Overall, the proportion of money allocated to both food items and particularly to other goods rose in 2008. While there was a relatively small difference between the proportion of spending on food in 1998 and 2008, as for other goods, this discrepancy was more noticeable.
Looking first of all at the proportion of money spent on food products, it was 15% for french people in 1998, a number which rose to whopping 40% in 2008. Germans on the other hand, spent a quarter of their money buying food in 1998 but there was a 5 percentage points rise after a decade. Finally, english people directed 10% of their earnings to food in 1998 and 15% in 2008.
Regarding the average spending on other goods, it made up around 8% of total expenditure in France in 1998, a figure which then saw a considerable increase to 40%. Similarly, there was a growth to the share of money allocated to other products by German people from 17% in 1998 to just under 24 in 2008. People in England, on the other hand, spared just 7% of their income to these products in 1998, as opposed to 2008 when they spent 35%.