Comparative Price Levels for Food, Beverages and Tobacco 2018

Of all the Food subcategories the price levels for Meat showed the greatest variation across the 37 European countries, see figure 7.1 below. The highest price levels were observed in Switzerland (128% above the EU28 average) and the lowest price levels were observed in North Macedonia and Montenegro (38% below the EU28 average). The Irish price levels were 5% above the EU28 average while prices in the United Kingdom were 5% below the EU28 average. We see less variation in prices across the Eurozone countries. The highest price levels were observed in Austria and the lowest prices were observed in Lithuania, 46% above and 29% below the EU28 average respectively, see table 7.1 below.

Of the 37 countries Ireland was the 14th most expensive and 9th most expensive of the Eurozone countries.