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Food CPI, Prices and Expenditures:
Expenditures on Food, by Selected Countries, 2003

Table 97
Percent of household final consumption expenditures spent on food, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco that were consumed at home, by selected countries, 20031
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
5.8
NA
NA
1,635
   Euromonitor estimate 7.0 2.2 27,306 1,918
Ireland 7.5 6.2 16,988 1,276
United Kingdom 9.2 3.9 19,020 1,759
Canada 9.7 3.8 14,735 1,435
Netherlands 10.7 3.1 15,927 1,708
Australia 10.9 4.5 14,357 1,563
Switzerland 11.4 3.7 25,207 2,861
Germany 12.0 3.9 16,444 1,966
Belgium 12.2 3.2 16,012 1,947
Sweden 12.4 4.1 15,950 1,972
Hong Kong, China 12.5 0.6 12,618 1,574
Singapore 12.5 1.8 11,489 1,436
United Arab Emirates 12.6 0.8 6,642 834
Brazil 12.6 3.4 1,884 237
Denmark 12.6 4.5 18,325 2,308
Austria 12.6 3.0 17,124 2,164
Finland 12.9 5.9 15,080 1,941
New Zealand 13.5 4.8 10,346 1,393
South Korea 13.9 2.2 6,677 931
Norway 14.0 4.5 20,971 2,945
Japan 14.3 3.1 19,126 2,734
Italy 14.7 2.4 14,984 2,208
France 14.8 3.4 16,083 2,384
Spain 16.9 3.3 11,848 1,999
Greece 18.3 4.8 10,662 1,951
Slovenia 18.6 4.6 7,629 1,417
Czech Republic 18.9 8.9 4,169 788
South Afria 19.0 8.7 2,189 416
Portugal 19.7 4.4 8,418 1,661
Israel 20.1 1.8 9,023 1,814
Hungary 20.2 8.7 3,989 805
Poland 21.3 6.9 3,282 698
Slovakia 22.2 5.4 3,383 750
Malaysia 22.4 2.7 1,700 380
Saudi Arabia 23.1 1.3 3,275 756
Kuwait 23.5 1.4 8,130 1,914
Latvia 23.6 9.3 2,694 637
Vietnam 23.7 6.1 293 69
Mexico 24.9 2.5 3,994 994
Estonia 25.3 9.6 3,492 883
Turkey 26.9 4.7 2,269 610
Colombia 27.1 4.6 1,152 313
Venezuela 28.3 3.1 2,700 763
Ecuador 28.6 6.1 1,050 301
China 29.1 2.4 490 143
Lithuania 29.7 7.5 3,035 902
Thailand 29.8 7.0 1,279 381
Bolivia 30.2 2.6 676 204
Chile 30.6 2.5 2,519 771
Tunisia 31.0 3.3 1,643 509
Peru 31.0 2.5 1,648 511
Romania 33.9 7.8 1,907 646
Morocco 35.0 2.3 991 347
Croatia 37.7 6.0 3,579 1,349
Bulgaria 37.7 8.4 1,696 640
Philippines 38.0 1.7 701 266
Russia 38.3 10.5 1,563 598
Algeria 39.3 3.2 894 352
Egypt 40.4 0.9 849 342
India 43.1 3.0 334 144
Jordan 44.1 4.9 1,356 598
Ukraine 45.3 7.1 519 235
Kazakhstan 46.5 4.5 1,045 486
Belarus 47.5 7.6 1,042 495
Turkmenistan 52.9 2.6 658 348
Indonesia 55.6 4.9 661 368
Nigeria 57.1 3.0 389 222
Azerbaijan 57.2 3.0 401 229
Pakistan 57.5 3.2 350 201
NA=Not available.
1The data are computed by Birgit Meade (202-694-5159, bmeade@ers.usda.gov), ERS/USDA, EUROMONITOR data, March 2006.
2Includes nonalcoholic beverages.
3Household expenditures for goods and services.

 

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Updated date: November 21, 2007