{"id":273764,"date":"2025-11-20T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273764\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:18:08","slug":"slight-increase-in-household-spending-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273764\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight increase in household spending in 2024 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024,<a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Household_final_consumption_expenditure_(HFCE)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> household final consumption expenditure<\/a> in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a>, corrected for inflation, grew by 1.5% compared with 2023. This increase was stronger than in 2023, when growth stood at 0.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Among the main categories, household spending on information and communication increased the most (+5.7%), followed by recreation, sport and culture and transport (both +3.0%). Expenditure on restaurants and accommodation services continued to grow (+1.6%), though at a noticeably slower pace than in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotics (-2.2%) and clothing and footwear (-0.6%), were the only categories to register a decline, confirming the downward trend observed last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/22591660\/household-consumption-expenditure-annual-change-2024.jpg\/445b1c3c-db02-6154-22e7-82b4f72a3d95?t=1763621590634\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Household expenditure by consumption purpose, corrected for inflation, EU  (% change between 2024-2023 and 2023-2022). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/household-consumption-expenditure-annual-change-2024.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/464a6430-4846-4515-a188-afaf16b30b20?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-11-18T07:45:40Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nama_10_cp18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, household final consumption expenditure in the EU, corrected for inflation, grew by 1.5% compared with 2023.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4535,1294,24959,2184,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-273764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-economy-and-finance","tag-gdp","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}