The line graph illustrates how much money was spent in a month by high school students on food, transport, leisure, and clothing between 2000 and 2010, expressed in percentage.
Overall, it is readily apparent that while the expenditure of transport and leisure experienced an upward trend, the reverse pattern could be observed in clothing and food. It is important to note that transport initially dominated in the students’ spending, though this peak was not maintained, securing the second place in most of the subsequent years.
In detail, the gap between food and transport was initially around 5%, with spending on the former holding 35% while the latter stood at around 30%, but this gap widened considerably over time. Specifically, the percentage of students spending on transport saw a remarkable increase throughout the given period to a peak of 42% in 2020, becoming the highest number recorded on the chart. By contrast, a different pattern emerged with that for food, with the corresponding figure dropping to around 20% in the final year despite a stable trend between 2005 and 2010.
Turning to the remaining categories, starting at the lowest figure in the first examined year, at around 15%, the rate of money spent on leisure was lower than 5 percentage points compared to clothing, at around 20%. Subsequently, spending on leisure increased more rapidly to 33% by the end of the period, representing a rise of nearly 18% from the initial number compared to a decline of 10% for clothing.