The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in Japan and Malaysia in the year 2010.

The pie charts demonstrate the comparisons in the mean of family expenses for five different purposes, including housing, transport, food, health care, and other goods and services, in two different Asia countries (Japan and

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, housing accounted for the massive majority of the costs in

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,

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Japanese households spent mostly on other goods and services. Interestingly, families in both regions expensed the least for medical purposes. It can be clearly seen from the figures, that other goods and services made up the largest percentage (29%)

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Japanese yearly expenditures.

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, housing stood at the first place of annual cost with 34% in

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, spending on food occupied the second rank in both Japan and

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(24% and 27%, respectively). Unexpectedly, health care made up the lowest proportion of yearly family costs in both areas, even if the percentage of

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in Japan, at 6%, was twofold higher, compared with 3% in

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