The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in 2009.

The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in 2009.
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The bar chart compares the five top types of expenses in four different countries in 2009.
Overall
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, it is true that bills from housing are the highest number in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan, followed by food and transportation.
In contrast
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, in these four regions, there were few people spent on clothing and health care.
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most of the population spends their money on housing, being the USA the country which pays out nearly 25% of their expenditures, followed by the UK, Japan and Canada, with 24%, 22% and 21%, respectively.
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, food and transportation were the followed most spending, with an average of 15%, being Japan which consumes 23% of its spending on food and Canada 20% on transportation. Health care and clothing were the areas that the citizens less pay out for, with an average of 5% of the four countries'
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. The UK only had almost 2% from health care paying and the USA had almost 4% from clothing.
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  • expenditures
  • categories
  • shares
  • percentage
  • comparison
  • analysis
  • factors
  • spending patterns
  • living standards
  • priorities
  • trends
  • bar chart
  • economic
  • cultural influences
  • household budget
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