The chart below gives information about how families in one country spenttheir weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart illustrates how the weekly household budget was allocated in a specific nation in the years 1968 and 2018.

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, it is apparent that the money spent on food each week used to account for the largest proportion in 1968,

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, it was overtaken by average weekly spending on entertainment in 2018.

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, the percentage of expenditure on fuel and energy always ranked the lowest in the period shown. Between 1968 and 2018, a plunge could clearly be seen in the amount of money distributed to food, where the figure dramatically shrank by approximately 20% over 50 years.

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, the expenditure on clothes and shoes and personal commodities

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decreased, but much less significant than that of food ( from 10% in 1968 to 5% in 2018 of the total weekly budget and from about 8% to 4% respectively)

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, the spending on houses and transportation every week saw an increment in

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period, with the former roughly twice as high as it used to be (around 20%) and the latter close to 15% in 2018. More striking is that the amount of weekly budget spent on leisure grew remarkably, from less than 10% in 1968 to more than 20% in 2018. The only exception without growth or decline was the figure for domestic merchandise, which maintained stable at around 8% in those two years.