The table offers us some detailed figures about the percentage of national consumer expenditure in 2002 in five different European countries. As a whole, the money spent on the item Food/Drinks/Tobacco is the highest one while the percentage of consuming on Leisure/Education ranks last in all five countries observed.
In terms of food spending, people in Turkey distribute 32.14 percent of their total income to purchase food, drinks and tobacco, ranking first in the five nations, followed by Ireland (28.91%) and then Spain (18.80%), which is almost twice as much as that in Italy. However, for Italy, in spite of low spending on Food/Drinks/Tobacco, the proportion of expenditure on clothing is the largest compared to its counterpart nations, which reaches up to 9.00 percent, while the figures of other four nations are all below 7.00%, with 6.63%(Turkey), 6.51%(Spain), 6.43%(Ireland), 5.40%(Sweden), respectively.
As for the leisure and education part, Turkey took the lead in 2002, its people spending 4.35 percent of wealth on this item. At the same time, it cost the Spanish only 1.98% of money to enjoy leisure and education, which is the lowest in these five countries.