The graph below shows the information about money spent in three European countries between 1960 and 2000

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displayed

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the

proportion

of spending from three European Nations from 1960 to 2000. In general, it can be identified that the

proportion

of spending is decreasing for

food

,

leisure

, clothing, and fuel.

On the contrary

, it is the

expense

of transport that keeps increasing

year

after

year

. People used to allocate most of their funds to

food

. It was not until the

year

2000 that transport demanded a greater

proportion

of cost compared to

food

, about 20% of total expenditure. It is

also

indicated that there is a decrease in spending proportions for

leisure

and clothing.

Leisure

used to take almost 20% of total spending and clothing took around 10%.

On the contrary

, the most recent data showed that

expense

on

leisure

only accounts for around 10% of all spending and clothing spending accounts for 5%. Another point worth mentioning is the spending of energy.

Although

it has a similar trend of decrease, the difference is not significant. It only takes around 5% of total expenses in 1960 and after 40 years, the

expense

share only falls to around 3%. In conclusion, spending

proportion

on

food

,

leisure

, clothing, and energy

have

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been decreasing from 1960 to 2000. It was only transportation spending that kept increasing until it became the main source of

expense

in the

year

2000.