Average monthly expenditure in British households

The bar chart gives information about the average money amount spending monthly on five categories (utility bills, transport, rent, entertainment and groceries) by British families over three decades. Overall, it can clearly be seen that there was an upward trend on the outlay during the whole time frame. The most significant is that, among five given items, spending monthly on rent was generally higher than other groups. In 1990, the proportion of expenditure stood at 450 pounds, then reached to 520 in the following decade and ended the period with the final figure of 600. In the same pattern, the outlay on utility bills experienced an approximately twofold increase, from 80 to 150 in a period of twenty years. Interestingly, the average amount of money paid out for groceries exhibited a slightly rising trend with a minor increase of 10 to 330 in 2000, then stablelized at the same value as the previous decade. On the contrary, the expenditure saw a downward trend on entertainment, where the expense fell from 110 in 1990 to 100 in 2010. To sum it up, the expenditure on five categories showed an increasing feature in all but one. It is clear that spending on entertainment exhibited a slightly fall over the period.