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

The bar chart presents the average expenditures of households in a nation on a weekly basis in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, ‘food’ constituted the most considerable proportion in 1968, whilst the highest spending in 2018 was overtaken by ‘leisure’.

In addition

, ‘fuel and power’ was the category on which these families spent their money the least. In 1968, the category of ‘food’ made up 35% of household weekly expenses before dropping dramatically to just above 15% five decades later.

This

figure was

subsequently

followed by ‘housing’ and ‘clothing and footwear’ in which both accounted for 10% despite differences in 2018, where ‘housing’ increased steeply to nearly twice as much as the initial number and ‘clothing and footwear’ halved to 5%.

Furthermore

, the money spent on ‘leisure’ was around 9% and surged to above 20%. In terms of the remaining categories, ‘household goods’, ‘personal goods’, and ‘transport’, they all amounted to approximately 8% in 1968. They experienced variations in 2018 as ‘household necessities’ remained the same, ‘personal necessities’ halved to around 4%, and ‘transport’ rose by twice to about 14%.

Additionally

, ‘fuel and power’, with the smallest allocation at approximately 6%, declined slightly to roughly 4%.