The line chart illustrates how the distribution of total expenses in a certain European nation varied across five different categories from 1960 to 2000.
Overall, it is obvious that the spending on leisure experienced a significant increase during the 40-year period, the opposite was true for the remaining sectors.
Additionally, despite witnessing the downward, the figure for food still held the highest position until before the year 2000.
A majority of this European country’s expenditure from 1960 until 1990s was spent on food. Nevertheless, the payment on food witnessed a remarkable drop, from approximately 33% in 1960 to roughly 13% in 2000 and ranked the second position after the volume of spending on leisure in the year 2000. Simultaneously, the total expenditure on clothing, transport and energy in this country had the same tendency as the figure for food. Specifically, about 20% of total payments paid for clothing, which dropped sharply by 7% in 2000. Meanwhile, the figure for transport had a decline of half from about 10% in 1960 to around 5% in 2000. During the period from 1960 to 2000, energy received the lowest payment of this nation among the five sectors, which decreased from 5% to only 1%, respectively.
Conversely, there was a noticeable growth in the spending on leisure during the 40-year period. Particularly, leisure ranked the fourth place in the percentage of total at just under 10% in 1960 and then surpassed the figures for transport and clothing to place the third and second position, respectively, between 1960s and early 1990s. It is noteworthy that the expense on leisure continued to rise slightly and overtook the figure for food and ranked the highest of 15% in 2000.