The pie chart compares the average household spending in two different countries in terms of five important categories in 2010.

The given pie charts illustrate the proportion of typical household

expenditure

spent on five clusters including Housing, Transport,

Food

, Health care and other goods and services in Malaysia and Japan in the year 2010. Looking at the

overall

perspective, it is apparent that the most significant categories which Japanese people paid for were Housing and

Food

, which together accounted for half the all

costs

.

On the other hand

, the

expenditure

on

Food

and Housing comprised more than 60% of the total payoff in Malaysia.

According to

Japan's pie chart, except for other goods and services which

was

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the first rank with 29% of total

expenditure

, the

costs

paid for

Food

stood second place at 24%, followed by both proportion of Housing and Transport clusters (21% and 20% respectively).

Also

, the

Health care

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healthcare

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share in total

costs

was very tiny and equal to 6%.

On the other hand

, the

costs

spent on Housing were considerable in Malaysia (34%), followed by

Food

and other goods and services both at almost just above one-fourth. Another cluster named Transport accounted for 10% of

expenditure

and similar to what can be seen in Japan's chart, Health care dedicated 3% of

costs

to itself which is a negligible amount