The line graph shows the average yearly UK consumer expenditure in three categories between 2000 and 2020.
Overall, mean annual spending on beauty products in the UK grew steadily between 2005 and 2020 while the consumption of books and newspapers declined similarly during the same period. Spending on groceries remained relatively stable from 2000 to 2010 and declined marginally till 2020.
Between 2005 and 2020, average annual consumption of beauty products in the UK rose from around 75 pound to over 200 pounds. During the same period, the amount spent by British consumers on books and newspapers first declined slowly till 2015 to around 70 pounds and then shrunk sharply to just under 25 pounds.
Notably, there was almost no change in any of the three categories between 2000 and 2005. The average annual spending of UK consumers on groceries shrunk slowly from 2010 to 2020 from just over 150 pounds to around 130 pounds.