Band 4+: The pie charts below show the average household expenditures in a country in 1950 and 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the household expenditures of a country by major category for 1950 and 2010. Units are measured in percentages.

Overall, it can be seen that more than a half of percentage expenditure are spent by housing category in 1950, while food is the most expenditure in 2010, followed by housing expenditure.

In 1950, almost three-quarters of household expenditure is in housing category, which the highest percentage amount in 1950. Whereas, other major categories are accounted in remaining part of pie chart. Therefore, even the most percentage amount in remaining categories is 11.2% in food category; then, followed by expenditure of education with 6.6%. Whereas, health care and other categories are 3.3% and 4.4%, respectively. However, the percentage expenditure of transportation is the least amount in the whole categories.

In terms of 2010, both housing and food accounted for almost half of the whole categories, 34.0% and 22.0%, respectively. And, almost a tenth of household expenditure in others, while the percentage of transportation is less than around 5%. However, a total of healthcare and education have one in ten of the whole expenditure percentage, 6.3% and 4.5%, respectively.