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Annual National Accounts 2025

Personal Spending

Personal Consumption increases by 2.6%

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CSO statistical release, 02 July 2026, 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	Information & Communication	Recreation, Sport & Culture	Education Services	Restaurants & Accommodation Services	Insurance & Financial Services	Personal Care Miscellaneous Goods & Services
2025	14.1375755865651	5.353141437582	5.692470987425	36.7993869495769	6.0969663128891	6.8091820866	14.6757384340752	4.2447040591035	9.4665286573305	1.8621203376	25.2158401943529	7.8331970713	7.2781691494998

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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 2025. Of this total, Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels account for 25.7%, Restaurants & Hotels account for 17.6%, Transport accounts for 10.0%, while Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages account for 9.8%.

	Food & Non-alcoholic Beverages	Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco & Narcotics	Clothing & Footwear	Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas & Other Fuels	Furnishings, Household Equipment & Routine Maintenance	Health	Transport	Information & Communication	Recreation, Sport & Culture	Education Services	Restaurants & Accommodation Services	Insurance & Financial Services	Personal Care Miscellaneous Goods & Services
2024 - 2025	1.54153198498174	-1.8718187827121	-0.798104180889994	0.478224972836814	5.35928757206543	8.95314662998371	1.98746632015985	1.23997797659648	4.62099451925255	-0.453483110012289	5.86940218097564	-5.45389578666368	1.62212516979881

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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 2025. There was a large expenditure increase in Health which rose by 9.0%. Other areas which saw more modest increases include Restaurants & Accommodation Services which increased by 5.9% and Furnishings, Household Equipment & Routine Household which grew by 5.4%. Expenditure in some areas declined including Insurance & Financial Services which fell by 5.5% and Alcoholic Beverages, Tobacco & Narcotics which decreased by 1.9%.

	Personal Consumption of Goods & Services	Actual Individual Consumption
2017	125.1665149994	149.15415886141
2018	132.4235737258	157.330299134136
2019	136.330708477	162.778204794136
2020	123.2062323047	152.925362127984
2021	134.3890661198	165.912017734017
2022	148.9804058268	181.312113830923
2023	155.435330275	189.472503110028
2024	159.2308713359	194.7885083599
2025	163.349892232	199.976476660817

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Figure 10.3 shows a comparison of Personal Consumption Expenditure and Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices from 2017 to 2025.

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	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	10,283	11,041	11,992	13,313	13,923	14,578
CP011	Food	9,397	9,967	10,891	12,068	12,523	13,091
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	886	1,073	1,101	1,245	1,399	1,486
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	5,702	5,743	5,598	5,386	5,455	5,523
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	2,888	2,694	2,690	2,533	2,527	2,548
CP023	Tobacco	1,887	2,130	1,979	1,878	1,905	1,920
CP024	Narcotics	928	919	929	975	1,023	1,054
CP03	Clothing and footwear	3,640	4,902	5,466	5,378	5,738	5,688
CP031	Clothing	2,911	4,010	4,355	4,218	4,510	4,436
CP032	Footwear	730	892	1,111	1,160	1,228	1,252
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	26,157	27,806	32,413	35,785	36,624	38,083
CP041	Actual rental payments made for housing	5,437	5,706	6,394	6,992	7,483	7,945
CP042	Imputed rental payments for housing	16,458	17,268	18,988	20,871	22,294	23,674
CP043	Maintenance, repair and security of the dwelling	240	240	246	264	229	238
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	349	349	361	368	361	366
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	3,673	4,243	6,424	7,290	6,257	5,859
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	3,806	4,768	6,102	5,782	5,787	5,983
CP051	Furniture, furnishings, and loose carpets	1,057	1,611	2,257	2,127	2,054	2,174
CP052	Household textiles	394	494	536	477	498	518
CP053	Household appliances	451	566	619	602	629	720
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	195	220	240	241	245	249
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	234	292	316	302	301	340
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,475	1,586	2,134	2,031	2,060	1,982
CP06	Health	4,715	5,457	5,857	6,198	6,250	6,987
CP061	Medicines and health products	1,100	1,219	1,318	1,322	1,313	1,356
CP062	Outpatient care services	1,684	1,741	1,822	1,937	2,069	2,199
CP063	Inpatient care services	1,923	2,489	2,708	2,930	2,859	3,422
CP064	Other health services	8	8	8	9	9	10
CP07	Transport	10,016	10,189	12,913	14,040	14,390	14,804
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	3,833	3,706	3,723	4,438	4,704	4,924
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	4,449	4,962	6,755	6,429	6,540	6,763
CP073	Passenger transport services	1,641	1,426	2,335	3,058	3,004	2,964
CP074	Transport services for goods	94	95	100	115	141	154
CP08	Information and communication	3,385	3,681	3,977	4,079	4,193	4,314
CP081	Information and communication equipment	718	833	972	1,069	1,188	1,153
CP082	Software, excluding games	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP083	Information and communication services	2,666	2,847	3,005	3,010	3,004	3,160
CP09	Recreation, sport and culture	5,298	5,914	8,025	8,220	9,048	9,651
CP091	Recreational durables	32	44	43	50	46	47
CP092	Other recreational goods	835	1,088	1,502	1,312	1,545	1,625
CP093	Garden products and pets	18	19	21	23	24	24
CP094	Recreational services	2,590	2,803	3,411	3,590	3,970	4,219
CP095	Cultural goods	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP096	Cultural services	440	488	613	577	578	594
CP097	Newspapers, books and stationery	779	798	850	814	762	753
CP098	Package holidays	606	674	1,584	1,853	2,122	2,388
CP10	Education services	1,703	1,768	1,821	1,852	1,871	1,941
CP101	Early childhood and primary education	159	159	162	163	165	170
CP102	Secondary education	169	164	172	180	192	204
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	16	15	15	15	15	15
CP104	Tertiary education	1,284	1,363	1,425	1,448	1,450	1,504
CP105	Education not defined by level	75	67	47	47	48	47
CP11	Restaurants and accommodation services	8,787	12,617	17,902	21,415	23,818	26,075
CP111	Food and beverage serving services	7,686	10,950	15,577	19,500	21,491	23,166
CP112	Accommodation services	1,102	1,667	2,324	1,915	2,327	2,908
CP12	Insurance and financial services	4,091	4,824	4,168	6,476	8,285	7,227
CP121	Insurance	2,170	2,670	1,635	1,782	2,187	1,881
CP122	Financial services	1,921	2,154	2,533	4,694	6,098	5,346
CP13	Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services	4,764	5,406	6,487	6,791	7,162	7,301
CP131	Personal care	2,529	2,914	3,416	3,519	3,736	3,838
CP132	Other personal effects	797	929	1,217	1,509	1,571	1,602
CP133	Social protection	813	886	1,099	995	1,064	1,041
CP139	Other services	625	677	755	769	791	821
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	92,348	104,115	122,721	134,716	142,544	148,153
	Expenditure outside the State	2,123	1,965	7,411	9,495	9,490	9,529
	less Expenditure by non-residents	1,931	2,090	6,167	5,855	6,667	6,134
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	92,541	103,990	123,964	138,356	145,367	151,549
CP14	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	1,762	1,718	1,854	1,986	2,695	2,867
CP15	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	7,361	8,083	8,989	10,580	11,169	11,805
CP151	Government - Housing	1,002	1,162	1,713	2,620	2,554	2,202
CP152	Government - Health	4,970	5,247	5,421	5,730	6,084	6,904
CP153	Government - Recreation and Culture	2	1	0	0	0	0
CP154	Government - Education	877	1,058	1,155	1,358	1,564	1,596
CP155	Government - Social Protection	511	615	700	871	967	1,103
	158. Personal consumption of goods and services at current	101,664	113,790	134,807	150,922	159,231	166,221
	159. Taxes on personal income and wealth	36,118	42,572	48,201	51,329	54,990	58,277
	160. Total personal expenditure	137,782	156,363	183,008	202,251	214,221	224,498
	160.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	25,003	27,185	29,567	32,888	35,558	37,919
	160.2 Actual Individual Consumption at current market prices (= items 158 + 160.1)	126,668	140,975	164,373	183,810	194,789	204,140
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 2024)

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 2024)²							€ million
Coicop_code	Description	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025 ¹
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	12,391	13,285	13,508	13,631	13,923	14,138
CP011	Food	11,326	12,013	12,266	12,343	12,523	12,706
CP012	Non-alcoholic beverages	1,064	1,271	1,241	1,287	1,399	1,431
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	6,677	6,617	6,094	5,602	5,455	5,353
CP021	Alcoholic beverages	3,386	3,147	2,892	2,595	2,527	2,529
CP023	Tobacco	2,357	2,540	2,221	2,005	1,905	1,787
CP024	Narcotics	946	953	986	1,004	1,023	1,038
CP03	Clothing and footwear	3,496	4,859	5,301	5,046	5,738	5,692
CP031	Clothing	2,786	3,955	4,236	3,975	4,510	4,418
CP032	Footwear	710	903	1,066	1,071	1,228	1,274
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	35,163	35,753	35,876	36,163	36,624	36,799
CP041	Actual rental payments made for housing	6,955	7,098	7,232	7,356	7,483	7,609
CP042	Imputed rental payments for housing	21,314	21,678	21,516	21,912	22,294	22,703
CP043	Maintenance, repair and security of the dwelling	288	277	268	270	229	232
CP044	Water supply and miscellaneous services relating to the dwelling	365	364	373	375	361	360
CP045	Electricity, gas and other fuels	6,172	6,267	6,439	6,235	6,257	5,896
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	3,807	4,767	5,910	5,680	5,787	6,097
CP051	Furniture, furnishings, and loose carpets	1,053	1,592	2,159	2,090	2,054	2,199
CP052	Household textiles	327	433	501	454	498	541
CP053	Household appliances	535	637	650	600	629	714
CP054	Glassware, tableware and household utensils	193	219	239	236	245	255
CP055	Tools and equipment for house and garden	263	317	326	299	301	339
CP056	Goods and services for routine household maintenance	1,456	1,585	2,038	2,003	2,060	2,049
CP06	Health	4,876	5,528	5,915	6,265	6,250	6,809
CP061	Medicines and health products	1,121	1,264	1,399	1,362	1,313	1,335
CP062	Outpatient care services	1,894	1,905	1,946	1,992	2,069	2,146
CP063	Inpatient care services	1,899	2,376	2,578	2,901	2,859	3,318
CP064	Other health services	9	9	9	9	9	10
CP07	Transport	11,773	11,210	12,291	14,161	14,390	14,676
CP071	Purchase of vehicles	4,685	4,225	3,846	4,456	4,704	4,949
CP072	Operation of personal transport equipment	5,520	5,658	6,069	6,497	6,540	6,707
CP073	Passenger transport services	1,540	1,341	2,243	3,090	3,004	2,874
CP074	Transport services for goods	111	109	104	118	141	145
CP08	Information and communication	3,566	3,842	4,080	4,115	4,193	4,245
CP081	Information and communication equipment	736	835	993	1,072	1,188	1,123
CP082	Software, excluding games	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP083	Information and communication services	2,837	3,013	3,088	3,044	3,004	3,121
CP09	Recreation, sport and culture	6,188	6,836	9,068	8,552	9,048	9,467
CP091	Recreational durables	31	43	41	49	46	48
CP092	Other recreational goods	740	991	1,405	1,253	1,545	1,700
CP093	Garden products and pets	20	22	23	24	24	24
CP094	Recreational services	3,063	3,254	3,786	3,743	3,970	4,038
CP095	Cultural goods	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP096	Cultural services	485	540	676	607	578	586
CP097	Newspapers, books and stationery	813	830	869	816	762	730
CP098	Package holidays	962	1,010	2,298	2,081	2,122	2,338
CP10	Education services	1,532	1,590	1,703	1,882	1,871	1,862
CP101	Early childhood and primary education	164	163	166	165	165	163
CP102	Secondary education	178	172	186	188	192	195
CP103	Post-secondary non-tertiary education	14	14	14	15	15	15
CP104	Tertiary education	1,114	1,183	1,296	1,466	1,450	1,440
CP105	Education not defined by level	73	65	45	47	48	49
CP11	Restaurants and accommodation services	10,946	15,140	20,240	22,507	23,818	25,216
CP111	Food and beverage serving services	9,420	12,979	17,654	20,590	21,491	22,313
CP112	Accommodation services	1,535	2,180	2,580	1,930	2,327	2,903
CP12	Insurance and financial services	8,588	9,371	7,688	7,874	8,285	7,833
CP121	Insurance	2,523	2,977	1,779	1,835	2,187	1,812
CP122	Financial services	5,508	5,459	5,986	6,102	6,098	6,021
CP13	Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and services	4,615	5,343	6,623	6,772	7,162	7,278
CP131	Personal care	2,665	3,112	3,630	3,532	3,736	3,777
CP132	Other personal effects	616	798	1,268	1,497	1,571	1,617
CP133	Social protection	710	757	935	960	1,064	1,077
CP139	Other services	694	737	796	786	791	807
	Households Expenditure on Goods and Services in Ireland	111,747	122,678	134,159	138,257	142,544	145,465
	Expenditure outside the State	3,372	2,947	10,750	10,662	9,490	9,329
	less Expenditure by non-residents	2,396	2,476	6,690	6,108	6,667	5,926
	Total Expenditure of Households (National Concept)	113,675	124,364	137,985	142,688	145,367	148,868
CP14	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households (P31) (= Social transfers in kind to Households D63)	1,817	1,741	1,805	1,991	2,695	2,907
CP15	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via market producers D632)	7,738	8,367	9,302	10,777	11,169	11,574
CP151	Government - Housing	1,227	1,372	1,946	2,755	2,554	2,108
CP152	Government - Health	5,244	5,493	5,697	5,869	6,084	6,752
CP153	Government - Recreation and Culture	0	0	0	0	0	0
CP154	Government - Education	751	906	1,069	1,376	1,564	1,536
CP155	Government - Social Protection	514	580	611	802	967	1,179
	161. Personal consumption of goods and services at constant	123,206	134,389	148,980	155,435	159,231	163,350
	161.1 General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households (= Social transfers in kind via non-market production by Government D631)	29,671	31,485	32,332	34,035	35,558	36,627
	161.2 Actual Individual Consumption at constant market prices (= items 161 + 161.1)	152,925	165,912	181,312	189,473	194,789	199,976
¹ Preliminary
²Chain linked series not additive except for 2024 and 2025

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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	2020-2025	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	7.2	7.4	8.6	11.0	4.6	4.7
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	-0.6	0.7	-2.5	-3.8	1.3	1.2
CP03	Clothing and footwear	9.3	34.7	11.5	-1.6	6.7	-0.9
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	7.8	6.3	16.6	10.4	2.3	4.0
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	9.5	25.3	28.0	-5.3	0.1	3.4
CP06	Health	8.2	15.7	7.3	5.8	0.8	11.8
CP07	Transport	8.1	1.7	26.7	8.7	2.5	2.9
CP08	Information and communication	5.0	8.7	8.0	2.6	2.8	2.9
CP09	Recreation, sport and culture	12.7	11.6	35.7	2.4	10.1	6.7
CP10	Education services	2.7	3.9	3.0	1.7	1.0	3.8
CP11	Restaurants and accommodation services	24.3	43.6	41.9	19.6	11.2	9.5
CP12	Insurance and financial services	12.1	17.9	-13.6	55.4	27.9	-12.8
CP13	Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and serv	8.9	13.5	20.0	4.7	5.5	1.9
	Expenditure outside the State	35.0	-7.4	277.0	28.1	-0.0	0.4
	Expenditure by non-residents	26.0	8.3	195.0	-5.1	13.9	-8.0
CP14	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	10.2	-2.5	7.9	7.1	35.7	6.4
CP15	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	9.9	9.8	11.2	17.7	5.6	5.7
CP151	Government - Housing	17.1	16.0	47.4	53.0	-2.5	-13.8
CP152	Government - Health	6.8	5.6	3.3	5.7	6.2	13.5
CP153	Government - Recreation and Culture	-100.0	-63.2	-100.0	..	-100.0	..
CP154	Government - Education	12.7	20.7	9.2	17.6	15.1	2.0
CP155	Government - Social Protection	16.6	20.3	13.9	24.3	11.0	14.1
	Personal consumption of goods and services	10.3	11.9	18.5	12.0	5.5	4.4
.. 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	2020-2025	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023	2023-2024	2024-2025
CP01	Food and non-alcoholic beverages	2.7	7.2	1.7	0.9	2.1	1.5
CP02	Alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics	-4.3	-0.9	-7.9	-8.1	-2.6	-1.9
CP03	Clothing and footwear	10.2	39.0	9.1	-4.8	13.7	-0.8
CP04	Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels	0.9	1.7	0.3	0.8	1.3	0.5
CP05	Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance	9.9	25.2	24.0	-3.9	1.9	5.4
CP06	Health	6.9	13.4	7.0	5.9	-0.2	9.0
CP07	Transport	4.5	-4.8	9.6	15.2	1.6	2.0
CP08	Information and communication	3.5	7.8	6.2	0.9	1.9	1.2
CP09	Recreation, sport and culture	8.9	10.5	32.7	-5.7	5.8	4.6
CP10	Education services	4.0	3.8	7.1	10.5	-0.6	-0.5
CP11	Restaurants and accommodation services	18.2	38.3	33.7	11.2	5.8	5.9
CP12	Insurance and financial services	-1.8	9.1	-18.0	2.4	5.2	-5.5
CP13	Personal care, social protection and miscellaneous goods and serv	9.5	15.8	24.0	2.3	5.8	1.6
	Expenditure outside the State	22.6	-12.6	264.8	-0.8	-11.0	-1.7
	Expenditure by non-residents	19.9	3.3	170.2	-8.7	9.2	-11.1
CP14	Expenditure of NPISH on goods and services provided to households	9.9	-4.2	3.6	10.3	35.4	7.9
CP15	General Government expenditure on goods and services provided to Households	8.4	8.1	11.2	15.9	3.6	3.6
CP151	Government - Housing	11.4	11.8	41.9	41.5	-7.3	-17.4
CP152	Government - Health	5.2	4.7	3.7	3.0	3.7	11.0
CP153	Government - Recreation and Culture	..	..	..	..	..	..
CP154	Government - Education	15.4	20.7	18.0	28.7	13.7	-1.8
CP155	Government - Social Protection	18.0	12.7	5.4	31.3	20.6	21.9
	Personal consumption of goods and services	5.8	9.1	10.9	4.3	2.4	2.6
.. 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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Personal Consumption increases by 2.6%

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