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Personal Spending

Personal Consumption increases 2.9%

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CSO statistical release, 08 July 2025, 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
2024	13.9422287780816	4.968877635476	6.0975886165	36.0259469497	5.925782273275	6.2639924757	14.2167843814	3.018190801	10.231723308625	1.8341966584	22.5471867296424	15.7619134577

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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 in 2024. Of this total, Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels account for 25.6%, Restaurants & Hotels account for 16.0%, Transport accounts for 10.1%, while Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages account for 9.9%.

	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 - 2024	1.90697911411829	-2.2011078514146	13.4032713511388	0.728344216678487	2.41917488093761	-0.0576726109802242	4.19748258904532	0.283183585009714	3.37614811090018	-0.877288325241309	5.26928482604482	3.22547864341769

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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 2024. There was a large expenditure increase in Clothing & Footwear which rose by 13.4%. Other areas which saw more modest increases include Restaurants & Hotels which increased by 5.3% and Transport which grew by 4.2%. Expenditure in some areas fell including Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco and Narcotics which decreased by 2.2%.

	Personal Consumption of Goods & Services	Actual Individual Consumption
2016	118.8719176407	140.807488012382
2017	123.1416607559	146.093345823719
2018	130.2866632918	154.12147039522
2019	134.0375191247	159.419234819844
2020	121.5181282663	150.060759443457
2021	132.3598407015	162.62672691665
2022	146.6045258938	177.629999843581
2023	153.9261751442	186.7713641723
2024	158.4593955444	192.857272440803

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Figure 10.3 shows a comparison of Personal Consumption Expenditure and Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices from 2016 to 2024.

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	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	9,826	10,283	11,041	11,992	13,681	14,289
CP011	Food	8,897	9,397	9,967	10,891	12,436	12,950
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	929	886	1,073	1,101	1,246	1,339
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	5,087	5,657	5,653	5,422	5,081	5,165
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	2,186	2,888	2,694	2,690	2,533	2,530
CP022	Tobacco	1,996	1,841	2,041	1,803	1,573	1,612
CP023	Narcotics	906	928	919	929	975	1,023
CP03	Clothing and footwear	4,081	3,640	4,902	5,466	5,377	5,721
CP031	Clothing	3,314	2,911	4,010	4,355	4,218	4,494
CP032	Footwear	767	730	892	1,111	1,159	1,227
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	25,854	26,179	27,813	32,421	35,765	36,427
CP041	Actual rentals for housing	5,343	5,437	5,706	6,393	6,959	7,386
CP042	Imputed rentals for housing	16,291	16,457	17,267	18,987	20,859	22,270
CP043	Maintenance and repair of the dwelling	244	239	240	246	264	272
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	348	349	349	361	368	375
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	3,629	3,697	4,252	6,434	7,315	6,125
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	4,350	3,800	4,760	6,093	5,786	5,822
CP051	Furniture and furnishings, carpets and other floor coverings	1,353	1,057	1,611	2,257	2,127	2,172
CP052	Household textiles	440	394	494	536	477	514
CP053	Household appliances	397	451	566	619	612	597
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	188	195	220	240	241	246
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	199	234	292	317	302	280
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,773	1,469	1,578	2,124	2,025	2,014
CP06	Health	5,101	4,715	5,457	5,857	6,268	6,334
CP061	Medical products, appliances and equipment	1,007	1,100	1,219	1,318	1,398	1,412
CP062	Out-patient services	1,741	1,684	1,741	1,822	1,937	2,069
CP063	Hospital services	2,354	1,931	2,497	2,716	2,933	2,852
CP07	Transport	12,713	9,968	10,148	12,876	13,644	14,342
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	4,586	3,833	3,706	3,723	4,438	4,704
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	4,903	4,494	5,016	6,817	6,388	6,657
CP073	Transport services	3,224	1,642	1,426	2,335	2,818	2,981
CP08	Communications	2,422	2,592	2,793	2,955	3,010	3,051
CP081	Postal services	92	94	94	99	104	118
CP082	Telephone and telefax equipment	264	252	258	269	273	276
CP083	Telephone and telefax services	2,066	2,247	2,440	2,586	2,632	2,657
CP09	Recreation and culture	7,372	6,256	6,981	9,243	9,898	10,641
CP091	Audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment	418	481	588	715	716	716
CP092	Other major durables for recreation and culture	19	18	33	31	51	44
CP093	Other recreational items and equipment, gardens and pets	1,075	1,041	1,305	1,737	1,558	1,643
CP094	Recreational and cultural services	3,886	3,331	3,583	4,325	4,449	4,985
CP095	Newspapers, books and stationery	771	779	798	850	820	802
CP096	Package holidays	1,203	606	674	1,584	2,304	2,451
CP10	Education	1,667	1,703	1,765	1,816	1,850	1,872
CP101	Pre-primary and primary education	158	159	159	162	163	166
CP102	Secondary education	170	169	164	172	183	197
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	16	16	15	15	14	15
CP104	Tertiary education	1,239	1,285	1,359	1,420	1,444	1,449
CP105	Education not definable by level	84	75	67	47	46	46
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	15,149	8,787	12,572	17,822	21,419	23,701
CP111	Catering services	12,827	7,686	10,905	15,498	19,503	21,462
CP112	Accommodation services	2,323	1,102	1,667	2,324	1,915	2,239
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	8,609	9,285	10,816	11,575	15,269	18,541
CP121	Personal care	2,639	2,529	2,914	3,416	3,556	3,740
CP122	Prostitution	98	99	102	112	123	128
CP123	Personal effects n.e.c.	759	797	929	1,217	1,509	1,525
CP124	Social protection	1,005	830	907	1,123	1,022	1,095
CP125	Insurance	1,374	2,148	2,664	1,645	1,809	2,116
CP126	Financial services n.e.c.	2,188	2,357	2,725	3,418	6,603	9,273
CP127	Other services n.e.c.	548	526	575	644	646	663
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	102,234	92,866	104,700	123,537	137,048	145,907
	Expenditure outside the State	6,692	2,123	1,965	7,411	10,888	11,985
	less Expenditure by non-residents	5,066	1,931	2,090	6,167	6,223	6,468
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	103,859	93,059	104,576	124,781	141,712	151,424
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	1,788	1,762	1,718	1,854	1,986	2,695
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	6,774	7,280	8,003	8,827	10,229	10,629
CP141	Government - Housing	824	1,002	1,162	1,713	2,620	2,518
CP142	Government - Health	4,526	4,970	5,247	5,421	5,730	6,094
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	0	2	1	0	0	0
CP144	Government - Education	890	819	987	1,003	1,017	1,056
CP145	Government - Social Protection	534	488	606	691	861	960
	158. Personal consumption of goods and services at current market prices	112,422	102,101	114,296	135,461	153,926	164,748
	159. Taxes on personal income and wealth	37,324	36,118	42,572	48,201	51,329	54,994
	160. Total personal expenditure	149,746	138,218	156,868	183,663	205,255	219,742
	160.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	22,092	24,991	27,176	29,581	32,845	35,165
	160.2 Actual Individual Consumption at current market prices	134,514	127,092	141,472	165,043	186,771	199,912

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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 2023)

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 2023)²							€ million
Coicop_code	Description	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	11,500	12,107	12,980	13,197	13,681	13,942
CP011	Food	10,427	11,078	11,749	11,997	12,436	12,647
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	1,073	1,030	1,229	1,200	1,246	1,295
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	5,826	6,359	6,258	5,673	5,081	4,969
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	2,515	3,305	3,072	2,823	2,533	2,470
CP022	Tobacco	2,434	2,152	2,277	1,895	1,573	1,506
CP023	Narcotics	909	919	925	957	975	993
CP03	Clothing and footwear	4,022	3,727	5,178	5,650	5,377	6,098
CP031	Clothing	3,258	2,956	4,196	4,494	4,218	4,768
CP032	Footwear	763	770	978	1,155	1,159	1,329
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	33,944	34,826	35,388	35,511	35,765	36,026
CP041	Actual rentals for housing	6,500	6,612	6,747	6,875	6,959	7,022
CP042	Imputed rentals for housing	19,999	20,301	20,648	20,493	20,859	21,212
CP043	Maintenance and repair of the dwelling	292	281	270	261	264	266
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	359	358	357	366	368	368
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	6,628	7,257	7,336	7,538	7,315	7,158
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	4,258	3,871	4,848	6,010	5,786	5,926
CP051	Furniture and furnishings, carpets and other floor coverings	1,309	1,072	1,621	2,198	2,127	2,210
CP052	Household textiles	350	344	455	526	477	540
CP053	Household appliances	461	537	640	653	612	599
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	178	198	224	244	241	251
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	221	266	321	330	302	283
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,737	1,473	1,603	2,061	2,025	2,042
CP06	Health	5,359	4,826	5,471	5,854	6,268	6,264
CP061	Medical products, appliances and equipment	1,010	1,089	1,227	1,359	1,398	1,371
CP062	Out-patient services	1,971	1,842	1,852	1,892	1,937	2,012
CP063	Hospital services	2,411	1,926	2,408	2,613	2,933	2,881
CP07	Transport	14,678	11,594	11,047	12,129	13,644	14,217
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	5,685	4,666	4,208	3,830	4,438	4,685
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	5,899	5,521	5,667	6,082	6,388	6,579
CP073	Transport services	2,867	1,502	1,307	2,186	2,818	2,953
CP08	Communications	2,419	2,742	2,931	3,004	3,010	3,018
CP081	Postal services	107	107	105	100	104	115
CP082	Telephone and telefax equipment	273	271	274	276	273	273
CP083	Telephone and telefax services	2,044	2,366	2,553	2,628	2,632	2,630
CP09	Recreation and culture	8,345	6,989	7,714	10,028	9,898	10,232
CP091	Audio-visual, photographic and information processing equipment	429	484	576	728	716	716
CP092	Other major durables for recreation and culture	18	18	32	31	51	45
CP093	Other recreational items and equipment, gardens and pets	1,008	996	1,270	1,722	1,558	1,695
CP094	Recreational and cultural services	4,376	3,701	3,935	4,571	4,449	4,792
CP095	Newspapers, books and stationery	820	811	828	867	820	800
CP096	Package holidays	1,800	857	900	2,047	2,304	2,183
CP10	Education	1,604	1,589	1,645	1,728	1,850	1,834
CP101	Pre-primary and primary education	161	161	161	163	163	163
CP102	Secondary education	188	183	177	179	183	187
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	15	15	14	14	14	14
CP104	Tertiary education	1,171	1,170	1,238	1,329	1,444	1,423
CP105	Education not definable by level	72	64	57	45	46	46
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	18,178	10,416	14,355	19,173	21,419	22,547
CP111	Catering services	15,186	8,921	12,241	16,635	19,503	20,325
CP112	Accommodation services	3,089	1,523	2,163	2,560	1,915	2,222
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	11,974	12,511	13,977	14,741	15,269	15,762
CP121	Personal care	2,756	2,655	3,100	3,617	3,556	3,723
CP122	Prostitution	115	116	117	119	123	125
CP123	Personal effects n.e.c.	550	622	805	1,279	1,509	1,507
CP124	Social protection	927	749	801	988	1,022	1,136
CP125	Insurance	1,591	2,424	2,883	1,738	1,809	2,054
CP126	Financial services n.e.c.	6,094	5,778	5,595	6,317	6,603	6,568
CP127	Other services n.e.c.	596	564	605	660	646	648
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	121,579	110,647	121,265	132,590	137,048	140,834
	Expenditure outside the State	10,010	3,003	2,624	9,573	10,888	10,673
	less Expenditure by non-residents	6,091	2,297	2,373	6,414	6,223	6,201
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	125,070	112,159	122,500	135,882	141,712	145,307
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	1,857	1,812	1,737	1,799	1,986	2,690
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	7,251	7,534	8,156	8,987	10,229	10,463
CP141	Government - Housing	1,067	1,168	1,305	1,851	2,620	2,430
CP142	Government - Health	4,765	5,121	5,364	5,562	5,730	5,950
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP144	Government - Education	753	679	818	904	1,017	1,041
CP145	Government - Social Protection	607	532	621	654	861	1,042
	161. Personal consumption of goods and services at constant market prices	134,038	121,518	132,360	146,605	153,926	158,459
	161.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	25,452	28,452	30,197	31,032	32,845	34,398
	161.2 Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices	159,419	150,061	162,627	177,630	186,771	192,857
¹ Preliminary
²Chain linked series not additive except for 2023 and 2024

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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	2019-2024	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	7.8	4.6	7.4	8.6	14.1	4.4
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	0.3	11.2	-0.1	-4.1	-6.3	1.7
CP03	Clothing and footwear	7.0	-10.8	34.7	11.5	-1.6	6.4
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	7.1	1.3	6.2	16.6	10.3	1.9
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	6.0	-12.7	25.3	28.0	-5.0	0.6
CP06	Health	4.4	-7.6	15.7	7.3	7.0	1.1
CP07	Transport	2.4	-21.6	1.8	26.9	6.0	5.1
CP08	Communications	4.7	7.0	7.7	5.8	1.9	1.4
CP09	Recreation and culture	7.6	-15.1	11.6	32.4	7.1	7.5
CP10	Education	2.4	2.1	3.6	2.9	1.9	1.2
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	9.4	-42.0	43.1	41.8	20.2	10.7
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	16.6	7.8	16.5	7.0	31.9	21.4
	Expenditure outside the State	12.4	-68.3	-7.4	277.0	46.9	10.1
	Expenditure by non-residents	5.0	-61.9	8.3	195.0	0.9	3.9
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	8.5	-1.5	-2.5	7.9	7.1	35.7
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	9.4	7.5	9.9	10.3	15.9	3.9
CP141	Government - Housing	25.0	21.5	16.0	47.4	53.0	-3.9
CP142	Government - Health	6.1	9.8	5.6	3.3	5.7	6.4
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture¹	..	..	-63.2	-100.0	..	-100.0
CP144	Government - Education	3.5	-8.0	20.5	1.6	1.4	3.8
CP145	Government - Social Protection	12.4	-8.7	24.3	14.0	24.6	11.6
	Personal consumption of goods and services	7.9	-9.2	11.9	18.5	13.6	7.0
¹.. Percentage change calculations based on variables in money terms that have values of opposite sign in consecutive reference periods are not meaningful

Table 10.4 Annual Percentage Changes in the Main Constituents of Table 10.3							%
Coicop_code	Description	2019-2024	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	3.9	5.3	7.2	1.7	3.7	1.9
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	-3.1	9.1	-1.6	-9.4	-10.4	-2.2
CP03	Clothing and footwear	8.7	-7.3	39.0	9.1	-4.8	13.4
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	1.2	2.6	1.6	0.3	0.7	0.7
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	6.8	-9.1	25.2	24.0	-3.7	2.4
CP06	Health	3.2	-10.0	13.4	7.0	7.1	-0.1
CP07	Transport	-0.6	-21.0	-4.7	9.8	12.5	4.2
CP08	Communications	4.5	13.3	6.9	2.5	0.2	0.3
CP09	Recreation and culture	4.2	-16.3	10.4	30.0	-1.3	3.4
CP10	Education	2.7	-0.9	3.5	5.0	7.1	-0.9
CP11	Restaurants and hotels	4.4	-42.7	37.8	33.6	11.7	5.3
CP12	Miscellaneous goods and services	5.7	4.5	11.7	5.5	3.6	3.2
	Expenditure outside the State	1.3	-70.0	-12.6	264.8	13.7	-2.0
	Expenditure by non-residents	0.4	-62.3	3.3	170.2	-3.0	-0.4
CP13	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	7.7	-2.4	-4.1	3.6	10.4	35.5
CP14	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	7.6	3.9	8.3	10.2	13.8	2.3
CP141	Government - Housing	17.9	9.5	11.8	41.9	41.5	-7.3
CP142	Government - Health	4.5	7.5	4.7	3.7	3.0	3.8
CP143	Government - Recreation and Culture¹	..	..	..	..	..	..
CP144	Government - Education	6.7	-9.8	20.5	10.5	12.5	2.4
CP145	Government - Social Protection	11.4	-12.4	16.7	5.3	31.6	21.1
	Personal consumption of goods and services	3.4	-9.3	8.9	10.8	5.0	2.9
¹ .. Percentage change calculations based on variables in money terms that have values of opposite sign in consecutive reference periods are not meaningful

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