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Average expenditure per household and person by major expenditure groups

Average expenditure per household and person by major expenditure groups Catalonia. 2025
By household Per person
Average annual expenditure 38,185 15,017
Food and non-alcoholic beverages 5,947 2,339
Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotic drugs 399 157
Clothing and footwear 1,615 635
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels 13,403 5,271
Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance 1,282 504
Health 1,374 540
Transport 4,324 1,700
Information and communication 1,199 472
Recreational activities, sport, and culture 1,914 753
Education services 922 363
Restaurants and accommodation services 2,977 1,171
Insurance and financial services 1,528 601
Personal care, social protection, and miscellaneous goods and services 1,300 511
Units: Euros.
Source: Idescat, based on the INE Household Budget Survey (base 2016).
Average expenditure per household and person by major expenditure groups Spain. 2025
By household Per person
Average annual expenditure 35,101 14,066
Food and non-alcoholic beverages 5,626 2,255
Alcoholic beverages, tobacco, and narcotic drugs 432 173
Clothing and footwear 1,416 567
Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels 11,665 4,674
Furnishings, household equipment and routine household maintenance 1,248 500
Health 1,413 566
Transport 4,020 1,611
Information and communication 1,079 432
Recreational activities, sport, and culture 1,772 710
Education services 570 229
Restaurants and accommodation services 3,282 1,315
Insurance and financial services 1,286 515
Personal care, social protection, and miscellaneous goods and services 1,293 518
Units: Euros.
Source: INE. Survey of Family Budgets.

Last update: October 28, 2026.

Methodological note

These statistics are conducted upon the basis of the Family Budget Survey carried out each year by the INE. Idescat processes this data in detail on a yearly basis, expanding the results for Catalonia.

Household expenditure consists of the entire flow of money that household economies devote to the acquisition of consumer items, plus supplies, self-consumption goods, or any salary in kind, despite these last items not implying any monetary flow.

The expenditure can be calculated per person in the household and unit of consumption in the household. In order to obtain the units of consumption we use the so-called equivalence scales, which turn household members into units of consumption. These equivalence scales are applied because economies of scale are generated when a household shares certain goods and services, which means that the needs of a household with n persons are sometimes lower than the needs of a household with just one person.

In this case we use the modified OECD scale, which gives the following values to each member of the household:

  • Main provider: 1
  • Adult other than 13: 0,5
  • Child 13 and under: 0,3

The total expenditure of a household is divided by the number of units of consumption in the household and we thus obtain the equivalent expenditure per unit of consumption. Each member of a household is assigned the equivalent expenditure of his or her household.

Expenditure is presented classified according to the Classification of the Functions of Individual Consumption (COICOP/HBS) until 2015. From 2016 onwards, the European Classification of the Functions of Individual Consumption (ECOICOP) is used. These two classifications are not entirely comparable.

From 2024 onwards, it has been included the new United Nations International Classification of Consumption known as COICOP 2018 (European Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose), which replaces the classification that had been used since 2016.

For further information about these statistics, you may check the methodology.