The pie charts depict the expenditure (allocation of money) per year on six distinct categories in Someland’s local authorities over the 20-year period.
Overall, all figures fluctuated markedly over the period shown. It is clear that higher education, environment services and transportation experienced an upward trend, whereas others decreased.
In more detail, spending for higher education surpassed others in 1980, accounting for over a third, and increased constantly thereafter. Although this figure witnessed a slight decline to 40% by the , it remained the highest disbursement. Additionally, transportation had the third highest expenditure in the initial year before falling over two-fold after the first 10 years, comprising 6%. However, this spending rose considerably by 16% in 2000, making up over a fifth. There was a steady growth in environment service payment, ranging from 4% to nearly a tenth.
Conversely, disbursement for k-12 education was the second highest spending in the first year, comprising a quarter. This figure declined steadily afterward and by 2000, money distribution for k-12 dropped to 18%. Similarly, expenditure for others went down constantly over the given period and this figure was only 1% in 2000. Notably, the proportion of health and human resources went up rapidly to a fifth in 1990 year before falling to just a half ten years later.