The charts below shows the proportion of income spent on food and other goods across 3 European nations from 1998 to 2008.

The bar charts illustrate the proportion of earnings spent on food and other goods across France, Germany,and England between 1998 and 2008. 1Overall, 2over the ten-year periodas time went on, these three countries all witnessed a notable rise in the proportion of income spent on food and other 3commoditiesgoods, with France 4allocating the highest proportion of income togave more attention on the spending of food and other goods. Specifically,5expenditure in France registeredthe proportion of spending in France witnessed the most notable growth from 1998 to 20086, where the proportions spent on food and other goods rose from 15% and 9% respectively to 40%,which the figures of food and other goods both rose from 15 and 9 to 40. 87In addition, the striking growth in expenditure onNext,the striking growth of other goods in England followed closely after France,9with an increase from 8% to 35%with the increase from 9 to 35,10more than double its food expendituremore than two times of the spending on food.11The smallest increase in both food and other goods was in Germany,where the proportion only rose 12from 25% to 30% for food and 17% to 24% for other goodsfrom 25 to 30 and 18 to 23 13respectively, which was the same asrespectively,the same as the growth in spending on food in England.