The bar chart below shows the percentage of government spending on roads and transport in 4 countries in the years 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005.

The given bar chart shows the proportion of government expenditure on road and

transport

in four countries Italy, Portugal,

UK

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the UK

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,

USA

five years between 1990 and 2005.

Overall

, it can be seen that governments in mainland Europe spent far more money on roads and

transport

than those in the

UK

and

USA

. It is

also

clear that the

UK

spent the least amount of money on roads and

transport

in all measured years. In 1990, Portugal spent the most amount of money on roads and

transport

at approximately 27%, followed by Italy at about 22%,

while

the

USA

and

UK

both spent only around 10% of their government budget. In 1995

however

, all countries reduced their road and

transport

spending by between 1-3%. By 2000

while

Portugal continued to reduce its road and

transport

spending down to around 22%, Italy had increased its spending to approximately 23%, overtaking Portugal as the leading spender on

transport

infrastructure in 2000. The

UK

and

USA

had both increased spending in 2000 by about 3%. In 2005, all countries except

USA

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the USA

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further

reduced their spending with Portugal, Italy,

UK

and the

USA

at 20%, 19%, 8% and 15% respectively.