The line graph illustrates the details of US authority expenditure on research from 1980 to 2008
Overall, Health was spent the most amount of money over time. In addition, Space and Energy, were steadily fluctuated and then increased . Lastly, the lowest spending was General Science but then had the same expense as Energy and Other aspects lately.
From 1980 to 1992, Health’s expenditure skyrocketed from approximately 10 billions to 15 billions. Meanwhile, the three categories of research namely Energy,Space and Other had the closet figures in 1984 and 1988, previously, Other had the second highest spending in the first year had decreased around 2 billions but then increased. Moreover,General Space gained the less popularity between 1980 and 1992.
In the last 4 period, Health’s money spent rate jumped from roughly 15 billions to a considerable amount around 25 billions, indicating the most amount of money had spent on the individual research. Furthermore, Space witnessed a significantly great deal of money which continuously increased from 7,5 billions to around 10 billions after a decline, Energy had a fluctuation but lastly reached at 7,5 billions. Finally, Other went done after a incline, the opposite was true to General Space that increased in the last 4 years but had the same proportion with Other in 2008.