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

The bar chart illustrates, how much weekly salary expenditure by families in a country in two different years.

Overall

, in 2018 a significant amount of money was used by people for food, housing, transport and leisure. In general, expenses for meals rose more sharply than any other category in both years.

According to

the graph, 35% of their seven days earned income cost on food in 1968 and it fell by more than half in 2018.

Moreover

, less than 10% used up on fuel and power and personal goods in 2018.

Furthermore

, housing expenses had been rosed less than half in 2018

while

in 1968 the figure was 10%. Expended for clothing and footwear had fallen exactly half in 2018 when compared with 1968 and

also

in both years the expenses remained equal for household goods, it was approximately 8%.

Although

1968 used up more income on food, the other criteria show a downward trend when contrasted with 2018.