The charts below show the performance of spending on roads and transport in four countries from 1990 to 2005. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information on the proportion of government expenditures on roadways and transportation in America and three European countries between 1990 and 2005.

Overall

, the USA displays an increasing trend of expenses throughout the period. Meanwhile, among the three European countries, Portugal has the most significant downward usage of funding,

while

Italy and the UK fluctuate consecutively every 5

years

. Starting with the European region, the authorities of Portugal allotted the highest funding for road transport at the beginning of 1990, under 30%. The same as Italy at around 23%, but the former decreased to approximately 24% in 1995,

while

, Italia went down to 20%, respectively. After five

years

(2000), the Portuguese government, still fell to 22%,

however

, Italy went up less than 25%.

Also

, by 2005, the former reached 20%, and the latter shifted downward to under 20%.

Furthermore

, the remaining one, the United Kingdom,

also

had low funding in 1990 with just 10%

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and was reduced to 10% in 1995. But, after five

years

(2000), it increased again to 13%,

thus

, in its final year (2005) fell again to as low as 8%.

Finally

, in the USA, the same with the UK, where the government provided low funding of more than 12% in 1990, but decreased again to 10%, after 5

years

.

However

, in 2000, it went up to more than 10% and continuously rose up to 15% in 2005.