Governments should spend more money on education than on recreation and sports. Do you agree or disagree?

The three pie charts below show the changes in annual spending 
by local authorities in Someland in 1980, 1990 and 2000. 
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main 
features, and make comparisons where relevant. 

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The charts show how much local authorities spent on 
a range of services in Someland in three separate 
years: 1980, 1990 and 2000. 
In all three years, the greatest expenditure was on 
education. But while K-12 education saw a fall from 
25% in 1980 to only 18% of spending in 2000, higher 
education remained the largest proportion, reaching 
45% of total spending in 1990 and ending at 40% in 
2000. 
Expenditure on health and human resources had 
increased to 20% by 1990 before decreasing to only 
10% by the end of the period. In contrast, the share of 
transportation saw an opposite trend. This cost 
decreased to only 6% of total expenditure in 1990 but 
rose dramatically in 2000 when it represented 22% of 
the total budget. Similarly, the cost of environmental 
services saw a rising trend, growing from only 4% to 
9% by 2000. 
Overall, higher education constituted the largest cost 
to local authorities, and while spending increased for 
transportation and environmental services, there were 
corresponding drops in expenditure on health and 
human resources and K-12 education. 
 
 

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The chart below gives information about global 
population percentages and distribution of wealth by 
region. 
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting 
the main features, and make comparisons where 
relevant. 

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The chart compares population shares in various regions of 
the world with the distribution of wealth in these same 
regions. It can be seen that wealth is heavily concentrated 
in North America, Europe, and high income Asia-Pacific 
countries which together account for almost 90% of global 
wealth. 
Even though North America has only approximately 6% of 
the world's population, it boasts nearly 34% of global 
wealth. A similar situation can be seen in Europe, which has 
15% of the global population but 30% of global wealth, and 
high income Asia-Pacific countries with 5% of the world's 
population but 24% of its wealth. 
In contrast, the overall share of wealth owned by people in 
Africa, China, India, and other lower income countries in 
Asia is considerably less than their population share, 
sometimes by a factor of more than ten. This is most 
striking in India, where 16% of the world's population own 
only 1% of the world's wealth and in China, which has the 
highest percentage of global population (24%) but only 3% 
of the world's wealth.