The 3 graphs below describe the changes in yearly expenses by local authorities in Someland over a period of 20 years.

The pie graphs show the data of governments spending their funds yearly in different fields like Education, Health and Human resources, Environment

services

, Transportation and

Other

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over the 20-year period.

Overall

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it is clear that

Higher education takes the highest proportion of local authorities’ expenses,

while

Environmental

services

and

other

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take the smallest percentages. The pie shows the proportion of spending money on Higher education fluctuated from 35% in 1980, rose significantly to 45% in 1990 and dropped slightly to 40% in 2000. In the meantime, K-12 started at 25% in 1980 and decreased gradually yearly to 18% in 2000. From the figures, the government only spent 4% on Environmental

services

in 1980, and the percentage of the funds increased sharply every year and reached 9% in 2000. Opposite to Environment

services

, the proportion of spending money on Other was higher from the beginning at 6% in 1980

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and fell rapidly to 1% in 2000.