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The table below gives information on consumer spending on different items in five different countries in 2002.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparison where is relevant.
Percentage of national consumer expenditure by category - 2002
Countries||Food/Drinks/Tobacco|||Clothing/Footwear||||||Leisure/Education
Ireland |||||||||||28.91% ||||||||||||6.43%|||||||||||||||||||2.21%
Italy||||||||||||||16.36%|||||||||||||9.00%|||||||||||||||||||3.20%
Spain|||||||||||||18.80%|||||||||||||6.51%|||||||||||||||||||1.98%
Sweden||||||||||||15.77%||||||||||||5.4%||||||||||||||||||||3.22%
Turkey||||||||||||||32.14%||||||||||||6.63%||||||||||||||||||4.35%
The table shows a national amount of consumer spending on different categories in five countries in 2002.
To begin with, the expenditure category Food/Drink/Tabacco lead the higher percentages in all five countries, among them, Turkey had the higher percentage of 32.14%, followed by Ireland with 28.91%, also, Italy, Spain and Sweden rates in this category were nearly the half of Turkey with 16.36%, 18.80% and 15.77% respectively.
In contrast, the Leisure/Education category had the lower rates, floating around 1.98% to 4.35% in all five countries. In addition, Turkey again, was leading the rank in this category and Spain was in the last position.
Another point to note is that Italy had the highest rate of 9% in Clothing/Footwear category, also, the rates of the other countries floated around 5.40% to 6.63%.
In conclusion, we can see that all contries had the highest rates of expenditure in Food/Drinks/Tobacco with an overall of 24%. Moreover, It is noted that Leisure and Education had the lowest average of 3%.