The pie charts below describe average household expenditures by major categories in Japan and Malaysia in 2010.

The pie chart elucidates the percentage of average household expenditure on five categories by two different countries namely; Japan and Malaysia in 2010. Housing, transport, food, health care and other goods and services are the categories for 5 major household categories.

Overall, as evidenced from the projected pie chart, the most of household expenditure was paid out on housing, food and other goods and services, which constitutes more than 70% of total household. The other categories except for the healthcare showed similar expenditure habit in Japan whereas Malaysia showed the most noticeable consumptions on housing. It can be clearly seen that was the least spending on the health care for both countries.

Most of Malaysian household had spent on 34% of their money on housing whilst 21% housing devoured up Japanese monies in the same given period. The expenditure on transport in Japan was at 6% which figure dropped in half for those in Malaysia. The proportion of money collected in food and other goods and services for both countries were about the same. There was a 3% larger portion in Malaysian money consumed on food than Japan whereas the expenditure on other goods and services showed 3% larger in Japanese household.

The percentage of Malaysian money used in health care was half of the Japanese money used on health care.