The pie chart below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.

The provided chart gives the breakdown of the average expenditure of Japanese and Malaysian households in 2010 where units are measured in percentage.

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, we can clearly see that the average amount is mostly spent on housing, food, transport and other goods and services for both of the countries,

in contrast

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, the expenditure is quite low on health care. In Malaysian households, there was the greatest portion of spending on housing, at 34% of total expenditure,

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the part for Japanese people was just 21%. They witnessed the largest spending on other goods and services at 29%

whereas

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, it was slightly lower in Malaysia, just 26% of total spending.

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, regarding spending on food, these two countries, shared almost the same amount, 24% in Japan, and 27% in Malaysia.

On the other hand

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, health care service was the smallest proportion of spending for both countries. Malaysian families spend 3% on them.

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, the number for transport is a bit higher, at 10%. But, these statistics for household and healthcare doubled in Japan, at 6% and 10%, respectively.