The bar chart illustrates the amount of money spent by 18-20-year-olds in an unspecified country on five products – food, clothes, books, smartphones, and toiletries – in the years 2010 and 2014. The data is measured in millions of dollars. Overall, spending on food, smartphones, and toiletries recorded consistent upward trends over the period, while the reverse was true for books. Of particular note is clothing, which remained unchanged. It is also noteworthy that food represented the highest expenditure in both years.
Regarding rises, the figure for food stood at around $35,000,000 in 2010 before increasing rapidly to nearly $45,000,000 in 2014. The figures for smartphones and toiletries, meanwhile, were almost $20,000,000 at the beginning. These were followed by increases, reaching just over $25 million and exactly 20 million dollars in 2014.
In stark contrast, spending on books exhibited the reverse trend. The figure for this category declined negligibly to $5 million in 2014 from $10 million initially. The only category, which experienced no change was clothes, at $25,000,000 in both years.