The line graph presents data on what people in a European country spent their money mostly on between 1960 and 2000.
Overall, there are five needs illustrated on the graph: food, leisure, clothing, transport, and energy. It is clear that people’s priorities changed each year; we can see that people spent their budgets mostly on food and leisure, but at the end of the period, these categories experienced a significant drop and became almost equal.
In 1960, the highest group was food, and its percentage was more than 30%; but afterward, there was a sharp drop, and its popularity in 2000 was less than 15%. Leisure was the second most popular spending at the beginning in 1960; however, it dropped dramatically in comparison with the last year, but the reverse was true for clothing, and it became the most significant spending for citizens in 2000. Moreover, transport experienced not such a dramatic decrease as food, but its amount was smaller by almost 5%. Energy remained relatively unchanged and remained the least popular group throughout the years.
In conclusion, we can see that at different times, people had different priorities, and things that were most indispensable for people in 1960 became less needful for the generation after 40 years.