The line graph illustrates the proportion of total expenditure in a certain European country between 1960 and 2000.

The chart presents 5 various spending categories in an exact European country during a period of 40

years

.

Overall

, it is obvious that more types of expenditure (food, leisure, clothing, fuel/energy) had a downward trend,

whereas

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transport was the only figure that increased sharply over the

years

. At the

begining

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beginning

of the period, a significant decrease could be seen in

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food: it shrank from 34% in 1960 to below 14% in 2000.

Similarly

, there was a steady

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in leisure and clothing, starting at 20% and 10% individually and falling

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lowest point (10% and 5%)

at the end

of the year. Moving on to fuel/energy, there was the lowest proportion throughout the

years

which started from over 6% to almost 3%. In comparison, transport experienced a gradual growth during the

years

. In 1960 its proportion was 10% and its peak was nearly 15% in 2000.