Publication - Consumer spending in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan - MARCH 06, 2017
In 2014, U.S. consumers spent 18.7 percent of their total spending on transportation, which was nearly twice as much as Japanese consumers. U.S. consumers spent 8.8 percent on out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures, which was more than 5 times higher than the percentage for consumers in the United Kingdom.