2022 family spending exceeds pre-COVID ranges

In 2022, family closing consumption expenditure within the EU elevated by 4.7% in contrast with 2021, whereas it was 1.0% increased in contrast with 2019.

In contrast with 2021, important progress of family consumption was noticed in 2022 for items and providers that unprecedentedly dropped in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, expenditure for eating places and motels elevated in volumes by 33.8%, for recreation and tradition by 14.7%, for clothes and footwear by 11.5%, and for transport by 4.7%. Family consumption elevated for all classes apart from meals and non-alcoholic drinks (-3.1%) and alcoholic drinks, tobacco, and narcotics (-1.0%). 

Though family consumption exceeded pre-COVID ranges in 2022, sure classes nonetheless lagged behind pre-COVID figures. Particularly, in 2022, family consumption was nonetheless under 2019 volumes for transport (-7.8%), eating places and motels (-2.4%), and training (-1.5%).

Supply dataset: nama_10_co3_p3