The given graph compares the proportion of authorities using budget for constructing roads and needed transportation in 4 different nations namely Italia, Portugal, the UK and the USA in 4 separate years including 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005.
Overall, it can be easily seen that Portugal was the country which achieved the highest ranking in the percentage of government spending in almost every inspected years, while the contrast was true for the case of the UK.
First of all, Portugal’s government spent more than 25% on road and transport in 1990, which was higher than the other mentioned nations by the range of 5%-12% in that year, leading to reaching the top spending nation in those two sectors. In addition, this country remained this ranking in 5 years later with just under 25% before Italia reached the first ranking in 2000 due to the budget spent for these sectors was approximately 23%. However, in the last inspected year, the government of Portugal spent exact 20% and came back to be the authority spending largest among the four countries.
In contrast, the government in the UK used the lowest percentage of budget for road and transportation in all four separate years with exact 10%, about 9%, roughly 12% and 8% respectively, which was lesser than the USA by approximately 1% in those three first years and nearly half in the last year.
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