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. Summarize the information by selecting reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates expenses for significant purposes including food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in four nations in 2009.

Overall

, consumers spent the largest proportion of their earnings on housing

while

the opposite was true for health care except in the US where individuals spent the smallest amount of money on clothing. Looking at the three highest

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, citizens in the US allocated the majority of their budget to housing, with above 25%

whereas

that of food and transportation were significantly less, with 15% and 18% respectively.

Similarly

, the shares of expenditure for housing accounted for the biggest proportion of total expenditure in Canada, the UK and Japan at about 20%, 24% and 22% respectively. It is noticeable that food shares in Japan

also

represented the largest percentage of total spending, at 20%, which doubled that for transportation in

this

country. The opposite trend can be seen in other expenditures, residents in all nations allocated only approximately 5% of their funds to fashion. Out of four countries, medical care expenditures in the UK

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marginal, with about 2% of the spending, which was the lowest percentage compared to that of the remaining nations which ranged from 4 to 6%.