The bar charts illustrate the percentage of spending on food and other items by residents in France , Germany and England in two separate years :1998 and 2008.
Overall , it is obvious that expenditure on both food and non-food products witnessed upward trends in all the countries surveyed . Notably, the amount of money spent on food and other goods in France recorded the most significant rise during the period shown.
Examining the specifics , in 1998, the spending on food by people in Germany accounted for 25% , making it the highest figure at that time , followed by France and England , at 15% and 10% , respectively . After a decade , there was a considerable increase in the figure for France to 40% in 2008 while a growth of 5% was seen in the percentage for Germany and England, reaching 30% and 15% for each.
Regarding other products, in 1998, just under 10% of the total money that the French spent on other items , nearly the same as the figure for England and over two times lower compared to the proportion for Germany. In the final year, the figure for France and England rose significantly , increasing by approximately 30% and 25% , respectively. Additionally , there was a moderate growth in the expenditure on non-food items in Germany to roughly 25% in 2008.