Bulgarian households spend the significant 85.4% of their budget on basic goods.

Households in the country spend 35.3% of their income on food, beverages and tobacco, 37.7% on housing, 5% on transport and 3.1% on clothes and shoes.

Only Romanians spend a larger share of their income on the goods and services mentioned above – 85.9%.

The average for the EU countries is 73.5%.

The 37.7% of the budget which Bulgarian spend on housing is the largest percentage in EU, next is Luxembourg with 37.2%.

Housing also takes a relatively large part of household budgets in all countries across the EU, ranging from 36.1% in Great Britain and 35.5% in Sweden to 19.8% in Malta, the latter being the lowest.

Bulgarians, on the other hand, spend just 5% on transport, which is the lowest in the EU, while those in Malta spend 16.6% and in Luxembourg 16.2%.

CountryFood,beverages, TobaccoHousingEU2719,433,1Bulgaria35,337,7Belgium15,730,9Czech Republic23,526,8Denmark15,236Germany12,935Estonia25,335,1Ireland17,930,6Greece18,930,2Spain20,335France15,732,4Italy20,435,4Cyprus1727,5Latvia32,322,3Lithuania37,323,1Luxembourg1137,2Hungary26,224,1Malta2419,8Holland12,632Austria15,828,5Poland2836Portugal17,831,4Romania5019,4Slovenia19,128,8Slovakia30,128Finland15,132,3Sweden12,435,5Great Britain 12,336,1