The bar chart illustrates how much money was paid on five different spending areas by residents in a specific country between 2010 and 2014.
Overall, there was an increase in the amount of money allocated to food, smartphones, and toiletries in the country examined, while a decline was seen in the figures for those investing in books. In addition, clothes witnessed no change throughout the period shown.
The amount of household’s earnings purchased on food started at about 3,600 million dollars, after which it saw a rise to reach around 4,500 million dollars in 2014. Similar changes, but to lesser extents, can be seen in the figures for smartphones and toiletries, which increased from 2,000 million dollars to about 2,600 million dollars, and from 1,900 million dollars to 2,000 million dollars, respectively.
1,000 million dollars of each household’s income were used to buy books in 2010, with a subsequent fall to just 500 million dollars four years later. Meanwhile, the figures for clothes remained unchanged, which began at precisely 2,500 million dollars and then plateaued towards the end of the period.