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This chapter presents distributional information on household consumption consistent with the Annual National Accounts.
Consumption is more equally distributed than income. Figure 2.1 shows that the top quintile consumed 1.7 times more than the bottom quintile in 2010. This value rose to 2.1 in 2015.
| Ratio of Quintile 5 to Quintile 1 | |
| 2010 | 1.70138306306454 |
| 2011 | 1.81427584969762 |
| 2012 | 1.82053232713094 |
| 2013 | 1.90159442789079 |
| 2014 | 1.96977437256444 |
| 2015 | 2.06012278831328 |
Figure 2.2 provides a breakdown of domestic final consumption expenditure per quintile over the period 2010-2015. The figure shows for example that Restaurants & Hotels and Transport become a larger share of expenditure for higher quintiles of the income distribution. While Housing & Energy and Food & Beverages become relatively less important for higher quintiles.
| Clothing & Footwear | Communications | Education | Food & Beverages | Furniture, equipment & maintenance | Health | Housing & Energy | Miscellaneous | Recreation & Culture | Restaurants & Hotels | Transport | |
| Quintile 1 | 4.21052501353482 | 3.2292210269507 | 2.03179973965786 | 19.252864774335 | 3.91050395011471 | 3.77757646521567 | 26.6581597701121 | 6.70228128102402 | 6.86471291173222 | 11.9559857357098 | 11.4063693316132 |
| Quintile 2 | 4.09111967231687 | 3.1619126004204 | 1.18806195011856 | 19.0358633180593 | 4.23422456663404 | 4.10999325383124 | 26.253668165995 | 6.97912225120222 | 7.33937217897799 | 12.0641393410287 | 11.5425227014157 |
| Quintile 3 | 4.04769119668551 | 2.91824782308806 | 1.72171305273103 | 16.8909679670883 | 4.47714627666752 | 4.30047220461612 | 24.0076113832746 | 7.85683046832411 | 7.64573789936343 | 13.4717271465446 | 12.6618545816167 |
| Quintile 4 | 3.80922376999425 | 2.70062922615167 | 2.0501794112919 | 14.961947112857 | 4.517053522224 | 5.49167704106001 | 21.4599305799481 | 8.43769967048512 | 7.29965258753109 | 15.7410097702646 | 13.5309973081923 |
| Quintile 5 | 3.93484640272379 | 2.52666912384847 | 1.93350803227929 | 12.3319141212962 | 4.63610437378751 | 6.38826210323978 | 20.0498684064473 | 9.21435073190429 | 7.35305712531005 | 18.1804803370466 | 13.4509392421167 |
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