The table compares the percentage of monthly household consumption—food and drink, housing, clothing, and entertainment—across five European countries.
Overall, countries spend the largest portion of their household budgets on food and drink, as well as housing. In contrast, clothing and entertainment categories accounted for a smaller percentage of household expenses.
Germany had the highest overall proportion of income allocated to the other three categories, excluding food and drink, at approximately 22%. Turkey (36%) and Spain (31%) had the highest percentages for food and drink. In the UK, the percentage of household income spent on housing was the highest among all countries, at 37%. Germany and France both allocated more than 30% of their income to housing.
Spain and Turkey had the lowest proportions of household income on housing, at 18% and 20%, respectively. Additionally, the smallest percentages of monthly household income spent on clothing were around 8% in Spain and 7% in France. The UK spent 11% of its income on both clothing and entertainment, while Turkey’s expenditures on these categories were slightly different from each other.
