The bar chart compares the spending share (measured in millions) across five distinct types of household goods in a country, broken down by the youth aged 18 to 20 in the years 2010 and 2014.
From a quick glance, food established itself as the best selling product, and almost all surveyed products became more prevalent during the period surveyed with the exceptions of clothes, and books. Additionally, books emerged as the only product that exhibited a downward pattern over the time period.
A closer examination revealed that food, and smartphones witnessed a dramatic ascent in their sales, whereas toiletries saw a negligible rise in expenditure proportion. Nearly 4000 million was spent on food by this age bracket in 2010, after which this figure reached its peak of around 4300 million four years later. In 2010, the smartphone spending proportion at the beginning of the period was almost identical to that of toiletries, at about 2000 million, but it increased at a more noticeable rate by the end of the period, at approximately 2700 million, compared to 2000 million for toiletries’ products.
With respect to the remaining household goods, the youth outlay on clothes remained unchanged throughout the period shown, at roughly 2500 million. Meanwhile, the expenditure for books consistently represented the smallest proportion, with its figure starting at 1000 million in 2010 before halving that number by the end of the given time.