The given pie charts illustrate the average spending on housing, transport, food, health care and other goods and services in Japan and Malaysia in 2010.

The two pie charts represent the spending of the Japanese and Malaysian population in 2010, categorised into five groups. Generally speaking, Japanese people spent the most on goods and services

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Malaysians experienced the highest spending on housing costs.

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, both countries had the least expenses in healthcare expenses. In Japan, people spend most of their funding on goods and services, with it being a staggering 29% of their total expenses.

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was followed by food, housing and transport expenditure accounting for 24%, 21% and 20% respectively. Healthcare costs were only a small fraction at just 6%. The distribution of spending in Malaysia slightly varied with the highest funding spent on housing payments at 34%, followed by food at 27%, other goods and services at 26% and transport being 10%. Similar to Japan, healthcare fees accounted for the least amount, at only 3%.