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Who's Buying? This data oompares the adjusted U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey expenditure shares wth expenditure shares from Canada, the inited Kingdom, and Japan. The people of these four industrialized nations spend their budgets dferendy The United States had the highest shares of housing and health care expenditures in 2009, compared with the other three countries Japan's share of food expenditures was the highest among the four oountries and was even larger than Japan's share of housing Canada had the highest alothing and transportation expenditure shares and shares of outaf pooket heaith care expenditures were the lowest in the inited Kinddom how do u.s. expenditures compare with those of other countries? ill.d food housing clothing health care education United States Canada • United Kingdom Japan /////////////I//II/I//////// U.S. ANNUAL EXPENDITURES 2008-2010 /////////////II///I//1 U.S. ANNUAL EXPENDITURES BY AGE 20,000 18,000 food 16,000 housing 14,000 transportation 12,000 health care 10,000 clothing 8,000 education 6,000 entertainment 4.000 alcohol / tobacco 2,000 other 0% 20% 40% 2008 2009 2010 - under 25 years old 65 years old and over / Food / Japan's consumers spent 218 percent of their total expenditures on food in 2009. Of total spending on food in Japan 21.4 percent was for food outside the home The United Kingdom had the second-highest share: 19.9 percent of total expenditures on food. Canada, with 15.3 percent. and the United States. with 14.6 percent had the lowest food expenditure shares among the countries studied. Of the 14.6 percent of total communication. they do not include expenditures allocated to food expenditures in the United States, 41 1 percent was spent outside the home. Although the United States were excluded from the housing totals. had a higher percentage of expenditures for food away from home compared with Japan. the United States had a lower total food expenditure share. Canada had the lowest housing share. 21.4 percent. Housing was the largest expenditure lowest. 9.8 percent This smaller share is due indirectly through nationalized health care component in all countries except Japan. For purposes of comparability. the housing totals for the United States. the United Kingdom. and Canada were adjusted to exclude mortgage interest and mortgage principal payments because, although housing totals for Japan include rent, utilities, and and 15.2 percent, respectively. Japan had the Kingdom, and Japan medical costs are paid to low expenditures for automobile purchases options, and medical costs paid indirectly are and other nonpublic transportation Despite having the lowest total transportation share. Japan's share of spending on public transportation was twice that of the United not included in out-of-pocket health care expenditures. / Clothing / Canada had the highest share of share. 23 8 pescent was for Dansportation clothing expenditures in 2009 among the transportation and 22 percent was for the purchase of automobiles. In comparison, of the 17.5-percent transportation share in the United States, 6.3 percent was for public transportation and 34.9 percent was for the purchase of automobiles. countries examined, with 6 percent of its total expenditures spent on clothing The United Kingdom had the second-highest clothing share. 5.5 percent. Japan had a dothing share of 4.2 percent. and the United States had the smallest share. 4 percent. mortgage payments, on which no data are collected. Property taxes / Housing / The United States had the highest housing expenditure share. 26.3 percent of total expenditures in 2009. The United Kingdom and Japan followed, with 24.1 percent and 21.6 percent. respectively / Transportation / Canada had the largest transportation share of all four countries. 20.6 percent. Canadians pay higher gas prices than Americans, and the share of automobile expenditures was higher in Canada than in the United States (8.3 percent. compared with 6.1 percent). The United States and the United Kingdom had the next-highest transportation shares. 17.5 / Health care/ The United States had the highest out-of-pocket health care share. 7.2 percent in 2009. followed by Japan, at 4.3 percent. Canada. with 4.2 percent, and the United Kingdom. at 1.4 percent. The health care share for the United States may be higher, because in Canada, the United ON THE BASIS OF DATA FROM THE CONSUMER EXPENDITURE SURVEY (CE) transportation entertainment alcohol/tobacco -other
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