The table illustrates how much money young individuals aged 18 to 20 in one country spent on five different categories – namely food, clothes, books, smartphones, and toiletries – in two separate years, 2010 and 2014.
Overall, food accounted for the largest portion of expenditure, while spending on books was consistently the lowest in both years. Notably, the allocation for food, smartphones, and toiletries increased over the four years, while book expenses showed a significant decline. Clothes were the only category where expenditure remained constant.
In 2010, nearly 3,700 million dollars were spent on food, making it the category with the highest expenditure, followed by clothes, at 2,500 million dollars. Spending on smartphones and toiletries was relatively equal at around 2,000 million dollars each, which was double the expenditure on books, at just 1,000 million dollars.
Over the next four years, food continued to dominate expenditure, rising to approximately 4,400 million dollars. Spending on smartphones saw a significant increase, climbing to around 2,700 million dollars, while toiletries saw a slight increase to 2,000 million dollars. In contrast, the amount spent on books halved, dropping to 500 million dollars, remaining the lowest expense. Finally, expenditure on clothes remained unchanged at 2,500 million dollars throughout the period.