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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given bar chart compares data about the percentage of money that 4 various countries spent on 5 different items in 2009.

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, it was crucial that housing was the most important factor

instead

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of health care in 2009.

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the diagram, Housing, the most essential element, in the

USA

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hit just over 25%;

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the

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,

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, and

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respectively reached nearly 24, 23, and 21 per cent. The second part that touched the most portion was Food, which scored the highest fraction in

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by roughly 24%;

thereafter

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, the

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,

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, and the

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recorded one-fifth, 15% ,and almost 14%. Later for Transportation

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was the main country owing to the fact that it reported the same proportion as its housing after that, the

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, the

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, and

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scored approximately 17%, 15%, and 10%. The graph demonstrates that clothing reached nearly the same portion for

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, the

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, and

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by roughly 5%; and the

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hit the minimum percentage at approximately 3%;

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, for health care, the

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reported about 7%;

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and

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touched the same portion at just under 5% and the

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hit the tiny fraction.