The provided pie charts compare the proportion of European students daily expenditure in four decades (1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015). Overall, meals and acommodation were dominating students daily expenses. Furthermore, rents experienced significant growth over time, while others declined.
At the beginning of the period, students spend 30% of their budget for their food, this percentage remain stable for the next decade before fell slightly to 25% in 1995 and finishing at just 22%. In contrast, lease was the second most dominant student enxpenses starting at 25% and continued to increase until it became the half of the students’ needs
On the other hands, Entertaiment was the second most highest budget alongside with rent in 1985 with a quarter of the students budget and increasing for next ten years with 29% before a moderate decreased, finishing at 18%. The fashion expenditure also having a significant decrease between 1985 to 2015 (20% to 10% of the daily expenses), resulting in clothing as the least student expense.