The diagram demonstrates the amount of money that adolescents of a specific country spent on five different goods in 2010 and 2014.
In general, food, smartphones, and toiletries were categories that youngsters allocated more fund on after four years, with the highest proportion went to purchasing meals. In contrast, clothes spendings stayed the same and book spendings declined after the period.
In both years, 18-20-year-olds used most of their budget for buying food, with 37 and 43 million dollars spent on this sector in 2010 and 2014, respectively. Besides, as the digital boom occurred, purchasing power for smartphones witnessed the most significant rise among the surveyed products after four years, from 20 million dollars to 27 million dollars. Similarly, there was a two-million-dollar rise in toiletries spending by this demographic group after the time frame.
On the other hand, the amount of money allocated on clothes and books experienced different trends. Youngsters spent 25 million dollars on wearables in 2010, making it the second favorite category. However, since its data stayed completely unchanged after four years, it lost this position to smartphones. Meanwhile, spendings on books in 2014 was five million dollars, only fifty-percent compared to 2010, and were the least purchased good among the five.