The line chart illustrates the percentage of individuals’ income spent on petrol in the United States and the United Kingdom.
From an overall perspective, among all the social classes in the USA, the poorest group had the highest proportion of expenditure on petrol, whereas the UK exhibited a contrasting pattern with the richest group recording the highest petrol spending.
The percentage of petrol expenditure by the poorest group in the USA was approximately from 3.7% to 5.2%, which was nearly double the figure for the UK. Conversely, the richest class in the UK accounted for between around 3.1% and 3.8% expenditure on petrol, whereas the figure for the USA was slightly lower, from roughly 2.3% to 3.7% of income spent.
The middle-income group in the UK constituted from about 2.6% to 3.7% spending on such fuel, while the USA followed a contrasting pattern, with the figure standing at between 3.8% and 3.9% expenditure, marginally surpassing this figure for the UK.