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Household consumption by country
How much do households spend, compared with the economy?
Of the 131 countries compared in 2025, Somalia had the highest reading, 133.341%, and Ireland had the lowest reading, 25.215%. In the middle country the figure was 62.043%. Among the 68 countries measured in every edition since 1970, the middle one moved from 67.682% to 58.387%.
Share
Household consumption · 2025
Context statistic
Highest of 131Somalia
133.341%012025 · position · derived
The highest and the lowest
The three countries with the highest values of 131 compared, the three with the lowest, and the highest on each continent. This statistic has no better end, so no country is shown as leading.
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02Every measured country
Household consumption on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a higher value. This statistic has no better end, so the shades describe size, not success.
- 25.215–51.484%
- 51.846–57.929%
- 58.253–66.792%
- 66.976–76.409%
- 76.941–133.341%
- No reading in 2025 (59 measured in an earlier edition)
- Americas
69.983%
the middle country, of 17 measured · 48 members
Haiti95.180%
Canada55.783%Highest and lowest reading in Americas.
- Africa
68.572%
the middle country, of 44 measured · 55 members
Somalia133.341%
Libya30.937%Highest and lowest reading in Africa.
- Asia
58.356%
the middle country, of 28 measured · 52 members
Kyrgyzstan93.336%
Brunei29.313%Highest and lowest reading in Asia.
- Europe
55.068%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 49 members
Moldova86.515%
Ireland25.215%Highest and lowest reading in Europe.
- Oceania
2 of 21 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, Samoa.
Samoa72.770%
Australia51.855%Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
20 sub-regions, highest middle country first
- Central America
78.730%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Guatemala87.181%
Costa Rica63.996%Highest and lowest reading in Central America.
- Eastern Africa
70.094%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 19 members
Somalia133.341%
Tanzania50.540%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Asia
69.853%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
Nepal84.725%
Iran53.670%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.
- Northern Africa
69.437%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 6 members
Egypt93.358%Libya30.937%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.
- Western Africa
67.656%
the middle country, of 12 measured · 16 members
Gambia86.105%
Mauritania53.962%Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.
- South America
63.440%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 12 members
Colombia73.193%
Chile56.744%Highest and lowest reading in South America.
- Southern Europe
62.443%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members
Kosovo82.260%
Malta44.556%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
58.213%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Moldova86.515%
Czechia47.377%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Western Asia
57.986%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 19 members
Palestine90.609%
Saudi Arabia46.194%Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.
- South-eastern Asia
56.741%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 11 members
Philippines76.409%Brunei29.313%Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Middle Africa
55.107%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
São Tomé and Príncipe101.004%
Gabon37.919%Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.
- Western Europe
51.846%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
France54.106%
Luxembourg33.493%Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.
- Northern Europe
50.196%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
United Kingdom60.438%Ireland25.215%Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.
- Australia and New Zealand
1 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia.
Australia51.855%Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Caribbean
3 of 24 measured — too few for a middle: Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico.
Haiti95.180%
Dominican Republic67.846%Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.
- Central Asia
2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan.
Kyrgyzstan93.336%
Uzbekistan64.143%Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.
- Eastern Asia
4 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, South Korea.
Hong Kong66.211%
Macau30.118%Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Northern America
1 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada.
Canada55.783%Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa.
Samoa72.770%Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.
- Southern Africa
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa.
Lesotho96.761%
Botswana45.773%Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
131 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 62.043%; a quarter are above 72.035%, and a quarter below 52.951%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 190 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first. “=” marks a position shared with another country. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. Neither end of this table is the good end, and a high figure is genuinely ambiguous: it can describe a rich consumer economy or one that invests and exports almost nothing. A figure above 100% is not an error — it means consumption is being funded from aid or remittances rather than domestic output.
Showing 25 of 190 countries
Values for 2025. The change column compares 2025 with 2024 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.
051970–2025 · 56 reference years
Over time
Each point is one year from 1970. A rising share often means investment or exports shrinking rather than households spending more, because these are shares of a total that must sum to one.
- the middle country
- the middle half of countries
- the middle of the 68 countries measured every time
- each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
| Year | Countries | Middle country | Middle half | Measured every time |
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| 2025 | 131 | 62.043% | 52.951% – 72.035% | 58.387% |
| 2024 | 168 | 63.438% | 52.241% – 73.752% | 58.584% |
| 2023 | 172 | 62.539% | 51.686% – 73.511% | 60.475% |
| 2022 | 178 | 63.135% | 50.715% – 74.363% | 61.501% |
| 2021 | 178 | 62.054% | 51.175% – 73.862% | 60.164% |
| 2020 | 178 | 62.908% | 52.337% – 73.243% | 59.657% |
| 2019 | 177 | 63.463% | 52.016% – 71.407% | 61.273% |
| 2018 | 179 | 64.005% | 52.091% – 71.839% | 61.081% |
| 2017 | 179 | 63.034% | 52.602% – 71.882% | 60.255% |
| 2016 | 179 | 63.281% | 53.300% – 71.921% | 60.285% |
| 2015 | 180 | 63.680% | 53.450% – 72.684% | 61.235% |
| 2014 | 177 | 63.101% | 52.827% – 73.115% | 60.875% |
| 2013 | 176 | 63.448% | 52.766% – 75.136% | 60.119% |
| 2012 | 175 | 63.719% | 52.980% – 75.487% | 59.766% |
| 2011 | 176 | 62.214% | 52.142% – 74.131% | 60.219% |
| 2010 | 176 | 62.311% | 52.412% – 74.548% | 58.798% |
| 2009 | 175 | 62.978% | 53.547% – 76.423% | 60.512% |
| 2008 | 174 | 61.973% | 52.577% – 75.556% | 59.470% |
| 2007 | 173 | 61.566% | 51.596% – 74.855% | 59.693% |
| 2006 | 171 | 61.892% | 51.627% – 74.991% | 58.490% |
| 2005 | 170 | 62.782% | 52.833% – 73.615% | 58.672% |
| 2004 | 167 | 62.394% | 53.494% – 73.705% | 58.959% |
| 2003 | 166 | 63.035% | 54.084% – 73.882% | 60.749% |
| 2002 | 164 | 62.833% | 54.179% – 73.899% | 61.163% |
| 2001 | 159 | 64.147% | 54.020% – 74.361% | 62.293% |
| 2000 | 158 | 63.932% | 53.917% – 75.301% | 62.794% |
| 1999 | 153 | 64.680% | 53.651% – 75.033% | 63.212% |
| 1998 | 153 | 64.142% | 55.504% – 75.573% | 62.697% |
| 1997 | 151 | 63.874% | 54.184% – 73.688% | 62.539% |
| 1996 | 150 | 63.278% | 53.457% – 73.574% | 62.756% |
| 1995 | 151 | 63.201% | 53.653% – 73.026% | 62.928% |
| 1994 | 144 | 62.023% | 52.160% – 74.104% | 60.911% |
| 1993 | 141 | 62.023% | 53.658% – 73.477% | 61.851% |
| 1992 | 136 | 62.780% | 53.439% – 73.179% | 62.071% |
| 1991 | 135 | 62.488% | 54.128% – 72.430% | 62.447% |
| 1990 | 134 | 62.489% | 53.106% – 71.354% | 62.541% |
| 1989 | 120 | 62.570% | 53.921% – 69.814% | 60.599% |
| 1988 | 118 | 61.993% | 54.881% – 71.726% | 61.716% |
| 1987 | 118 | 62.582% | 55.986% – 70.657% | 62.173% |
| 1986 | 116 | 62.066% | 55.863% – 71.572% | 62.413% |
| 1985 | 115 | 61.455% | 55.544% – 72.786% | 60.404% |
| 1984 | 116 | 62.461% | 55.054% – 73.221% | 61.845% |
| 1983 | 117 | 63.291% | 55.309% – 73.873% | 62.924% |
| 1982 | 115 | 61.987% | 55.227% – 73.743% | 61.921% |
| 1981 | 114 | 62.207% | 55.262% – 72.324% | 61.579% |
| 1980 | 108 | 61.403% | 53.593% – 69.246% | 61.345% |
| 1979 | 101 | 62.514% | 54.551% – 70.764% | 61.002% |
| 1978 | 102 | 64.526% | 55.119% – 70.527% | 64.142% |
| 1977 | 102 | 63.646% | 55.512% – 72.071% | 64.550% |
| 1976 | 100 | 62.418% | 54.929% – 73.266% | 65.440% |
| 1975 | 97 | 64.499% | 54.805% – 72.990% | 65.785% |
| 1974 | 94 | 62.936% | 53.427% – 72.111% | 64.876% |
| 1973 | 93 | 63.928% | 54.166% – 70.938% | 64.362% |
| 1972 | 93 | 65.750% | 54.654% – 73.848% | 67.108% |
| 1971 | 93 | 66.415% | 55.372% – 75.308% | 68.204% |
| 1970 | 93 | 66.375% | 55.124% – 74.197% | 67.682% |
062024 → 2025
Who rose and fell
The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.
Rose most
before → after- Iran45.469% → 53.670% · 147th → 95th+8.200
- Egypt87.581% → 93.358% · 16th → 7th+5.777
- Kyrgyzstan87.927% → 93.336% · 15th → 8th+5.409
- São Tomé and Príncipe96.457% → 101.004% · 7th → 3rd+4.547
- Gabon33.494% → 37.919% · 162nd → 125th+4.425
Fell most
before → after
Nicaragua80.176% → 76.140% · 31st → 28th−4.036
Niger71.675% → 68.180% · 49th → 48th−3.495
Honduras85.556% → 82.138% · 20th → 17th−3.418
Burundi54.385% → 51.091% · 116th → 109th−3.295
Central African Republic97.863% → 94.599% · 6th → 6th−3.264
131 countries were measured in both 2024 and 2025. The field changed from 168 to 131 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.
07Across every edition
Household consumption in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading on record
171.651%
Household and NPISH final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)
Lowest reading on record
0.000%
Household and NPISH final consumption expenditure (% of GDP)
Biggest rise between editions
+71.279
94.225% → 165.504%
Biggest fall between editions
−60.092
60.092% → 0.000%
Biggest change since first measured
+56.236
77.105% → 133.341%
Highest most often
13 of 56
editions, alone at the first-listed end
08The measure
About household consumption
Household consumption is what households and the non-profit bodies serving them actually spend — food, housing, transport, everything — measured as a share of the whole economy. It is the largest single component of demand almost everywhere.
What the number is: Household and NPISH final consumption expenditure (% of GDP).
09Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Economy & Innovation and Money & Public Finance, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Economy & InnovationMoney & Public FinanceWhich statistics vote, and why
Moves with
Where household consumption is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Learning PovertyWorld Bank Group and UNESCO Institute for Statistics · 89 countries in commonρ 0.60
- Youth Not in Education, Employment or TrainingILO · 81 countries in commonρ 0.59
- Stillbirth RateUN IGME · 128 countries in commonρ 0.56
Moves against
Where household consumption is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Comprehensive Wealth per CapitaWorld Bank Group · 115 countries in commonρ −0.66
- Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower SecondaryUIS · 82 countries in commonρ −0.65
- Researchers per Million InhabitantsUIS · 99 countries in commonρ −0.63
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 336 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
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11Questions
Household consumption: questions and answers
Which country has the highest household consumption?
Somalia, at 133.341%, among the 131 countries compared in 2025.
Which country has the lowest household consumption?
Ireland, at 25.215%, among the 131 countries compared in 2025.
How many countries does the Household Consumption cover?
131 in 2025, and 190 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 93 to 180 between editions.
What is the world average household consumption?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 131 compared in 2025, the figure was 62.043%.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No. World Bank Group publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Household Consumption published?
This site holds 56 reference years, 1970–2025, all recalculated in World Bank Group’s 2026 report on one method — not 56 separate publications.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. Published by the World Bank via its indicator API (NE.CON.PRVT.ZS), compiled from countries’ own national accounts. Years before 1970 report fewer than 80 countries and are not imported. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
12Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Household Consumption — World Bank Group
Published by the World Bank via its indicator API (NE.CON.PRVT.ZS), compiled from countries’ own national accounts. Years before 1970 report fewer than 80 countries and are not imported.
Newest edition
Report year 2025Data year 2025
Cite the source as: World Bank. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-10.
How this page reads the numbers
- World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- This statistic has no better end, so the page describes higher and lower values and never calls a country a leader.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Household consumption by country: Household Consumption, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/household-consumption