Mexicans spend considerably more on eating—nearly 29 percent of their income. International data on food expenditures show that families in poorer countries usually spend higher fractions of their income on food, although in absolute numbers average Mexicans spend half of what Americans do, and a third of what Hong Kong residents pay.32 Finally, Americans spend considerably more on healing themselves, about 20 percent of their income—ten times greater as a percentage than what Britons spend, and four times greater than what Germans spend.33
