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

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, housing,

transportation

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,

health

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care

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

overall

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

food

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, housing and

transportation

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,

coupled with

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a decline in the rate of expenditure on

health

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care

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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 ,

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the lowest was on clothing , just under 5%.

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, in Canada consumed

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on housing and

transportation

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at the rate of 20%, with

food

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

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,

transportation

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, clothing and

health

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care

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

food

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was the highest at 23 % ,

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on

health

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care

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was the lowest, just below 4%.