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Food: in Romania highest household expenditure at EU level

Large decrease in Lithuania between 2008 and 2018

09 December, 14:10
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 09 DEC - Romanians spend more than one fifth of their total budget on food, the highest share in the European Union, according to new Eurostat data published today. In 2018, households in Romania spent 27.8% of total household consumption expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages, the EU statistical agency said. High shares were registered also in Lithuania (20.9%), Estonia (19.6%), Bulgaria (19.1%), Croatia (18.8%), Latvia (17.8%), Slovakia (17.4%), Greece (16.9%) and Poland (16.4%), all countries above the 12.1% EU average. In contrast, the figure was below 10% in the United Kingdom (7.8%), Ireland (8.7%), Luxembourg (9.1%) and Austria (9.7%).

Between 2008 and 2018, Eurostat added, the largest increase of food expenditures was recorded in in Czechia and Slovakia (both +1.4%), while the largest decrease was recorded in Lithuania (from 24.8% in 2008 to 20.9% in 2018, -3,9%), followed by Poland (-3.4%). (ANSA).

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