The chart below gives information about the household percentage of spending on essential goods in China for the years 1995 and 2011

The twin pie charts illustrate the expense of

household

necessities in China in the year 1995

along with

2011.

This

is based on four parameters namely food, clothing, medicine and

household

goods. The budget for food is highest in 1995 at sixty-eight per

cent

,

whereas

the expenditure on medicine is the lowest at four per

cent

only. Though significantly less, edible is followed by clothing with an allocation of only nineteen per

cent

,

while

nine per

cent

is the allocation to other

household

goods.

This

budget has undergone notable changes over sixteen years. In 2011, the expense of meals was minimised by nine per

cent

and it became fifty-nine per

cent

, but on ,medicines it hiked by seven per

cent

. The new expenditure on medicine is eleven per

cent

of the total expense. The budget for clothing remained almost the same i.e., 19%,

however

for other

household

goods it rose by three per

cent

and became 12%.