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 bar chart illustrates the amount of money spent

for

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on

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food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in the USA, Canada, the UK and Japan in 2009.

Overall

, it can be seen that

percentage

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the percentage

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of food increased during the

year

.

While

the other categories show

flutuated

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fluctuated

and decreased over the time period.

To begin

, the proportion of food

initially

was around 14% and

then

grew to 23%.

On the other hand

, the percentage of housing fluctuated during the

year

reached a peak of approximately 26% and

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to

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22%. In detail, the expenditure for transportation was over 15% at the

beggining

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beginning

of the

year

and

then

climbed to exactly 20%

then

dropped to 10%.

Furthermore

, the amount of money spent

for

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health care and clothing was about 7% and 4% respectively. Clothing

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a peak of 6%

at

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in

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the middle of the

year

. Both

ends

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with the same percentage

under

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of under

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4% by 2009.