The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts compare the median amount of money spent by households in
Japan
and
Malaysia
in 2010 and it is measured in percentage.
Overall
, what stands out from the charts is that the Japanese spent most of their budget on other goods and services,
while
people
in
Malaysia
spent on housing.
Furthermore
, health care accounted for the lowest percentage in both countries. With regard to housing and other goods and services, spending on housing in
Japan
made up 30%,
while
this
figure in
Malaysia
comprised just above one-fourth. Households in
Japan
allocated around one-fifth of their money to goods and services;
however
,
this
category constituted just above one-third of the total in
Malaysia
. Focusing on health care, transport, and food,
people
in
Japan
and
Malaysia
paid out on health care 6% and 3%, respectively. Transportation was responsible for one-fifth of the total expenditures of the Japanese,
while
Malaysian
people
spent half of
this
figure on transportation.
People
in both countries allocated a similar proportion of their budget to food; their respective figures for
Japan
and
Malaysia
were 24% and 27%.
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