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Food CPI, Prices and Expenditures:
Expenditures on Food, by Selected Countries, 2005

Table 97
Percent of household final consumption expenditures spent on food, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco that were consumed at home, by selected countries, 20051
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
1,759
   Euromonitor estimate 7.2 2.1 29,145 2,088
Singapore 8.1 2.3 11,034 893
Ireland 8.7 5.4 21,192 1,836
United Kingdom 8.8 3.7 23,040 2,028
Canada 9.4 3.9 19,339 1,815
United Arab Emirates 10.4 0.6 7,932 825
Netherlands 10.6 3.0 18,508 1,970
Switzerland 10.6 3.7 28,525 3,012
Austria 11.2 2.7 20,155 2,257
Germany 11.2 3.5 19,374 2,165
Denmark 11.2 3.8 22,861 2,564
Australia 11.3 4.2 19,466 2,204
Sweden 12.0 3.7 18,432 2,220
Kuwait 12.1 1.3 9,673 1,170
New Zealand 12.5 4.4 15,977 2,002
Finland 12.5 5.0 18,444 2,300
Hong Kong, China 13.0 0.8 14,351 1,865
Belgium 13.1 3.7 18,545 2,439
Norway 13.2 4.3 25,630 3,374
France 13.9 3.1 19,528 2,720
Japan 14.6 3.2 20,030 2,934
Spain 14.9 3.3 14,892 2,223
Italy 15.0 2.7 17,746 2,667
South Korea 15.2 2.6 8,568 1,304
Malaysia 15.6 1.3 2,153 335
Greece 15.7 5.0 13,573 2,132
Slovenia 16.3 4.5 9,240 1,504
Czech Republic 17.3 8.0 5,944 1,030
Israel 17.4 1.6 10,056 1,751
Hungary 17.8 8.2 7,236 1,286
Portugal 17.9 4.0 11,082 1,982
Estonia 19.6 8.7 5,144 1,009
Slovakia 19.7 4.9 4,963 975
Argentina 20.3 3.3 2,919 594
Latvia 20.5 6.5 4,286 877
Saudi Arabia 21.4 1.2 3,728 798
South Africa 21.5 4.7 3,046 655
Poland 21.9 7.3 4,603 1,010
Taiwan 23.6 2.1 9,067 2,136
Chile 23.7 0.8 3,972 942
Mexico 24.5 2.5 4,946 1,211
Brazil 24.6 2.0 2,430 598
Thailand 25.7 5.8 1,589 409
Colombia 26.0 4.5 1,726 450
Lithuania 26.5 6.7 4,875 1,293
Indonesia 27.2 2.1 799 217
Philippines 27.8 2.1 798 222
China 28.2 2.2 650 183
Ecuador 29.0 6.1 1,095 318
Bolivia 29.3 2.2 668 196
Venezuela 29.4 3.1 2,092 616
Turkey 29.4 5.1 3,271 962
Bulgaria 29.5 4.1 2,397 706
Peru 29.7 2.0 1,838 545
Croatia 33.5 4.0 4,839 1,622
Russia 33.6 2.7 2,593 871
Romania 34.7 5.0 3,309 1,148
Turkmenistan 35.0 3.0 724 253
Tunisia 36.6 1.0 1,784 653
India 36.8 2.4 393 145
Kazakhstan 38.9 3.6 1,841 715
Vietnam 39.8 2.9 395 157
Nigeria 40.8 2.5 361 147
Pakistan 41.5 2.5 40 17
Egypt 41.5 2.5 913 379
Jordan 43.3 5.1 1,497 647
Algeria 43.7 2.0 1,030 451
Ukraine 43.7 6.6 1,194 522
Morocco 44.8 1.5 1,081 484
Belarus 47.3 6.3 1,558 737
Azerbaijan 53.2 2.4 581 309
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