The bar chart illustrates how much money a country spent to fine different types of products between 2010 and 2014, with figures given in millions of dollars.
Overall, food consistently received the largest share of money throughout the period, while books was the least allocated categories. Of a particular note is that smartphones-related contributions rose steadily and significantly, eventually overtaking toiletries products by 2014 while the spending figures for clothes remained relatively stable over the timeframe.
Food products were by far the county’s largest area of widely expenditure throughout the span.in 2010, spending to food stood approximately $38,000,000, far exceeding all other sectors. In 2014, it rose noticeably to around $44,000,000, the highest amount recorded on the chart. Food clearly remained the country’s dominant sector in terms of spending by 18-20-years-olds.
Clothes, smartphones and toiletries occupied a middle position in terms of spending albeit varying patterns across the period. Spending to clothes remained relatively static at $25,000,000 in 2010 and 2014. Toiletries spending showed a slightly growth, increasing from nearly $18,000,000 in 2010 to $20,000,000 in 2014. In contrast, smartphones-related contributions experienced a gradual increase throughout, climbing from $20,000,000 in 2010 to roughly $27,000,000 by 2014, surpassing both clothes and toiletries.
Books-related spending consistency received the smallest proportion of the country’s money. This sector began at $10,000,000 in 2010. In contrast to the other sectors, it decreased by half and reached $5,000,000. Although this sector remained quite amount of spending, the country started to decrease its money over time.