The chart below shows the proportion of people's total spending in a particular European country was spent on different commodities and services in 1958 and in 2008.
The pie charts illustrate the percentage of
citizen
in European Fix the agreement mistake
citizens
country
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countries
spend
on different commodities and services between 1958 and 2008. Units are measured in Wrong verb form
spent
percent
.
In general, it can be observed that the proportion of people's total spending on Change the spelling
per cent
food
in 1958 was the highest while
that of spending on housing was the highest in 2008. It is also
evident that while
spending on food
, clothing, and entertainment witnessed a decrease, a reverse pattern could be observed in the figures for the other categories.
In 1958, the percentage of residents spending on food
was the highest at 32%. The figures for housing, clothing and entertainment were lower, at 22%. 18% and 13%, respectively, compared to 8% for travel and transport. Luxury goods, however
, accounted for the lowest value, at only 7%.
In 2008, the proportion of the citizen's budget on food
experienced a notable fall to just 12%, whereas
there was a rise of precisely 32% in the data on housing. Additionally
, 17% of the total money was paid for luxury goods as well as
travel and transportation. The period from 1958 to 2008 saw a significant decrease in the expenditure on clothing from 18% to only 16%, and this
way was higher than the final figure for entertainment, at 6% by 2008.Submitted by [email protected] on
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "decrease" was used 2 times.
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