The table below gives information about consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
The table illustrates the proportion of
consumer
expenditure
in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden and Turkey
on three types of consumer
goods
in 2002.
Overall
, the category of consumer
goods
that all countries
spent most on was food, drinks and tobacco, which was three times higher than on the other types of goods
. The lowest spending could be seen in the category of leisure and education in all five countries
. The outlay of Turkey
was generally higher than the other four countries
.
In terms of food, drinks and tobacco, Turkey
spent the most at 32.14%. The expenditure
of Ireland was also
high (28.91%) compared to Sweden which spent the least (15.77%). Spain and Italy spent 18.80% and 16.36% respectively. On the other hand
, the lowest expenditure
was on leisure and education which accounted for under 5% in all countries
. Turkey
spent most on these items at just 4.35% of their national expenditure
which is around double that of Spain (1.98%).
Clothing and footwear was the third category of consumer
goods
and outlays for those items were between 9% in Italy and 5.40% in Sweden. The national spending in this
area for the remaining countries
averaged around 6.5%.Submitted by makemoneyizzy16 on
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