The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the USA, Canada, the UK and Japan in 2009. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.
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The chart provides information about the percentage of money spent by four different
countries
on food, housing, health
care
, clothing and transportation during a one-year period. Units are measured in percentages.
Overall
, the Americans spent the most on housing while
the British spent the least on health
care
. Despite this
, all four countries
spent relatively the same on clothing,
In 2009, The United States spent around 25% on housing which was slightly more than the UK and Japan which stood at 24% and 23% respectively. In the same year, the spending on health
care
in the UK was less than 5%. However
, the remaining three countries
spent relatively similar amounts on health
care
.
In terms of clothing, all four countries
had similar expenditure figures. Although
, Canada and Great Britain spent a bit more on clothing. Both countries
spent more than 5% on clothes. In addition
, the biggest expenditure for Japan was food, it was more than 20%.Submitted by mraha409 on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words countries, health, care with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "information" in your introduction.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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