You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The charts below give information about world spending and population. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts compare the shares of four major items in global expenditure,

as well as

how

global

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population

is distributed.

Overall

, the largest proportion of money in the world is allocated to food,

while

transport, housing and clothing are other significant items.

Moreover

, the

population

of Asia is responsible for the largest group of humans.

According to

the first chart, the most significant amounts are paid for food (almost a quarter of global expenditure) and transport (almost 20%),

while

housing

also

accounts for a considerable proportion. The least among the four is spent on clothing (merely 6

percent

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) and the remaining 40% is spent on a variety of other items. The second chart shows that there is a significant difference between the

population

of Asia and that of other continents since approximately 3 out of every 5 human beings live in Asia. Europe and the Americas share similar proportions and together are host to roughly one-third of the world’s

population

,

while

the inhabitants of Africa form a mere one-tenth.