The pie charts depict the proportion of money spent on different aims including housing, food, clothing, travel/transport, entertainment, and luxury goods in a European country in 1958 and 2008.
By and large, the rate of expenditure on housing, travel/transport, and luxury goods witnessed an upward trend, while the opposite was true for food, clothing, and entertainment. Additionally, the figure for clothing experienced the most significant change on the list.
To begin with, the distribution of money spent on food far exceeded that on accommodation and clothing, with the respective figures being an astounding 32%, 22%, and a humble 18% in 1958. Over the next 5 decades, the proportion of food expenditure declined dramatically to just a minimal 12%, nearly 3 times lower than that in the initial year. The comparable pattern, but to a lesser extent, can be seen in the figure for travel/transport, with the data being 16% in 2008; meanwhile the figure for housing climbed sharply to an astonishing 32% simultaneously.
Regarding entertainment, around 13% of the budget was allocated to this category, which was quite higher than that of transportation and luxury goods, at only 8% and 7% in 1958. However, 50 years later saw a slight drop to about 6% in the figure for entertainment, half of what it was initially. Conversely, the expenditures on travel/transport and luxury goods both substantially increased to reach the same level of 17% in 2008.