The chart below gives information about how families on one country spent their weekly income 1968 and in 2018
The chart illustrates the proportion of average family weekly expenditure from 1968 to 2018.
Overall
, in 1968, the largest and the smallest sections were responsible for food and fuel and power respectively whilst, in 2018, the most popular weekly spending was occupied by leisure.
Looking into the details, it could be seen that there was a dramatical decrease in food expenditure which dropped from 35% to around 16% at the end
of the period. Likewise
, in 2018, people tend to be less interested to spend their income on clothing and footwear which gradually declined from 10% to 5%.
On the other hand
, leisure experienced a remarkable upward trend from approximately 8% at the initial time and reached the ceiling of about 22% in 2018. Moreover
, there was a considerable increase in housing spending which could be ranked as the second place in 2018, the percentage of housing spending in a week was 10% in 1968 and rapidly rose to around 17% in the next fifty years ago.Submitted by jeanbabyfrog on
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