The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting main features, and make comparison where relevant.

The pie chart describes the differences between medium spending of

Japanese

Use synonyms

and

Malaysian

Use synonyms

families by five major categories which are Housing, Transport, Food, Health care and Other goods and services.

Overall

Linking Words

, most

Malaysian

Use synonyms

expenses were on Housing,

while

Linking Words

the most money used by the

Japanese

Use synonyms

was for other goods and services, at 29%. Meanwhile, both countries had less money allocated to Health care which was at 3% and 6%.

Further

Linking Words

details perspective, housing accounted for 21% of total

Japanese

Use synonyms

household spending,

whereas

Linking Words

the

Malaysian

Use synonyms

domestic housing spending percentage made up a significantly higher fraction of 13%. In terms of transport, the proportion spent by Malaysians was 10%,

while

Linking Words

the figure for the

Japanese

Use synonyms

was double in comparison. The percentage of food which was expensed by the Malaysians was 27%.

This

Linking Words

was a little over the

Japanese

Use synonyms

's food expense by 3%. As above mentioned, in comparison with health care spending from

Japanese

Use synonyms

households

Add a comma

households,

show examples

it accounted for 6%, which was 3% more than that of Malaysians. The

last

Linking Words

category was other goods and services, the

Japanese

Use synonyms

family spent 29% of their total expense,

while

Linking Words

the

Malaysian

Use synonyms

was just a little below, at 26%.