The pie charts provides informations about household expenses on crucial things in China between 1995 and 2011. In general, food was make up more than half of household spending with a slight decrease in the end of the period. Moreover, every essential goods categories tend to show an upward trend in a sixteen-year period.
Food category makes up almost seven in ten of total daily necessities spending in 1995, but the rate started to decline for around 10 percent in the next sixteen years; however, food expenses still account for majority of total spending. On the other hand, the buying rates of medicine in China household triple in 2011, started from 4 percent in 1995 to 11% in 2011.
This also applies to clothing and household equipment which showed a steady rise from 1995 to 2011 whereas clothing expenses rate increase 1 percent and household equipment raising from 9 percent to 12 percent in 2011.
