05 December 2012

The demographics of personal spending

HS Dent, an economic forecasting firm, compiled Census data on spending behavior and presented them as a series of demand curves (see right). The curves measure average annual expenditure for a given product over the age of the consumer. 
Several dozen of these graphs are assembled at Business Insider, covering all sorts of different types of purchases:


Via The Dish.

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