The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in a country in 1950 and 2010.

The pie charts compare the mean household

spendings

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spending

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in a nation by six major categories in 1950 and 2010.

Overall

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, lodgings and food were the two most spent upon categories, which covered more than half of both years' percentage of expenditure. The percentage spent on housing in 2010 fell significantly

while

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the food section increased.

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, compared to 1950, housing which had 72.1% dropped by 50.1% in 2010.

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, nourishment

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which

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had 11.2% in 1950 became the leading category in 2010 with 34%.

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, others and vehicles which only compiled 4.4% and 3.3% respectively in 1950 had a surprising growth of 10%-15% each. Meanwhile, medical care was the lowest bunch of

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group for both years which only had slight improvement after 60 years from a sorrowful 2.4% to a mere 4.5%.

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, the education field had not seen a huge change, it had experienced a decrease of 0.3%, from 6.6% in 1950 to 6.3% in 2010.