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The charts below give information about the electricity generation in two countries in 2009.

The charts below give information about the electricity generation in two countries in 2009.
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The pie charts compare five categories of
household
 expenditure in the
UK
 and New
Zealand
 in the years 1980 and 2008. It is noticeable that the proportion of spending on food and drink fell in
both
 countries over the
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while
 spending on utility bills rose.
Also
,
UK
 residents spent a significantly larger percentage of their
household
 budgets on leisure than their New
Zealand
 counterparts. In 1980, 29% of
an
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 average New
Zealand
household
 budget went on food and drink,
while
 the equivalent figure for a
UK
 home was 23%. By 2008, expenditure on food and drink had fallen by 4% in New
Zealand
, and by a full 10% in the
UK
.
By contrast
,
both
 countries saw an increase in expenditure on utility bills for the average home, from 27% to 31% in New
Zealand
 and from 26% to 28% in the
UK
. Leisure activities accounted for the highest proportion of
UK
household
 spending in
both
 years, but only the third highest proportion in New
Zealand
. In fact, in 2008, New Zealanders spent only half as much in relative terms on recreation (17%) as
UK
 residents (34%). In
both
 countries, transport costs and other costs took roughly 15% and 10% of
household
 budgets respectively.
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