The table below compares the proportion of national expenditures in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey on the various types of consumer goods in 2002.

The table below  compares the proportion of national expenditures in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey on the various types of consumer goods in 2002.
The table demonstrates the percentage of domestic spending in five European countries on several kinds of consumer products in 2002.
Overall
, it can be seen that Turkish had the highest number of food/drinks/tobacco and leisure/education,
while
the largest figure for clothing/footwear was in Italy. Regarding food/ drinks/ tobacco, The most and the second most were shown in Turkey and Ireland at 32.14% and 28.91% respectively. Meanwhile, the figure for Italy, Spain, and Swedish was relatively the same with the percentage of Sweden accounting for 15.77%, the lowest. In terms of clothing/footwear, the proportion of Italy was the biggest at 9%.
Whereas
the figure for Ireland, Spain, and Turkey was observed to be around 6%, the number of Swedish illustrated the least at 5.40%. Turning to leisure/education, the expenditures in Turkish were the highest at 4.35%.
This
was followed by the percentage of Sweden and Italy at 3.22% and 3.2% respectively.
While
the number of Ireland was just 2.21%, Spain depicted the lowest proportion at 1.98%.
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