the bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of the cost of the top five categories in four different countries.

While

the X-axis shows the categories of expenditure, the Y-axis defines the proportion.

Overall

, what stands out from the graph is that most of the money is spent on housing and the least is used for healthcare.

Moreover

, another interesting point is that though the United States spends most of its money on housing, the least is used on clothing. Japan spends the majority of its shares on food and housing and the figures are 23% and 22% respectively.

However

, their less concentration is on health care and clothing, which is only less than or equal to 4%.

On the other hand

, Canada’s maximum amount is going for either housing or transportation and the total payment for housing and transportation is around 42%. Alternatively, in the case of the United States and the United Kingdom, their housing outlay is maximum compared to any other country.

Whereas

the US spends 27%, the UK spends 23%.

Nonetheless

, compared to these costs health care payment for the UK and the clothing costs of the US is negligible.