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In 2019, EU households spent 956 billion euros (6.8 percent of total GDP) on “food and non-alcoholic beverages,” Eurostat reported today.
The figure covers 13 percent of total consumer spending and places this category in third place after “housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels” with a 23.5 percent share of household and “transportation expenses. “with 13.1 percent, BTA reports. .
Romanian households spent about a quarter of their budget (26 percent) on food and soft drinks, followed by the population of Lithuania (20.2 percent), Estonia (19.3 percent) and Bulgaria (less than 19 percent).
The share of spending in this category is lowest in Ireland (8.6%), Luxembourg (8.9%) and Austria (9.7%).
Between 2009 and 2019, the steepest drops in food spending were seen in Lithuania (from 25.4% to 20.2%), Malta (-3.5 percentage points) and Poland (-3 percentage points), and the plus a large increase: in the Czech Republic (from 14.2% to 15.5%), Slovakia (+1.1 percentage points), Hungary (+0.5 percentage points) and the Netherlands (+0, 4 percentage points).
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