The bar chart provides information about how families in a country spent weekly income in both 1968 and in 2018.

The bar chart details the average weekly spending for families in a given country in 1968 and 2018. Looking from an

overall

perspective, it is readily apparent that

while

spending for

food

, fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal

goods

declined, the inverse was true for the remaining categories, with only household

goods

unchanged.

Although

spending on

food

was by far the most common in 1968, by 2018 leisure occupied most of the family budget, followed closely by housing. In 1968, families spent, on average 35% of their weekly income on

food

, significantly outstripping other budgetary concerns, each of which represented between 5% and 10%. Among these, fuel and power were the lowest at 6%. By 2018, spending patterns diverged more widely.

Food

represented a still significant 17% of the budget, trailing housing at 19% (a 9%

overall

rise) and leisure at 22% (a 13% increase). Transport

also

displayed a notable growth of 14%. Fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal

goods

fell to 4%, 5%, and 4%, respectively. Household

goods

were the only expense to remain fixed, at 7%.