The line graph shows the percentage of spending in a European country from 1960 to 2000.

The given line chart compares data about the proportion of 5 various sections namely, food, leisure, clothing, transport, and energy that inhabitants of one European country spent their money on between 1960 and 2000.

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, it was important that the investment budget in all sectors other than leisure was reduced over the period of 4 decades.

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the diagram, in the beginning, food, the main item that people spent a great deal of money on in 1960, hit roughly 32%;

then

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it declined significantly to nearly 13% in 2000.

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, clothing scored 20% in 1960;

thereafter

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, it decreased moderately to approximately the same number as food in 2000. The graph demonstrates that leisure had a reverse trend as Other owing to the fact that it recorded just under 10% the first time and after that, it leapt somewhat to 15% in 2000.

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transport reached 10% in 1960;

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it dropped slightly to 5%.

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, Energy, the costless item, touched 5% at the start;

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it dipped fractionally to just over zero in 2000.