The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending by local authorities in Someland in 1980, 1990 and 2000.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts show how much local authorities spent on a range of services in Someland in three separate years: 1980, 1990 and 2000.

Overall

,

it is clear that

higher

education

constituted the largest cost to local authorities, and

while

spending on transportation and environmental services increased, there were corresponding drops in

expenditure

on health and human resources and K-12

education

. In all three years, the greatest

expenditure

was on

education

.

However

,

while

K-12

education

saw a fall from 25% in 1980 to only 18% of spending in 2000, higher

education

remained the largest proportion, reaching 45% of total spending in 1990 and ending at 40% in 2000. The

expenditure

on health and human resources had increased to 20% by 1990 before decreasing to only 10% by the end of the period.

In contrast

, the share of transportation saw an opposite trend.

This

cost decreased to only 6% of total

expenditure

in 1990 but rose dramatically in 2000 when it represented 22% of the total budget.

Similarly

, the cost of environmental services saw a rising trend, growing from only 4% to 9% by 2000.