Band 7+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The line graph below shows the percentage of spending in Turkey, from 1960 to 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The provided line graph illustrates the percentage of Turkey’s expenditure on food, leisure, clothing, transportation and energy between the year 1960 and 2000.

Overall, spending on food and leisure gradually reduced throughout the period, while clothing increased steadily. Transport and Energy remained comparatively low and steady.

Spending on food slightly dropped from 35% to aproximately 32% from 1960 to 1970. Furthermore, it steadily declined from 32% to 15% across the rest of the period. Whereas, there was an increase in clothing by about 9% to 15% for the first 20 years, followed by a gradual increase of around 2% for the remainder of the years.

By comparison, Transport and Energy recorded significantly low spending throughout the 40 years period. Transport went from 10% of the expenditure to about 7% in 30 years, and then dropped significantly from 7% to 3%. Similarly, spending on energy remains stable with a slight drop from 5% to about 1% over the period