The bar chart illustrates how much money was spent by 18-20-year-olds on 5 types of products, including clothes, books, smartphones and toiletries, in one country between 2010 and 2014.
Overall, food consistently received the largest share of spending throughout the period, while books were the least funded categories. Of a particular note is that smartphones rose steadily and significantly, eventually overtaking both clothes and toiletries by 2014 while the allocating money figures for clothes remained relatively stable and toiletries showed a slight increase over the timeframe.
Food was by far the young adults’ largest number of expenditure throughout the span. In spending on food stood at approximately $37.000.000, far exceeding all other sectors. Although this figure increased noticeably to around $43.000.000 in the following year, the highest amount recorded on the chart.
Clothes, smartphones, and toiletries occupied a middle position in terms of outlay albeit varying patterns across the period. Expenditure on smartphones experienced a gradual increase throughout, climbing from $20.000.000 in 2010 to about $27.000.000 by 2014. Toilatries followed a similar trend, it went up from nearly $18.000.000 in 2010 to $20.000.000 by 2014. Money was spent on clothes by 18-20-years-olds levelled off at $25.000.000 in 2010 and 2014.
Books consistently received the smallest proportions of the outlay. It began at $10.000.000 by 2010, then it dropped doubled to $5.000.000 in 2014. Furthermore, this indicated that books were a low spending priority among young individuals during this time