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Food CPI, Prices and Expenditures:
Expenditures on Food, by Selected Countries, 2006

Table 97
Percent of household final consumption expenditures spent on food, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco that were consumed at home, by selected countries, 20061
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
1,849
   Euromonitor estimate
6.9
2.1
30,851
2,143
Singapore
8.5
2.2
11,320
957
Ireland
8.5
5.2
23,269
1,977
United Kingdom
8.8
3.7
23,895
2,104
Canada
9.3
3.8
21,550
1,994
United Arab Emirates
9.8
0.4
12,792
1,248
Switzerland
10.4
3.6
29,760
3,082
Netherlands
10.4
3.0
19,184
1,993
Austria
10.5
2.5
22,141
2,322
Australia
10.8
4.0
20,865
2,246
Denmark
10.8
3.6
24,637
2,668
Germany
11.5
3.6
19,695
2,261
Sweden
11.9
3.5
19,951
2,367
New Zealand
12.0
4.3
16,017
1,929
Finland
12.4
5.0
19,638
2,426
Hong Kong, China
12.5
0.7
15,260
1,909
Norway
13.4
4.4
27,304
3,654
Belgium
13.5
3.8
19,065
2,567
France
13.8
3.1
20,594
2,842
Spain
13.9
3.1
16,762
2,325
Italy
14.7
2.7
18,865
2,768
Japan
14.7
3.2
18,774
2,760
Kuwait
14.7
1.6
8,412
1,239
Greece
14.8
4.8
18,003
2,662
Malaysia
15.0
1.2
2,604
390
Slovenia
15.2
4.2
10,723
1,626
South Korea
15.5
2.6
9,564
1,481
Czech Republic
16.5
7.7
6,962
1,146
Estonia
17.1
8.0
6,982
1,193
Portugal
17.3
3.9
12,113
2,093
Hungary
17.6
8.0
7,337
1,288
Israel
17.9
1.7
10,783
1,933
Slovakia
18.6
4.7
6,006
1,117
Latvia
19.4
6.4
5,485
1,065
Argentina
20.1
3.3
3,243
653
Bulgaria
20.8
3.9
3,005
626
Poland
20.9
6.6
5,511
1,151
South Africa
21.2
4.6
3,211
680
Ecuador
21.8
1.8
1,986
433
Chile
23.5
0.8
4,775
1,122
Saudi Arabia
23.8
1.3
3,528
839
Taiwan
24.2
2.1
9,391
2,269
Mexico
24.3
2.5
5,339
1,296
Lithuania
24.6
6.3
5,763
1,417
Brazil
24.7
1.9
3,419
844
Turkey
24.8
4.1
5,029
1,247
Thailand
24.9
5.4
1,876
468
Croatia
26.6
3.0
5,470
1,455
Colombia
27.8
4.7
1,807
503
Bolivia
29.0
2.2
769
223
Peru
29.3
2.0
2,001
585
Venezuela
29.6
3.1
3,089
914
Russia
30.8
2.4
3,337
1,028
Turkmenistan
32.3
2.7
2,205
712
India
33.4
2.3
447
149
Romania
34.4
5.0
3,882
1,336
Tunisia
35.9
1.0
1,947
699
China
35.9
2.8
754
271
Kazakhstan
36.7
3.5
2,333
856
Philippines
37.6
1.6
953
359
Egypt
38.8
2.4
1,089
423
Vietnam
39.1
2.8
450
176
Morocco
40.1
1.3
1,361
546
Nigeria
40.7
2.5
636
259
Jordan
40.9
4.8
2,071
848
Ukraine
42.3
6.3
1,621
686
Algeria
44.0
2.0
1,066
469
Belarus
45.5
6.0
1,962
893
Pakistan
45.9
2.5
575
264
Indonesia
47.0
6.1
986
463
Azerbaijan
52.3
2.4
756
395
NA=Not available.
1The data are computed by Birgit Meade (202-694-5159, bmeade@ers.usda.gov), ERS/USDA, EUROMONITOR data, March 2008.
2Includes nonalcoholic beverages.
3Household expenditures for goods and services.
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: September 3, 2008