The chart gives information about marriage and children in a selection countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the

expenditures

of different fields for households in the selected nations in 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, people spent the most on food and least on

fuel

and power in 1968

whereas

leisure accounted for a much larger percentage than

fuel

and personal

goods

wtih

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with

the least

share

in 2018. Housing, transport and leisure had a larger

share

in 1968 than

2018

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. Starting with the

expenditures

which increased for the five decades, the increase in the

share

of leisure is the most significant as it rose from less than 10% to approximately 23%, making it the most major spending area.

Also

, the

expenditures

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of

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housing almost doubled from 10% to just below 20%.

Similarly

, transport experienced a slight increase from around 8% to below 15%. Turning to the graph with less

spendings

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, the

expenditures

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of

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food, which

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the largest in 1968, dropped severely from 35% to about 17% in 2018. The percentage of clothing and

fooware

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footwear

and personal

goods

decreased from about 6% to about 4% and from about 8% to less than 5% , respectively. There is

also

a reduction in the

share

of

fuel

with below 5% from about 6%. These declining trends make

fuel

,power and personal

goods

the least common areas for people to spend in 2018.

In contrast

, household

goods

are the only category whose

share

remained unchanged at below 10% for the examined period of time.