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Food expenditure per person

USDA/ERS
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Food expenditure per person
USDA/ERS
Amount of money spend on food in a given year. This only includes food eaten at home, and does not include alcoholic beverages and tobacco.
Source
USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) (2023) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
March 26, 2024
Next expected update
March 2025
Date range
2018–2022
Unit
current US$

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This data is based on the following sources

Retrieved on
March 26, 2024
Retrieved from
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international-markets-u-s-trade/international-consumer-and-food-industry-trends/
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Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA/ERS) - Food expenditure (2023).

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USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) (2023) – processed by Our World in Data. “Food expenditure per person – USDA/ERS” [dataset]. USDA Economic Research Service (ERS), “Food expenditure” [original data]. Retrieved December 13, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-expenditure-per-person-per-year