The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002. Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002

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

Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002
The table presents the percentage of citizens' consumer expenditure in three categories in five countries in 2002.
Overall
, all five nations spent the most on food/drinks/tobacco and leisure/education became the smallest. As we can see, food/drinks/tobacco had more than one-eight in each country, the largest was Turkey at just above one-third followed by Ireland with 28.91%
while
the least proportion in
this
category was Sweden at almost 16%. Clothing/footwear was the second category with a percentage rate ranging from 5% to 9%. Italy recorded as the biggest spender in
this
category at just one
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below 10% and there was one country that written below 6% which is Sweden. Leisure/Education, which only averaged about 2-3% of five nations' spending, made Turkey the highest at 4.35%, followed by Sweden and Italy at 3.22% and 3.20%, respectively.
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