The bar chart illustrates the governments’ expenditure on roads and transport in four various regions between 1990 and 2005.
Overall, there was a decline in the proportion of government spending on roads and transport in Italy, the UK, and Portugal; by contrast, the opposite was true in the figure for the USA. In addition, Portugal consistently had the highest figures throughout the period.
The share of the government’s budget on roads and means of transport in Portugal started at 27%, after which it saw a progressive decrease to exactly 20% in 2005. Conversely, the figure for the USA rose from over 10% in 1990 to 15% in 2005, despite a small fall in the first 5 years.
Approximately 22% of the Italian national budget went into the transport infrastructure, which a fluctuation and final decline from 24% in 2000 to around 17% in 2005. Similarly, the figure for the UK fluctuated in the range from 10% to 12% in 2000, before ending the period at around 7%.
