The table illustrates how much money people in the 18-20 age group in a country spend on five different items, sorted into food, clothes, books, smartphones and toiletries, in 2010 and 2014.
Overall, food represented the highest point, while the lowest was books. Another striking point is that there were upward trends in the figure for food, smartphones and toiletries, the opposite was seen in the number of books. Clothes still remained unchanged.
Regarding 2010, nearly 3600 million dollars was spent on food, making it the highest expenditure, followed by clothes with 2500 million dollars. Both spending on smartphones and toiletries came third, with relatively equal at around 2000 million dollars, which were double the data of books.
In 2014, food continued to dominate the first rank, rising to approximately 4400 million dollars. Smartphones came next with a significant increase to more than 2500 million dollars, while there was a slight growth to 2000 million dollars in the statistics of toiletries. In contrast, the amount of books halved, dropping to 500 millions dollars, remaining at the bottom of the list. Clothes still remained unchanged at 2500 million dollars throughout the period.