The pie charts provide information about the changes of yearly spending for different purposes by government in Someland over the 3 decade from 1980 to 2000.
Overall, it is obvious that higher education constituted the largest spending by local authorities during the whole period; however there were corresponding drops for K-12 education. Moreover, the percentage of expenditure for others experienced small and big changes.
In 1980, local government spent 35% of its funding on higher education, which was the most money spent. K-12 education was the second score that 25% of expenditure was recorded that year. However, the proportion of transportation and health and human resources witnessed almost the same numbers, 16% and 14%, respectively.
After a decade, the percentage of higher education increased by 10% that the most local authorities spent almost 50% of money to this field, reaching 45%. In contrast, there was a downward trend for K-12 education making up 20%of spending, this was followed by seeing a decrease of 18% of that the annual spending by the government. There was an increase of 20% on the human and health resources, after reaching at 14% in the former year. Transportation and environmental servicessaw slight changes, decreasing from 16% to 6% for transportation and 5% for environmental resources based on annual expenditure. In 2000, however transportation experienced a dramatic change to 22% and 10% for environmental services. The others’ spending only decreased from 6% to 1% of annual expenditure