The table below gives information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002

The table illustrates the proportion of national

expenditure

in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey on three types of

consumer

items in 2002.

Overall

, most people in the five countries spent their money on food, drink and Tobacco,

while

the lowest

expenditure

was on leisure and Education.

Then

, Turki was the country with the highest outlay compared to the four countries. In terms of food, drinks and Tobacco, Turkey spent the most at 32,14% followed by Ireland, at 28,91 %. It compared with Sweden and Italy spent at least (15.77%) and (16.36%) respectively.

In contrast

, Leisure and Education was the least of

consumer

expenditure

which accounted for under 5%. In

this

outlay, the Turki

consumer

dominated around 4.35%. The next items were clothing and footwear which were dominated by

consumer

spending from Italy at 9%.

On the other hand

, Sweden was the lowest country which bought

this

stuff at 5.40%. The remaining countries have similar rates of

consumer

expenditure

in clothing and footwear, just over 6%.