The chart below gives information about how families on one country spent their weekly income 1968 and in 2018

The bar chart illustrates data about average weekly expenditures on 8 various usages of families from their salaries in a certain country in 1968 and 2018. It is obvious that individuals tend to spend more money on food compared with other usages in 1968, which was at 35%,

whereas

,

this

number fell significantly to about 17% after four decades.

Thus

, people's consumption of household

goods

which were afforded by weekly income remained constant for 40 years at about 8%. Now, focus on the details, the expenditure on housing, transport, and free time increased noticeably more than before,

while

the figures which represent grocery, electricity, and personal

goods

increased. People's usage of transport doubled to roughly 14% from 7%.

On the contrary

, the percentage of personal

goods

and clothing and footwear usage decreased 2 times less to 4%.

Moreover

, fuel and power usage declined slightly,

while

leisure expenditure jumped more than two times from 9% to 22%.

To sum up

, it is obvious that the spending on various factors changed considerably except for household

goods

.