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

The bar chart illustrates how much money is consumed for five important aspects

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life in four different countries in the year 2009.

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, we can see that house expenses had the highest percentage,

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on the other hand

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, health care had the lowest.

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the United States was the country with

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materials.

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the data given, for food, Canada and the USA had proportions under 15%, but the number increased to 20% for the United Kingdom and even more for Japan, with around 27%. As for transportation, America had about 17%, but the rate rose by 3% for the Canadians;

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, unfortunately, it dropped to 15% for the British, and for the Japanese, it was 10%.

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, the fourth type was medical services and wellness; all of the nations showed a ratio under 10%, which was caused

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the cost

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not enough. For clothing, Americans had 4%,

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it was near 7% for Canada; as for the UK and Japan, they had 6% and 4%, respectively.