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. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The chart illustrates the proportions of expenditures for food, housing, transportation, health care, and clothing in the US, Canada, the UK, and Japan in 2009.

Overall

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it is clear that

people in the five countries spent

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housing in general in the year 2009.

In contrast

, the expenditure for health care accounted for the lowest percentages

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average. Looking at the information in more detail, we can see that consumers in the US spent around 26% of their money on housing in 2009, which was the highest among all the figures,

while

the

expenditures

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expenditure

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for clothing

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this

country was lower than

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nations. Japanese,

by contrast

, spent most of their money on food, accounting for about 23%, which was slightly higher than the

exoenditure

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expenditure

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housing. In terms of Canada, its spending on housing was

higer

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higher

than other categories, which represented just over 20%, the second highest expenditure was on

tranportation

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transportation

, accounting for 20%, which was twice as much as the figure for Japan. Meanwhile, the UK had the most unbalanced expenditures, whose highest proportion

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spending was

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housing

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about 24%,

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its lowest expenditure was only around 2%

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health care.