The diagram illustrates how the weekly income of families in one country was distributed from 1968 to 2018. The bar chart includes eight categories of expenditure.
Overall, in 1968, people tended to allocate most of their income to buy food, however, 50 years later, they started to spend most of their money on leisure. Moreover, the diagram indicates that the biggest changes in purchasing were in the categories of food, housing and leisure, while there were slight changes in other types of spendings.
At first, the highest amount of families’ income, which was 35 percent, was spent on meals in 1968. However, after 50 years, among all types, the biggest portion of money was dedicated to the entertaiment: more than one over five part of the earnings was spent on it.
Spendings for food, housing and leisure changed the most over the years. For example, citizens initally allocated 35% of their earnings to the meals, which then decreased to nearly 20%. Housing and leisure, on the contrary, increased from 10 to 20 and 8 to 20 percents approxiamately. In addition, spendings on the transport nearly doubled, while the income distributed for purchasing clothing and personal goods halved in amount. Still, there were some categories without any substantial changes over time – fuel and household things.