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Food CPI and Expenditures: 2008 Table 97

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Table 97—Percent of household final consumption expenditures spent on food, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco that were consumed at home, by selected countries, 20081
Country/Territory
Share of household final consumption expenditures  
Food2 Alcoholic beverages and tobacco Total household final consumption expenditures3 Expenditure per capita on food2
  Percent U.S. dollars per person
United States
   ERS estimate
5.6
NA
NA
1,973
   Euromonitor estimate
6.8
1.9
32,443
2,202
Ireland
7.5
5.4
28,604
2,155
Singapore
8.1
2.4
15,229
1,241
United Kingdom
8.9
3.7
26,375
2,351
United Arab Emirates
9.0
0.4
23,252
2,103
Canada
9.1
3.9
24,880
2,267
Switzerland
10.3
3.6
36,539
3,753
Australia
10.6
4.0
26,502
2,810
Austria
11.1
3.3
26,708
2,970
Germany
11.4
3.6
23,930
2,728
Netherlands
11.4
2.9
23,838
2,722
Denmark
11.4
3.7
29,730
3,402
Sweden
11.6
3.7
23,508
2,728
Finland
12.1
5.0
25,265
3,052
New Zealand
12.1
4.3
17,630
2,135
Hong Kong, China
12.3
0.8
18,325
2,247
Qatar
12.8
0.3
13,656
1,751
 
Norway
13.1
4.5
34,322
4,495
Belgium
13.1
3.8
23,726
3,115
Spain
13.4
3.1
20,899
2,801
France
13.4
3.1
25,690
3,450
Malaysia
14.2
1.3
3,571
508
Greece
14.2
4.8
23,589
3,361
Italy
14.4
2.7
23,001
3,302
Japan
14.4
3.2
21,380
3,087
Bahrain
14.5
0.4
6,485
940
Kuwait
14.6
1.6
13,036
1,897
Slovenia
14.6
4.5
15,054
2,191
South Korea
15.3
2.6
10,062
1,541
Estonia
15.3
8.0
9,933
1,523
Portugal
15.7
3.5
15,355
2,411
Czech Republic
15.9
7.7
10,525
1,675
Hungary
16.6
8.1
8,165
1,357
Slovakia
17.2
4.8
10,532
1,809
Israel
17.8
1.6
15,876
2,821
Uruguay
18.7
4.0
6,957
1,303
Bulgaria
19.0
3.7
4,807
915
Latvia
19.2
6.6
8,843
1,696
Ecuador
19.9
1.9
2,433
485
South Africa
20.1
4.6
3,410
687
Argentina
20.3
3.3
4,636
940
Poland
20.4
6.6
8,506
1,737
Lithuania
22.9
6.6
8,989
2,055
Chile
23.4
0.8
5,863
1,370
Saudi Arabia
23.7
1.3
4,876
1,158
Mexico
24.1
2.5
6,630
1,596
Taiwan
24.1
2.1
10,224
2,464
Turkey
24.5
4.1
7,065
1,734
Brazil
24.6
2.0
5,164
1,269
Thailand
24.9
5.6
2,362
588
Costa Rica
25.9
1.5
4,100
1,062
Croatia
26.1
3.3
9,323
2,431
Iran
26.3
0.7
2,288
601
Colombia
27.7
4.7
3,381
937
Bolivia
28.4
2.2
1,072
305
Turkmenistan
28.7
3.0
1,528
438
Peru
29.1
2.0
2,805
816
Russia
29.1
2.7
5,534
1,610
Venezuela
29.3
3.1
5,967
1,748
Dominican Republic
29.5
3.0
3,490
1,028
Bosnia-Herzegovina
31.3
6.3
3,963
1,241
Macedonia
31.9
3.4
3,683
1,176
China
33.9
2.9
1,158
392
Romania
34.2
5.0
6,073
2,079
Kazakhstan
35.4
3.7
3,552
1,256
Guatemala
35.6
1.7
2,425
862
Uzbekistan
35.7
2.8
494
177
Tunisia
35.8
1.0
2,428
868
India
35.8
3.2
631
226
Philippines
37.0
1.7
1,306
483
Egypt
38.3
2.3
1,834
703
Cameroon
38.5
1.5
795
306
Vietnam
38.5
2.8
698
269
Nigeria
40.1
2.5
725
290
Morocco
40.3
1.3
1,910
770
Jordan
40.8
4.8
3,090
1,260
Georgia
42.1
5.0
2,065
869
Ukraine
42.2
6.4
2,389
1,009
Algeria
43.8
2.0
1,371
601
Belarus
44.0
6.0
3,296
1,451
Indonesia
44.1
6.3
1,345
593
Kenya
44.9
3.0
557
251
Pakistan
45.6
2.5
608
277
Azerbaijan
48.5
2.4
1,810
879
NA = Not available.

1The data are computed by Birgit Meade (202-694-5159, bmeade@ers.usda.gov), ERS/USDA, EUROMONITOR data, July 2010.

2Includes nonalcoholic beverages.

3Household expenditures for goods and services.

Notes: Two sets of figures are shown for the U.S. The first is from the ERS Food Expenditure series and is based on a comprehensive measure of the total value of all food expenditures in the U.S. by final purchasers. The second set is based on U.S. Department of Commerce estimates of Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) for food and beverages, used by both the United Nations and Euromonitor International. The ERS estimate is lower than the PCE estimate partly because it excludes pet food, ice, and prepared feed which are included in the PCE estimates.

 

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Updated date: July 19, 2010