The bar chart below shows of expeditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.

The bar chart below shows of expeditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009.
The bar graph illustrates the percentage of spending in five important sections namely food, housing, transportation,
health
care
, and clothing in four countries in
the
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2009.
Overall
it can be seen that food and housing were the significant percentage of spending
whereas
, healthcare and clothing were the lowest proportion of expending. On the one hand, housing was the biggest
number
of
spent
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in all countries and the US was the highest
number
of spending around 26%
while
, in
food
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sector was the least preferred approximately 14%.
In addition
to that Japan
almost
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the same
number of
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expenditure in both categories which was between 22%- 23%.
On the other hand
, the least spent
number
were in
the
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health
care
and clothing. US was almost 6% in
health
care
while
,
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in clothing was the least one.
Also
,
United
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Kingdom
was
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around 5% of spending
whereas
, in
health
care
declined to
the
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3%.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "whereas, while".
Vocabulary: Replace the words health, care, number with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 2 times.

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