The bar chart illustrates how much money 18-20-year-olds in one country spent on five consumer products in the years 2010 and 2014.
Overall, the expenditure in most categories experienced an increase of varying degrees, with the notable exception of clothes and books, where the spending either dropped or remained stable. Notably, the amount of money spent on food was the highest in both years, whereas the opposite was true for books.
In 2010, the amount of money spent on food was the highest, standing at $3500 million. Over the next four years, this figure experienced a marked increase, reaching nearly $4500 million, and maintaining its leading position.
Initially, smartphones and toiletries received almost similar amounts ($2000-$1900 million). By 2014, however, both figures followed an upward trajectory albeit to varying degrees. While spending on smartphones climbed to about $2600 million up from $2000 million, the latter reached $2000 million in 2014, exhibiting an increase of $100 million.
Clothes and books, on the other hand, were the only exceptions, with the former remaining unchanged at $2500 million throughout the period, whereas the latter was the only category to see a steady decline. In the first year, $1000 million was spent on books, but it dropped to a mere $500 million in 2014, remaining as the smallest figure on the chart.