The bar chart shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

The bar graph demonstrates how much money was spent on five main categories in the USA, China, the UK, and Japan in 2009.

Overall

, the largest proportion of money was allocated to housing,

whereas

clothing and healthcare were the least popular among the four

countries

.

To begin

with, all the shares of housing expenditures in the four

countries

constituted approximately the same, accounting for between 20% and 25%.

However

, there were significant differences among

countries

in terms of food, which the figure for Japan was noticeably higher than that of the US by a large margin of 10%. Regarding transportation expenses, Canada took the first place with

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percentage of 20%,

while

the lowest spending level was attributed to Japan with 10%. To continue with, the shares of healthcare and clothing were lower than 10% in all

countries

.

While

the USA ranked first in terms of

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medical expenditures with

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proportion of 10%, Canada gave the preference to spend its money on clothing more than other

countries

, which constituted just over 5%.