The given two pie charts illustrate the percentage of average household expenditures in six different sources (housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, and other sources) in a nation from 1950 to 2010.
Overall, it is obvious that in both years the expenditures of households was the highest on housing and food, while the cost of average household was the lowest on transportation.
At the beginning of the period, the proportion of expenditures on housing was 72.1%, which showed a rapid decrease to 22.0% at the end of the period. while the spending on education was 6.6%, and then it had a slight go down to 6.3% after a 60 years period. At the beginning of the period, the percentage of expenses on transportation and other sources were 3.3% and 4.4%, respectively. and both figures increased sharply 14.0% and 19.2% in the year 2010. In contest, the cost of household on healthcare was 2.4%, and there was a slight growth of 2.1% at the end of the period.
