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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 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.
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The bar graph below presents five major categories of expenditures (Food, Housing, Transportation, Health Care, and Clothing) in four different countries (US,
UK
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,
Canada
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, and
Japan
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) in 2009.
Overall
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, housing was the most costly category among the four countries in 2009,
whereas
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 the least amount of money was spent on healthcare products. In terms of housing, the US spent above 25% of its expenditure, followed by the
UK
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, at about 23%.
Canada
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 spent the smallest number of money on housing compared to the other three countries, at 20%.
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, only above 5% of
Canada
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’s expenses on clothing and the US spent the lowest amount of it, at approximately 4%. Food was the second highest-costing category where
Japan
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 and the
UK
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 spent above 20% on it and the US and
Canada
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 consumed almost 15% of it. It can be seen that there was a significant difference in expenditure between the US and the
UK
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, as the US spent on healthcare at about 8%,
whereas
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 the
UK
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 only spent about 2.5%. Meanwhile,
Canada
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 and
Japan
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 paid for it in the same percentage, at 4%. Another clear difference in the expenditure was that transportation was the most spent category in
Canada
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, at 20%, but
Japan
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 only spent 10% of it.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "whereas".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words uk, canada, japan with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "difference" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "about" was used 3 times.
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