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Annual National Accounts 2023

Personal Spending

Personal Consumption increases 4.8%

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CSO statistical publication, 12 July 2024, 11am

The following tables show a further breakdown of the Personal Consumption of goods and services items from Expenditure.

	Food & Non-Alcoholic Beverages	Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco & Narcotics	Clothing & Footwear	Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels	Furnishings, Household Equipment & Routine Maintenance	Health	Transport	Communications	Recreation & Culture	Education	Restaurants & Hotels	Miscellaneous Goods & Services
2023	10.6379385349784	5.169971918626	5.1804695686	32.6730912349	5.912780177225	6.2410540111	13.8159287072	2.9821019401	9.161903997675	1.933984572	20.4615921255956	12.8910156097

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Figure 10.1 shows the contributions of each of the different types of expenditure to the total Households Expenditure on Goods & Services in Ireland. Of this total, expenditure on Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels accounts for 26.4%, Restaurants & Hotels account for 15.7%, Transport accounts for 10.1%, while Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages accounts for 8.6%.

	Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages	Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco & Narcotics	Clothing & Footwear	Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels	Furnishings, Household Equipment & Routine Maintenance	Health	Transport	Communications	Recreation & Culture	Education	Restaurants & Hotels	Miscellaneous Goods & Services
2022 - 2023	0.0802368175472522	-7.54698821659211	-5.25712532045209	0.848840851478373	-3.15650841136518	7.40371222966793	11.4948282388669	0.202130377321539	2.32290327236589	6.52323094400389	6.13636409166571	12.1385293890217

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Figure 10.2 above shows the percentage change in each of the components of Households Expenditure on Goods & Services in Ireland in 2023. There was a large expenditure increase in Miscellaneous Goods & Services (up 12.1%) which captures, inter alia, goods for personal care, social protection and financial services. Other areas of expenditure which saw significant increases included Transport (up 11.5%) and Health (up 7.4%).

	Personal Consumption of Goods & Services	Actual Individual Consumption
2015	106.0258297316	126.109105530836
2016	110.5611107467	131.51489775553
2017	114.1971830479	136.114740622863
2018	120.1831246122	142.954681155388
2019	123.6150991747	148.010945682839
2020	111.9107114315	139.185173612295
2021	121.8173860412	150.692321937935
2022	134.8731720969	164.6506087471
2023	141.3394636749	172.599595517624

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Figure 10.3 shows a comparison of Personal Consumption Expenditure and Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices from 2015 to 2023.

Table 10.1 Consumption of Personal Income at Current Market Prices

Table 10.1 Consumption of Personal Income at Current Market Prices							€ million
Coicop_code	Description	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	8,925	9,303	9,585	10,083	10,629	11,683
CP011	Food	7,959	8,378	8,703	9,015	9,535	10,405
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	966	925	882	1,068	1,095	1,278
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	4,696	5,191	5,810	5,939	5,592	5,421
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	2,107	2,290	3,041	2,979	2,861	2,873
CP022	Tobacco	1,686	1,996	1,841	2,041	1,803	1,573
CP023	Narcotics	903	906	928	919	929	975
CP03	Clothing and footwear	3,871	4,082	3,642	4,904	5,468	5,355
CP031	Clothing	3,188	3,314	2,911	4,010	4,355	4,193
CP032	Footwear	683	769	731	894	1,113	1,162
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	24,686	25,832	26,156	27,745	32,398	35,793
CP041	Actual rentals for housing	4,981	5,343	5,437	5,696	6,393	6,967
CP042	Imputed rentals for housing	15,253	16,291	16,457	17,235	18,987	20,885
CP043	Maintenance and repair of the dwelling	226	218	207	202	201	216
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	341	341	341	339	357	364
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	3,885	3,640	3,714	4,272	6,459	7,361
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	4,215	4,358	3,809	4,771	6,106	5,838
CP051	Furniture and furnishings, carpets and other floor coverings	1,231	1,353	1,057	1,611	2,257	2,103
CP052	Household textiles	411	440	394	494	536	495
CP053	Household appliances	394	396	450	565	618	613
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	196	188	195	220	240	243
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	191	199	234	292	317	302
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,791	1,782	1,479	1,590	2,138	2,081
CP06	Health	4,818	5,088	4,693	5,424	5,811	6,226
CP061	Medical products, appliances and equipment	856	908	972	1,059	1,125	1,195
CP062	Out-patient services	1,661	1,741	1,684	1,741	1,822	1,939
CP063	Hospital services	2,301	2,439	2,037	2,624	2,864	3,092
CP07	Transport	12,101	12,443	9,627	9,736	12,392	13,121
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	4,314	4,586	3,833	3,706	3,723	4,438
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	4,597	4,600	4,109	4,548	6,264	5,740
CP073	Transport services	3,190	3,257	1,685	1,482	2,404	2,943
CP08	Communications	2,432	2,435	2,608	2,811	2,976	3,032
CP081	Postal services	102	103	107	110	118	124
CP082	Telephone and telefax equipment	275	266	254	261	273	276
CP083	Telephone and telefax services	2,055	2,066	2,247	2,440	2,586	2,632
CP09	Recreation and culture	6,994	7,081	5,913	6,586	8,954	9,931
CP091	Audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment	270	307	384	514	725	729
CP092	Other major durables for recreation and culture	11	19	18	33	31	20
CP093	Other recreational items and equipment, gardens and pets	1,300	1,045	1,003	1,257	1,680	1,626
CP094	Recreational and cultural services	3,698	3,819	3,234	3,451	4,149	4,254
CP095	Newspapers, books and stationery	712	759	763	777	932	988
CP096	Package holidays	1,003	1,133	512	554	1,436	2,314
CP10	Education	1,598	1,693	1,687	1,747	1,816	1,843
CP101	Pre-primary and primary education	157	160	162	163	167	168
CP102	Secondary education	185	188	188	186	194	203
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	15	14	14	13	12	12
CP104	Tertiary education	1,139	1,239	1,240	1,309	1,386	1,406
CP105	Education not definable by level	101	92	83	75	56	54
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	15,153	15,964	9,729	13,640	19,279	21,995
CP111	Catering services	13,066	13,641	8,627	11,973	16,954	20,071
CP112	Accommodation services	2,087	2,323	1,102	1,667	2,324	1,924
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	8,528	8,508	9,246	10,814	11,496	15,963
CP121	Personal care	2,674	2,548	2,413	2,773	3,249	3,445
CP122	Prostitution	96	98	99	102	112	123
CP123	Personal effects n.e.c.	625	759	797	929	1,217	1,577
CP124	Social protection	961	1,005	830	907	1,123	1,022
CP125	Insurance	1,706	1,364	2,174	2,698	1,687	2,615
CP126	Financial services n.e.c.	1,941	2,188	2,406	2,831	3,464	6,535
CP127	Other services n.e.c.	525	548	526	575	644	646
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	98,016	101,979	92,505	104,200	122,915	136,200
	Expenditure outside the State	5,904	6,708	2,145	1,993	7,444	10,805
	less Expenditure by non-residents	5,052	5,066	1,931	2,090	6,167	6,340
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	98,869	103,621	92,719	104,102	124,193	140,665
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	2,059	1,788	1,762	1,718	1,854	1,986
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	6,350	6,774	7,280	8,003	8,827	10,069
CP141	Government - Housing	650	824	1,002	1,162	1,713	2,545
CP142	Government - Health	4,325	4,526	4,970	5,247	5,421	5,643
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	0	0	2	1	0	0
CP144	Government - Education	856	890	819	987	1,003	1,012
CP145	Government - Social Protection	519	534	488	606	691	868
	158. Personal consumption of goods and services at current market prices	107,278	112,184	101,761	113,823	134,873	152,720
	159. Taxes on personal income and wealth	34,536	37,324	36,137	42,398	48,201	51,539
	160. Total personal expenditure	141,814	149,508	137,898	156,221	183,074	204,259
	160.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	20,132	22,211	25,123	27,239	29,777	32,778
	160.2 Actual Individual Consumption at current market prices	127,410	134,394	126,885	141,062	164,651	185,498
¹Preliminary

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Table 10.2 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 10.1

Table 10.3 Consumption of Personal Income (except Taxes on Personal Income and Wealth) at Constant Market Prices (chain linked annually and referenced to year 2022)

Table 10.3 Consumption of Personal Income (except Taxes on Personal Income and Wealth) at Constant Market Prices (chain linked annually and referenced to year 2022)²							€ million
Coicop_code	Description	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	9,441	9,899	10,256	10,772	10,629	10,638
CP011	Food	8,414	8,918	9,316	9,650	9,535	9,466
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	1,027	980	940	1,122	1,095	1,172
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	5,265	5,681	6,240	6,278	5,592	5,170
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	2,321	2,510	3,312	3,226	2,861	2,728
CP022	Tobacco	2,084	2,315	2,047	2,167	1,803	1,496
CP023	Narcotics	870	882	892	898	929	946
CP03	Clothing and footwear	3,633	3,892	3,607	5,012	5,468	5,180
CP031	Clothing	3,005	3,157	2,865	4,066	4,355	4,063
CP032	Footwear	628	735	742	943	1,113	1,117
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	31,059	30,974	31,779	32,239	32,398	32,673
CP041	Actual rentals for housing	5,935	6,045	6,149	6,264	6,393	6,480
CP042	Imputed rentals for housing	18,276	18,529	18,809	19,095	18,987	19,350
CP043	Maintenance and repair of the dwelling	262	245	230	215	201	203
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	350	348	345	343	357	359
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	6,244	5,673	6,219	6,290	6,459	6,281
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	4,035	4,325	3,935	4,926	6,106	5,913
CP051	Furniture and furnishings, carpets and other floor coverings	1,165	1,344	1,101	1,665	2,257	2,160
CP052	Household textiles	301	357	350	464	536	504
CP053	Household appliances	423	436	509	606	618	582
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	172	174	194	220	240	239
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	196	212	255	308	317	290
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,794	1,799	1,529	1,664	2,138	2,139
CP06	Health	5,106	5,362	4,817	5,446	5,811	6,241
CP061	Medical products, appliances and equipment	825	884	933	1,035	1,125	1,159
CP062	Out-patient services	1,847	1,898	1,774	1,784	1,822	1,867
CP063	Hospital services	2,453	2,597	2,113	2,630	2,864	3,215
CP07	Transport	14,778	15,189	11,836	11,224	12,392	13,816
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	5,181	5,526	4,536	4,090	3,723	4,314
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	6,242	6,216	5,664	5,772	6,264	6,406
CP073	Transport services	3,034	3,100	1,657	1,461	2,404	3,096
CP08	Communications	2,302	2,394	2,714	2,903	2,976	2,982
CP081	Postal services	119	118	121	122	118	122
CP082	Telephone and telefax equipment	272	269	267	270	273	270
CP083	Telephone and telefax services	1,916	2,011	2,327	2,511	2,586	2,590
CP09	Recreation and culture	7,307	7,362	6,071	6,704	8,954	9,162
CP091	Audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment	236	305	376	496	725	715
CP092	Other major durables for recreation and culture	10	18	18	32	31	20
CP093	Other recreational items and equipment, gardens and pets	1,129	983	964	1,233	1,680	1,651
CP094	Recreational and cultural services	4,075	4,080	3,406	3,592	4,149	4,029
CP095	Newspapers, books and stationery	773	785	772	784	932	956
CP096	Package holidays	1,175	1,311	561	573	1,436	1,791
CP10	Education	1,653	1,712	1,656	1,712	1,816	1,934
CP101	Pre-primary and primary education	161	163	164	164	167	167
CP102	Secondary education	199	198	195	192	194	195
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	16	14	14	13	12	13
CP104	Tertiary education	1,182	1,252	1,207	1,275	1,386	1,503
CP105	Education not definable by level	93	83	75	68	56	57
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	17,453	17,777	10,702	14,469	19,279	20,462
CP111	Catering services	14,900	15,031	9,328	12,530	16,954	18,715
CP112	Accommodation services	2,597	2,805	1,383	1,964	2,324	1,747
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	9,560	9,354	9,844	11,054	11,496	12,891
CP121	Personal care	2,564	2,495	2,381	2,781	3,249	3,255
CP122	Prostitution	106	108	109	110	112	116
CP123	Personal effects n.e.c.	465	552	625	808	1,217	1,470
CP124	Social protection	1,019	1,055	852	911	1,123	1,163
CP125	Insurance	1,936	1,495	2,323	2,764	1,687	2,476
CP126	Financial services n.e.c.	3,099	3,273	3,168	3,150	3,464	3,782
CP127	Other services n.e.c.	564	581	550	589	644	630
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	110,549	113,027	102,699	112,476	122,915	127,062
	Expenditure outside the State	6,919	7,767	2,348	2,060	7,444	8,364
	less Expenditure by non-residents	6,010	5,857	2,209	2,282	6,167	6,096
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	111,189	114,619	102,625	112,010	124,193	129,330
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	2,234	1,913	1,866	1,789	1,854	2,046
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	6,791	7,122	7,399	8,011	8,827	9,963
CP141	Government - Housing	865	987	1,080	1,207	1,713	2,424
CP142	Government - Health	4,456	4,644	4,990	5,227	5,421	5,499
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP144	Government - Education	816	836	754	908	1,003	1,123
CP145	Government - Social Protection	624	641	562	656	691	918
	161. Personal consumption of goods and services at constant market prices	120,183	123,615	111,911	121,817	134,873	141,339
	161.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	22,756	24,387	27,251	28,859	29,777	31,260
	161.2 Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices	142,955	148,011	139,185	150,692	164,651	172,600
¹ Preliminary
²Chain linked series not additive except for 2022 and 2023

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Table 10.4 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 10.3

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Table 10.2 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 10.1							%
Coicop_code	Description	2018-2023	2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	5.5	4.2	3.0	5.2	5.4	9.9
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	2.9	10.6	11.9	2.2	-5.8	-3.1
CP03	Clothing and footwear	6.7	5.5	-10.8	34.7	11.5	-2.1
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	7.7	4.6	1.3	6.1	16.8	10.5
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	6.7	3.4	-12.6	25.3	28.0	-4.4
CP06	Health	5.3	5.6	-7.8	15.6	7.1	7.1
CP07	Transport	1.6	2.8	-22.6	1.1	27.3	5.9
CP08	Communications	4.5	0.1	7.1	7.8	5.9	1.9
CP09	Recreation and culture	7.3	1.2	-16.5	11.4	36.0	10.9
CP10	Education	2.9	6.0	-0.4	3.5	3.9	1.5
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	7.7	5.4	-39.1	40.2	41.3	14.1
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	13.4	-0.2	8.7	17.0	6.3	38.9
	Expenditure outside the State	12.8	13.6	-68.0	-7.1	273.6	45.1
	Expenditure by non-residents	4.6	0.3	-61.9	8.3	195.0	2.8
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	-0.7	-13.1	-1.5	-2.5	7.9	7.1
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	9.7	6.7	7.5	9.9	10.3	14.1
CP141	Government - Housing	31.4	26.8	21.5	16.0	47.4	48.6
CP142	Government - Health	5.5	4.7	9.8	5.6	3.3	4.1
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	..	..	..	-63.2	-100.0	..
CP144	Government - Education	3.4	4.0	-8.0	20.5	1.6	1.0
CP145	Government - Social Protection	10.8	2.8	-8.7	24.3	14.0	25.7
	Personal consumption of goods and services	7.3	4.6	-9.3	11.9	18.5	13.2

Table 10.4 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 10.3							%
Coicop_code	Description	2018-2023	2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	2.4	4.9	3.6	5.0	-1.3	0.1
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	-0.4	7.9	9.8	0.6	-10.9	-7.5
CP03	Clothing and footwear	7.4	7.1	-7.3	38.9	9.1	-5.3
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	1.0	-0.3	2.6	1.4	0.5	0.8
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	7.9	7.2	-9.0	25.2	23.9	-3.2
CP06	Health	4.1	5.0	-10.2	13.1	6.7	7.4
CP07	Transport	-1.3	2.8	-22.1	-5.2	10.4	11.5
CP08	Communications	5.3	4.0	13.4	7.0	2.5	0.2
CP09	Recreation and culture	4.6	0.7	-17.5	10.4	33.6	2.3
CP10	Education	3.2	3.6	-3.3	3.4	6.0	6.5
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	3.2	1.9	-39.8	35.2	33.2	6.1
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	6.2	-2.2	5.2	12.3	4.0	12.1
	Expenditure outside the State	3.9	12.3	-69.8	-12.3	261.4	12.4
	Expenditure by non-residents	0.3	-2.5	-62.3	3.3	170.2	-1.2
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	-1.7	-14.4	-2.4	-4.1	3.6	10.4
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	8.0	4.9	3.9	8.3	10.2	12.9
CP141	Government - Housing	22.9	14.1	9.5	11.8	41.9	41.5
CP142	Government - Health	4.3	4.2	7.5	4.7	3.7	1.4
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	..	..	..	..	..	..
CP144	Government - Education	6.6	2.4	-9.8	20.5	10.4	12.0
CP145	Government - Social Protection	8.0	2.8	-12.4	16.8	5.3	32.8
	Personal consumption of goods and services	3.3	2.9	-9.5	8.9	10.7	4.8

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