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.

The bar chart illustrates portions of consumption in the most important sections (

food

, housing,

transportation

,

health

care

and clothing) in four countries ( United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan) in 2009 The

overall

trend shown in the data is a rise in the proportion of expenditures on

food

, housing and

transportation

,

coupled with

a decline in the rate of expenditure on

health

care

and clothing in all countries. In the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom , the consumption of housing was the highest, approximately 26% in the US ,

While

the lowest was on clothing , just under 5%.

Whereas

, in Canada consumed

similarly

on housing and

transportation

at the rate of 20%, with

food

consumption a close second. In the United Kingdom, they consumed

food

,

transportation

, clothing and

health

care

around ( 21% , 15% , 6% and 3% respectively ). Differently, in Japan, the expenditure on

food

was the highest at 23 % ,

while

on

health

care

was the lowest, just below 4%.