The graph illustrates the allocation of expenditures on consumer goods between the two countries of the UK and France over a period of a year in 2010. The consumer goods range from electronics such as computers, cameras, cars to cosmetics such as perfumes to miscellaneous items such as books, all being measured in the unit of pounds sterling.
All in all, the UK dominates France in three out of five categories listed, which are cars, books, and cameras. Meanwhile France only slightly dominating the UK in the categories of computers and perfumes. All being with the UK’s most expensive expenditure being cars with nearly £450,000 and France’s highest spending being in the same category only having £400,000. In contrast, the UK spends the least on perfumes with it being less than £150,000 and France’s cheapest being slightly above is in cameras with exactly £150,000.
Turning to the details, the UK largely dominates France in cars, books, and cameras. Focusing on these categories only, there is a trend of it steadly decreasing starting from cars to books then to cameras with the expenditure from £450,000 to approximately £350,000. France’s expenditure also show the same trend starting with £400,000 then to £150,000. Both France’s and the UK’s most expensive expenditure are in cars. Yet, France’s cheapest expenditure is on cameras with £150,000.
Computers and perfumes are the only two categories that France dominates the UK with. France slightly towers over the UK in terms of computers, with the former being approximately at around £350,000 to £400,000 and the latter at exactly £300,000. Perfumes, is the cheapest expenditure for the UK at nearly £150,000 in contrast to France at £200,000.