EU fact of the week
date: 21/06/2019
EU food prices range from 66% of the EU average in Romania to 130% in Denmark in 2018
In 2018, the price level of a comparable basket of food and non-alcoholic beverages across the EU was twice as high in the most expensive member state than in the cheapest one, the EU statistics body Eurostat announced on 20 June. Denmark had the highest price level for food and non-alcoholic beverages in the EU in 2018, at 130% of the EU average, followed by Luxembourg and Austria (both 125%), Ireland and Finland (both 120%) and Sweden (117%). At the opposite end of the scale, the lowest price levels were observed in Romania (66%), Poland (69%), Bulgaria (76%), Lithuania (82%), Czechia (84%) and Hungary (85%). The UK food prices were below the EU average at 94%.