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.

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

Food

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,

Healthcare

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and Other

goods

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and

services

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. In general, we can see that Housing, Other

goods

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and

services

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,

Food

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

while

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Healthcare

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

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and other

services

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

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, the rate of

food

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

whereas

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transport made up only 20%.

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, the lowest percentage for family expenditure was in the

healthcare

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sector with just 6%. In terms of Malaysia,

it is clear that

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

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their second highest rate was for

Food

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

goods

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and

services

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.

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, the two smallest proportions were in transport and

healthcare

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at 10% and 3% respectively.