What We Spend Money On
I love stuff like this.

Discretionary spending by country, organized geographically. Click on the different subcategories across the top.

Short version: Americans spend more than everyone on everything.

-d

p.s.
curiositykt points out that the graph would be better if it had more per capita data. That's a good point. The per capita colors they use are largely useless. It would be really interesting to compare the spending on clothes in Greece or recreation in Japan to ourselves per capita! The existing interactive graph is useful because it shows "where the money is" and where it goes in the global and national economies. It is useful for pointing out how much of each sector of the world's discretionary economy each nation is responsible for, but not necessarily a good measure of our individual (i.e., per-capita) habits and priorities.