The line graph illustrates the proportion of expenditure in a specific European nation between 1960 and 2000.
Overall, it is noticeable that all the expenditure on food, leisure, transport, and energy slightly declined. By contrast, only clothing expenses experienced a steady increase over a 40-years period.
Specifically, food expenses were at just over 30%, while that of leisure begat at 20%. Figures for both started to decrease until 1970. the decrease rate of food spending accelerated and sizably fall to nearly 20% by 2000. Likewise, the leisure spending did not cease slowly decreasing at its rate and accounted for approximately 20% by 2000.
Regarding the other three spending, clothing was among the least expenses initially, before its percentage steadily increased to about 15% within the subsequent 2 decades. By 2000, it experienced a rise of approximately 5%. Transport spending which made up just above 10% in 1960, moderately fell by about 2% by 1990. In the following years, it underwent the same decline and accounted for around 7%. However, energy’s proportions remained nearly the same throughout the period (at about 5%), with a negligible decrease by the end.