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

The bar chart illustrates the average weekly income spent by families in one specific nation in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, it can be clearly seen that there are most changes in terms of average weekly income which food showed a significant decrease,

while

leisure, housing, and transport increased sharply in 2018.

In addition

, household goods remained stable. Starting from the decreasing trend, food was the highest decrease in weekly income which was spending by families from 35% in 1968 to almost 17% in 2018,

whereas

the same trends were indicated by fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal goods between under 10% and below 5% during both years. Moving to the increasing trend, in 1968, three categories were leisure, housing, and transport which accounted for 9%, 10%, and 8% respectively, and they experienced a significant rise becoming double in 2018.

Moreover

, household goods stated the same trend at 7% in both years.