These charts demonstrate how much income was spent on food and other goods in three countries of Europe between 1998 and 2008.
Overall, the costs have increased significantly in every country by 2008. The biggest differences in the proportion of income occurred in France in both categories, whereas the minimum rise was in Germany. England was the only country where the percentage of income spent on food grew much less than that spent on other goods.
Having spent 15 per cent on food and approximately 7 per cent on other products, the percentage of France’s income jumped to 40 per cent in both categories in 2008. While at the same years, Germany’s expanses on these types of products differed by a small proportion.
Comparing an upward trend in England in both charts, it is obvious that a rise of spending income was much more dramatic in the second option rather than in first chart. After spending only about 6 per cent on other goods in 1998, the proportion went up considerably to 35 per cent in 2008. Nevertheless, the expanses on food increased slowly by only 5 per cent.