The pie charts illustrate five types of family expenses in different countries comparing them over two periods 1980 and 2008.
Overall, the pie charts highlight the utility bills and food & drink as the highest in percentage expense types across all the pie charts, while other categories such as ‘other’, ‘leisure’ and ‘transport’ fluctuate within the greater and smaller proportions.
The UK in 1980 presents utility bills at 26%, which is pointed with green color, simultaneously while food and drink category with blue color remains slightly smaller proportion at 23%. The yellow category called ‘transport’ lowers to 15%, but the subsequent orange category shows almost twice as much as the previous category, standing at 27%. The red section called ‘other’ presents the tiniest nine percentages. In the next period, the red sections slightly increases to 11%, followed by the orange section experiencing a noticeable growth to 34%. The yellow spending type decreases to 14%, apparently because the transportation needs were compromised by the entrepreneurial side. The highlighted green section shows a slight increase in proportion at 28%, however, the blue part falls to 14%, accordingly, only three subcategories exceeded their previous proportions.
The second chart of the New Zealand presents the green and blue categories as the greatest in proportions, to be more precise, the green section stands at 27%, while the blue spending type slightly exceedes that number by reaching 29%. The transportation, in comparison to the UK’s past chart, shows a greater number at 17%, while the orange and the latest red categories remain 18% and 9%. At present, only the red and green categories face a slight growth, ‘other’ section presents 11%, while the green’s trend shows 31%, the highest number among the charts. However, the orange area slightly decreases to 17% losing only one percentage, as well as the yellow category did lowering to 16%. The blue category also falls to 25% at present of the New Zealand.