The line graph shows the percentage of spending in a European country from 1960 to 2000.

The line graph illustrates how money is spent on five different things (

food

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,

leisure

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,clothing,transport,fuel/energy) measured in percentage in Europe, in an unknown country in 2005.

Overall

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, as can be seen on the graph, the most money was spent on

food

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compared to others. In 1960, the cost of

food

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was around 35 per

cent

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,

while

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the cost of

leisure

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was just under 20 per

cent

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. Moving forward to the next two decades, both of them suffered a decrease reaching 25 per

cent

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food

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and approximately 17 per

cent

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leisure

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, but

at the end

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of the period, in 2000 both of them were under 15 per

cent

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. Transport is the only one who had a gradual increase from 1960 (under 10 per

cent

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) to slightly over 15 per

cent

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in 2000, which goes over

food

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and

leisure

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,

while

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fuel and clothing did not suffer too many changes,

at the end

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of the period 2000, both of them were under 10 per

cent

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, being the lowest point on the graph.