The pie charts compare the proportion of household spending across six distinct categories in a nation in 2005 and 2020.
Overall, housing remained the largest expense in both years, although it’s portion declined slightly. By contrast, healthcare recorded the lowest figure, despite increasing partly in the later year. Notably, both education and transportation experienced noticeable rise.
In 2005, housing accounted for 32% of total household expenditure, which was the highest figure among all categories, followed by the share of food at 29%, making it the second highest category. However, the spending for food recorded at 14%, which was double than that in healthcare. Education and other expenses represented 8% and 10%, respectively.
By 2020, the expenditure of housing decreased slightly from 32% to 28%, while transportation increased moderately by 4%, reaching at 18%. Food followed a downward trend and reached to 22%, whereas Education surged at 15%, which was almost double from its previous year. Other expenses went down by 2%, although healthcare boosted by 2%.