The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019.

The charts indicate how ownership of electrical appliances and the time spent on doing housework changed over the century in question, from 1920 to 2019.

Overall

, it can be seen that the percentage of households with different electrical appliances rose mostly from 1920 to 2019,

while

the number of

hours

of housework per

week

declined over the period. Looking at the details, in 1920, the washing machine had the highest use, with 40%, followed by refrigerators and vacuum cleaners, at 30% and 1% respectively. Over the next century, washing machines saw a considerable rise and

then

fluctuated and levelled off, which ended up at 65% of use.

This

was the least amount of use in 2019.

However

, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners witnessed a considerable increase over the period and took the lead in 2019, at 100% utilization. In terms of the number of

hours

of housework per

week

, it declined significantly to fifths throughout the period, from 50

hours

per

week

in 1920 to just 10

hours

per

week

in 2019.