The graph below gives information about the U.S. government's spending on research between 1980 and 2008.

The line graph illustrates the expenditures in billions of

dollars

by the American ministry for studies purposes in different fields of life like

health

, space energy, general science, and

others

from 1980 to 2008.

Overall

, a huge amount was spent on

health

and its line graph showed an upward trend.

Moreover

, the funds were allocated to general science throughout the period.

To begin

with, at the start of the year 1980, approximately 8

billion

dollars

were used for

health

purposes. It rose to about the maximum of 22

billion

dollars

in 2004

then

it declined.

Whereas

, in the case of general science, there were little fluctuations in spending from 1980 to 2000 from 2.5 to a maximum of 5

billion

dollars

.

Furthermore

, it showed constant spending up to 2008.

In addition

to

this

, space, energy and

others

showed slight variation but at the starting year 1980, the spending on all three was within the range of 5 to 7

billion

dollars

. And fluctuated within it upto 2004. The exceptional case is with the energy and space increased

while

others

decreased.

To conclude

, the spending was increased on the search of

health

sectors

while

the

others

remained the same.