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The table illustrates how much consumers in four different countries spent on three kinds of products in the year 2008.

Overall, the Chinese spent the most money on automobiles and computers compared to all other nations surveyed, while the Vietnamese spent the least. ^TAMoreover, spending on automobiles comprised the largest proportion of the total budgets of people in all nations, whereas the expenditure on books was the opposite.

Looking first at cars, about 30% of the budget was allocated to automobiles in China, which was nearly twice as much as in Vietnam, where the proportion was approximately 16%. The percentage of expenses spent on cars in Japan was higher than that in Thailand, making up about 19% for Japan and about 17% for Thailand.^CC

Turning to computers, the Chinese spent more than 16% in computers^LR, which was three times as much as the Japanese and Vietnamese, who spent 5.5% and 5.4%, respectively, on these products. Thais spent more money on computers than the Japanese and the Vietnamese spent, accounting for roughly 6%.^CC

Books comprised the lowest percentage of the total spending in all nations, and this figure was consistently less than 3.3%. Vietnamese people spent the highest proportion of their budget on books, at 3.22% compared to other nations while Japanese people spent the least on these items, at roughly 2%.