The pie charts compare the percentage of expenditures on seven different spending habits in the UK from 1971 to 2001. Overall, the higher percentage of expenditures in 1971 was on food, while the 2001 year has experienced almost the same percentage of expenses on cars.
According to the graph we can see that in 1971 the lowest percentage of money was spent on books was 6% and computers 2%. The expenditures on restaurants were about 7 percent, while the expenses on furniture and petrol were similar around 9 and 10 percent. The highest percentage of spending was on cars approximately 44% which was double figure for cars.
In the next three decades, car expenses experienced a significant growth and became the highest point, at 43%, while only 1% was spent on books. Following this, the proportion of food decreased sharply to 14% and the percentage of restaurants was the same. Until 2001 the amount of money invested in furniture and petrol experienced a slight reduction to 8%. Finally, there was a huge growth in spending money on buying computers to 12%.