The two pie charts compare the proportion of eight kinds of expenditures per person in one country in 1990 and in 2010. Overall, while the expenditure patterns for housing, entertainment, health and clothing recorded a rise, remaining sectors bucked the trend, except for electricity which was identical for both years. Moreover the proportion of outlay on household items was the staggering figure for both periods, despite a decline in the final year.
Focusing firstly on increases, the percentage of money spending on accommodation and entertainment started at 17.0% and 15.3% in 1990, and this was followed by a slightly rise to 17.5% and 18.1% respectively in 2010. Moreover, the proportion of expenditures on health insurance and clothing were just about 4.7% and 8.0%,
before both rising to 8.7%.
On the other hand, people spend money for purchasing household goods decreased from 26.5% to 23.0%, while the food, which showed a same trend started from 14.0% in 1990, after that the figure decreased to 3.3 percentage-point. Furthermore, spending money on commuting decreased slightly from 12.5% to 11.3%.