IELTS writing task 1 The chart depicts the percentage of expenditure on three categories such as Food/Drinks/Tobacco, Clothing/Footwear and Leisure/Education in five different countries, in 2002. Overall, it can be seen that most of the costs were on Food/Drinks/Tobacco, whereas Clothing/Footwear and Leisure/Education accounted just for small percentages. To begin with, in 2002, Turkey was the country with the highest proportion of expenditure on the first category of items, standing at 32.14%, followed by Ireland with 28.91% of spending. Even though Food/Drinks/Tobacco made up in Spain, Italy and Sweden a smaller proportion between 19% and 15%, it was still the biggest percentage of expenditure for these three countries. For the second category, regarding Clothing/Footwear, Italy made up the highest proportion of 9%, whilst Turkey, Spain, Ireland and Sweden accounted all for a similar percentage of 6.63%, 6.53%, 6.40% and 5.40% respectively. Leisure/Education group was the category with the least percentages of consumer expenditure. For these items Turkey accounted with the highest proportion of 4.35%, followed by Sweden (3.22%) and Italy (3.20%). Ireland and Spain amounted just to 2.21% and 1.98% being at the bottom of the chart for the third category.