This table presents household consumption from the national accounts broken down by income quintile. It includes final consumption expenditure and actual individual consumption. Final consumption expenditure concerns the amount that households actually spend on consumption goods and services such as food, clothing, housing, transport, health care and education. Actual individual consumption includes not only households’ total final consumption expenditure but also their consumption of social transfers in kind, which are goods and services (such as health care, education, housing and childcare) that are provided by government and non-profit institutions for free or at subsidised rates, so they are not fully paid for by households themselves.
In this table, households are grouped into income quintiles on the basis of their equivalised disposable income, ranked from lowest to highest, i.e., the first quintile represents the 20% households with the lowest equivalised disposable income and the fifth quintile the 20% households with the highest. Equivalisation means that results for each household have been recalculated on the basis of its consumption needs, in order to produce comparable results across households of different size and composition.
Results are presented in national currency and as averages per household and per consumption unit (you can choose these from the ‘Unit of measure’ filter). Results per consumption unit (equivalised consumption) are obtained by dividing each household’s result by the number of consumption units, reflecting its consumption needs, for example by applying the standard OECD-modified equivalence scale, counting the first adult as 1, any additional people aged 14 and over as 0.5 and all children under 14 as 0.3.
The default view of this table is for a single country (‘Reference area’ filter) and single year (‘Time period’ filter). In cases where countries appear to be greyed-out, data may be available for earlier years, and these can be selected by selecting a different start and end year in the ‘Time period’ filter. Users are recommended to select one country at a time to obtain a comprehensive overview of the distributional results for that country for a given period of time. Alternatively, you may select a specific item from the ‘Transaction’ or ‘Expenditure’ filter to make cross-country comparisons.
For more information on the (compilation of) these results, please see the
webpage on household distributional results .