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

The given bar chart illustrates how much American, Canadian, Japanese spent on five major categories, namely food, transportation, housing, heathy care and clothing in the year 2009 overall, it is clear that, the percentage of people in four countries spending more money on housing, food and transportation than other categories As can be seen from the chart that, the US expenditure on housing was the highest with just over 25% and substantially higher than Japan's expenditure, about 22%. However, the proportion of consumer spending on Food in the US was much lower than the figure for Japan, at approximately 30%. In addition, the US and Japan had the lowest percentage of consumer expenditure on Clothing, at only nearly 5%. Regarding the expenditures in Canada and the UK, the figure for Housing in the UK stood at nearly 25%, compared with only 21% for Canada. Conversely, the percentage of consumer spending on Transportation and Health care in Canada was much higher, with 20% and nearly 5% respectively. In addition, the UK and Canada spent the lowest amount of money on Clothing, at just over 5%.