The charts below show the proportion of people's spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1958 and in 2008.

The given pie charts compare the expenditure of European citizens on five different goods over a two-year period.

Overall

, it is noticeable that housed appliances, luxurious products, and food occupied an upward trend.

However

, an opposite trend is observed in clothes and transportation, which experienced a decline in consumed numbers. Interestingly, the percentage of clothing is comparable to those of housing in different years

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. Focusing on, housing, lavish, and clothing consumption, the figure in clothing was one-tenth higher than housing expended (22%) in 1958.

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, the housing expended overtook those of clothing, which dramatically dropped to 12%.

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luxurious products significantly grew from 7% to 17% in 2008. Turning to the remaining amenities, in 2009, the figures for entertainment, food,

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goods were 18%, 8% ,

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%, respectively.

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the proportion of food paid witnessed an increasing trend, there was a substantial lessening of others. To be more precise, the

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number rose

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% to

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17%,

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the 2%,

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% of travelling and entertaining products dropped respectively in 2008.