The charts below show 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 charts below show the proportion of people’s total spending in a particular European country was spent on different commodities and services in 1958 and in 2008.
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The pie charts compare the proportions of
people
's total spending in a particular
European
country
on different commodities and services from 1958 to 2008.
Overall
,
it is clear that
the proportions of
people
's spending on housing, travelling, and luxury goods in a particular
European
country
increased
while
those figures for food, clothing, and entertainment decreased over the period shown. Remarkably,
people
spent by far the most money on housing. Looking at the information in more detail, we can see that in 1958,
people
living in a particular
European
country
allocated a majority of their money for food, with 30% of the total, housing was close second to it, with about a quarter of the total ( 22%), followed by clothing and entertainment, with 18% and 13%, respectively, next was travelling and luxury goods, with 8% and 7%, respectively.
At the end
of the period, after growing to 32% of the total, the figure for
people
’s housing spending in a particular
European
country
led to the top, the second highest percentage was travelling and luxury goods, which was the same, at 17%,
subsequently
, food and entertainment were 16% and 12%, respectively.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • expenditure
  • commodities
  • services
  • necessities
  • luxury goods
  • trends
  • significant changes
  • expenditure
  • housing and utilities
  • summarize
  • highlight
  • primary trends
  • fifty-year period
  • economic growth
  • technological advancements
  • societal values
  • analyze
  • observe
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