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

The chart illustrates how the member of a family in the country spent their revenue per week in 1968 and in 2018.

Overall

,

it is clear that

food was the most significant necessity for people to survive in 1968,

while

it was important for individuals to gain entertainment in 2018. At the beginning of the period, people spent a lot of money on their food, which is around 35%;

however

, it remained approximately half of the rate after 50 years.

Moreover

, the fuel and power were consistently the lowest at 6% and 4% in 1968 and 2018 respectively.

In addition

, housing and clothing and

footware

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footwear

were at the same rate at 10% and the income which was bought on household goods stayed the same at 8% during the period.

Conversely

, leisure, food and housing were over 15% of weekly spending in 2018,

whereas

there

was

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only 14% and 4% for transportation and personal goods.