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Food CPI, Prices and Expenditures:
Expenditures on Food, by Selected Countries, 2002

Table 97
Share of household final consumption expenditures spent on food and alcoholic beverages consumed at home, by selected countries, 2002
Country/Territory
Share of household final consumption expenditures1 Household final consumption expenditures
Food2 Alcoholic beverages Total Food
  Percent Dollars per person
United States3
   ERS estimate 6.5 1.5 25,590 1,675
   UN estimate 7.3 1.6 25,590 1,874
United Kingdom 9.1 4.0 16,867 1,543
China, Macao SAR 9.6 1.0 5,740 550
Canada 9.9 4.0 12,715 1,264
Australia 10.5 4.1 12,507 1,315
Switzerland 10.9 3.6 22,188 2,427
Netherlands 11.0 3.2 12,788 1,407
Germany 11.9 3.9 13,663 1,624
Sweden 12.5 4.1 12,731 1,591
Denmark 12.6 4.5 14,900 1,871
Austria 12.6 3.0 14,078 1,773
Finland 12.9 5.9 12,381 1,596
Belgium 13.3 3.8 12,613 1,671
China, Hong Kong SAR 13.4 0.8 12,605 1,690
Japan 14.4 3.2 17,456 2,517
Italy 14.7 2.4 12,314 1,812
France 14.8 3.5 13,106 1,939
Republic of Korea 14.9 2.3 13,272 1,980
Puerto Rico 15.7 3.9 9,879 1,546
New Zealand 16.74 NA 8,884 1,488
Spain 17.1 3.3 9,242 1,577
Greece 17.1 5.1 8,389 1,437
Israel 18.6 2.6 9,157 1,706
Czech Republic 18.7 8.7 3,606 676
Iceland 18.8 4.9 15,413 2,903
Poland 19.9 6.5 3,241 646
Slovakia 22.5 5.9 2,556 575
Malta 22.5 4.4 6,225 1,401
Latvia 23.7 7.4 2,463 584
Estonia 23.7 10.2 2,887 685
Mexico 24.5 2.7 4,394 1,075
Thailand 24.9 6.3 1,164 290
South Africa 26.64 NA 1,511 402
Malaysia 28.9 3.8 1,727 498
Lithuania 29.0 7.2 2,595 751
Bulgaria 29.3 3.6 1,347 394
Islamic Republic of Iran 30.54 NA 916 280
Sri Lanka 39.7 10.0 612 243
India 39.7 3.6 313 124
Philippines 47.5 2.0 667 317
Belarus 50.5 5.1 850 430
Azerbaijan 76.8 1.8 471 362


NA= Not available. SAR=Special Administrative Region.
1/ Household final consumption expenditures are the sum of spending on food and nonalcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics, clothing and footwear, housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, furnishings, household equipment and routine maintenance of the house, health, transport, communication, recreation and culture, education, restaurants and hotels, miscellaneous goods and services, plus direct purchases abroad by residents, minus direct domestic market purchases by nonresidents.
2/ Includes nonalcoholic beverages.
3/ Two sets of estimates are shown for the United States. The first set is based on ERS estimates of U.S. food and beverage expenditures by families and individuals. The second set is based on U.S. Department of Commerce estimates of expenditure for food and beverages, and is used by the United Nations (UN). The ERS estimates are lower partly because they exclude pet food, ice and prepared feed, which are included in the UN provided numbers. The ERS estimates also deduct more from grocery store sales for nonfoods, such as drugs and household supplies, in arriving at the estimate for food purchases for at-home consumption.
4/ Includes alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotics.

Source: Computed by Birgit Meade (202-694-5159), ERS, from data provided by the UN System of National Accounts and ERS expenditure series.

 

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Updated date: May 17, 2005