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Food CPI and Expenditures: 2007 Table 97

Table 97—Percent of household final consumption expenditures spent on food, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco that were consumed at home, by selected countries, 20071
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
5.7
NA
NA
1,935
   Euromonitor estimate 6.9 2.1 32,251 2,223
Ireland
8.2
5.2
26,196
2,160
Singapore
8.3
2.1
12,736
1,058
United Kingdom
8.6
3.6
27,272
2,351
Canada
9.2
3.8
23,993
2,203
United Arab Emirates
9.4
0.4
13,629
1,281
Netherlands
10.3
2.9
21,698
2,224
Austria
10.3
2.5
24,951
2,573
Switzerland
10.3
3.6
31,851
3,285
Australia
10.7
4.0
24,595
2,628
Denmark
10.7
3.5
28,023
2,998
Germany
11.4
3.6
21,832
2,497
Sweden
11.7
3.5
22,565
2,646
New Zealand
12.1
4.3
19,465
2,352
Finland
12.2
4.9
22,515
2,751
Hong Kong, China
12.5
0.7
16,806
2,102
Norway
13.3
4.4
29,346
3,896
Belgium
13.3
3.7
21,516
2,859
Spain
13.6
3.1
19,058
2,595
France
13.7
3.0
23,184
3,176
Italy
14.5
2.8
21,315
3,091
Greece
14.5
4.8
20,765
3,014
Malaysia
14.6
1.2
3,127
455
Kuwait
14.6
1.6
7,778
1,137
Japan
14.6
3.2
18,737
2,742
Slovenia
14.9
4.1
12,802
1,908
South Korea
15.4
2.6
10,287
1,589
Estonia
16.1
8.1
8,831
1,420
Czech Republic
16.2
7.6
8,369
1,356
Hungary
17.1
8.0
8,829
1,508
Portugal
17.3
3.9
13,935
2,406
Israel
17.8
1.7
12,329
2,198
Slovakia
17.9
4.5
7,904
1,414
Latvia
19.2
6.3
7,604
1,463
Bulgaria
20.0
3.9
3,780
756
Argentina
20.2
3.3
3,906
789
Poland
20.6
6.6
6,675
1,375
South Africa
20.6
4.6
3,474
716
Ecuador
20.9
1.7
2,094
437
Chile
23.4
0.8
5,195
1,215
Lithuania
23.8
6.1
7,495
1,781
Saudi Arabia
23.8
1.3
3,638
864
Mexico
24.2
2.5
5,579
1,348
Taiwan
24.2
2.1
9,679
2,345
Brazil
24.6
1.9
4,183
1,028
Turkey
24.8
4.1
6,210
1,537
Thailand
24.9
5.4
2,110
526
Croatia
26.3
2.9
6,487
1,705
Colombia
27.8
4.7
2,211
615
Bolivia
28.6
2.2
859
246
Russia
28.7
2.3
4,363
1,251
Peru
29.1
2.0
2,217
646
Venezuela
29.5
3.1
3,718
1,097
Turkmenistan
30.4
2.5
2,655
806
India
32.4
2.3
536
174
Romania
34.3
5.0
5,346
1,834
China
34.9
2.7
882
308
Tunisia
35.8
1.0
2,186
783
Kazakhstan
35.9
3.5
2,820
1,013
Philippines
37.3
1.6
1,136
424
Egypt
38.8
2.3
1,279
496
Vietnam
38.8
2.7
504
196
Morocco
40.2
1.3
1,523
612
Nigeria
40.3
2.5
677
273
Jordan
40.9
4.9
2,344
958
Ukraine
42.3
6.3
2,192
927
Algeria
43.9
2.0
1,119
491
Belarus
44.6
5.9
2,318
1,034
Indonesia
45.7
5.9
1,138
520
Pakistan
45.7
2.5
634
290
Azerbaijan
50.4
2.3
874
440
NA = Not available.

1The data are computed by Birgit Meade (202-694-5159, bmeade@ers.usda.gov), ERS/USDA, EUROMONITOR data, July 2008.

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: December 19, 2008