The provided pie charts compare the amount of money spent by consumers across seven categories between 2009 and 2019.
Overall, it is evident that food and drink spending consistently exhibited the highest proportion throughout the observed period, while other categories registered for smaller percentages. Notably, clothing, entertainment, and smartphone expenditures substantially demonstrated positive trajectories, contrasting with the downward trends observed in the rate of other sectors.
Initially, money spent on eats decreased slightly from 42% in 2009 to just 39% in 2019. Considerably, there was a dramatic fall in books and transportation spendings, from 6% to only 1% for books expenditure and from 22% to just 12% for the spending in transportation, followed by a marginal decline of 2% in the furniture expenses, from 10% to 8% over the timeframe.
In contrast, the amount of money spent on smartphones surged significantly from 2% to 10% between 2009 and 2019, while entertainment experienced a marked growth by half of it, from 8% to 19% in the decade. Subsequently, there was a slight rise in the clothes’ expenses by just 1%, from 10% in 2009 to 11% in 2019.