The Bar Chart Below Shows shares of Expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.  Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the proportions of expenses

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food

, housing,

transportation

, health care, and clothing in four countries in 2009.

Overall

, what stands out from the graph is that the expenses of housing,

food

, and

transportation

were higher rather than those of the other two categories. Regarding the chart, it is obvious that in the USA a significant amount of money was allocated to housing and

transportation

, with nearly 25% and 20%, respectively,

while

all other three sectors accounted for less than 15%. In Canada, the expenditure of housing was as high as that of

transportation

with 20%

whereas

food

ranked second with 15%, and health care and clothing were altogether responsible for roughly 10%. Focusing on other countries, in the United Kingdom there was little difference between the shares of housing and

food

,

while

the former accounted for approximately 25%, the latter was lower by a margin of 5%. The remaining sectors were altogether responsible for a mere 23%. In Japan, the figures for

food

and housing were the same with 22%

as well as

health care and clothing with 5%, whilst

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transportation

accounted for a tenth.