Dataset
Annual food expenditure vs. total consumer expenditure
owid.food-expenditure-vs-gdp
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About
Amount of money spend on food in a given year. This only includes food eaten at home, and does not include alcoholic beverages and tobacco. Total consumer expenditure on goods and services per year. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: USDA Economic Research Service (2022); USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) (2023); USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Food expenditure – USDA/ERS” [dataset]. USDA Economic Research Service, “Food expenditure”; USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), “Food expenditure” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2017–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-03-26
- Units
- current US$
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-expenditure-vs-gdp
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| food_expenditure | number | Food expenditure (current US$) |
| consumer_expenditure | number | Total consumer expenditure (current US$) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |