malaysia,

it is clear that

they spent the most on houses which contributed 34% of their budget

then

their second highest rate was for

Food

at 27%, followed closely by 26% of spending on more

goods

and

services

.

In contrast

, the two smallest proportions were in transport and

healthcare

at 10% and 3% respectively.