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Doesn't seem so out of line except for several items:
1) 2005 data. A significant part of the US housing bubble was after this
2) The US has much more land per person than most European nations...9x that of Germany for example
3) Transportation costs also exclude the runup in oil prices since 2007
4) Health care is the main outlier
http://www.worldsalaries.org/persona...enditure.shtml
1) 2005 data. A significant part of the US housing bubble was after this
2) The US has much more land per person than most European nations...9x that of Germany for example
3) Transportation costs also exclude the runup in oil prices since 2007
4) Health care is the main outlier
http://www.worldsalaries.org/persona...enditure.shtml
| Annual Personal Consumption Expenditure in Constant 2005 International Dollars | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Source | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15,816 | 1,068 | 6.75% | 6,072 | 38.39% | 2,543 | 16.08% | 754 | 4.77% | 372 | 2.35% | 3,336 | 21.09% | U.S. Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey, 2005, [19]. | |||||||||
| 15,094 | 575 | 3.81% | 5,613 | 37.19% | 2,271 | 15.05% | 823 | 5.45% | 387 | 2.56% | 2,886 | 19.12% | Survey of Household Spending in Canada, 2005, [5]. | |||||||||
| 14,868 | 579 | 3.89% | 5,632 | 37.88% | 2,752 | 18.51% | 767 | 5.16% | 136 | 0.91% | 2,012 | 13.53% | Germany Household Income and Expenditure Survey, 2003, [8]. | |||||||||
| 14,786 | 168 | 1.14% | 5,162 | 34.91% | 2,802 | 18.95% | 802 | 5.42% | 223 | 1.51% | 2,463 | 16.66% | UK Family Expenditure Survey, 2005, [21]. | |||||||||
| 14,763 | 979 | 6.63% | 4,788 | 32.43% | 3,414 | 23.13% | 663 | 4.49% | 112 | 0.76% | 1,764 | 11.95% | Enquête sur les Revenus et la Consommation, 2004, [35]. | |||||||||
| 14,530 | 492 | 3.39% | 3,484 | 23.98% | 3,053 | 21.01% | 913 | 6.28% | 53 | 0.36% | 2,973 | 20.46% | Norway Survey of Consumption Expenditure, 2005, [22]. | |||||||||
| 14,036 | 724 | 5.16% | 4,240 | 30.21% | 2,429 | 17.31% | 557 | 3.97% | 0.00% | 2,217 | 15.80% | Australia Household Expenditure Survey, 2004, [16]. | ||||||||||
| 13,282 | 474 | 3.57% | 4,571 | 34.41% | 2,299 | 17.31% | 904 | 6.81% | 563 | 4.24% | 2,223 | 16.74% | 2000 Family Income and Expenditure Survey, 2000, [27]. | |||||||||
| 12,880 | 458 | 3.56% | 4,330 | 33.62% | 2,285 | 17.74% | 441 | 3.42% | 23 | 0.18% | 1,892 | 14.69% | Finland Household Budget Survey, 2002, [24]. | |||||||||
| 12,789 | 460 | 3.60% | 2,976 | 23.27% | 2,706 | 21.16% | 815 | 6.37% | 116 | 0.91% | 2,368 | 18.52% | Austria Household Budget Survey, 2005, [25]. | |||||||||
| 12,668 | 704 | 5.56% | 2,647 | 20.90% | 2,364 | 18.66% | 719 | 5.68% | 120 | 0.95% | 1,958 | 15.46% | Enquête sur les budgets des ménages, 2001, [9]. | |||||||||
| 12,403 | 315 | 2.54% | 3,814 | 30.75% | 2,081 | 16.78% | 834 | 6.72% | 49 | 0.40% | 2,717 | 21.91% | Sweden Household Budget Survey, 2005, [23]. | |||||||||
| 12,069 | 542 | 4.49% | 2,758 | 22.85% | 2,901 | 24.04% | 802 | 6.65% | 55 | 0.46% | 1,938 | 16.06% | France Enquête budget des familles, 2001, [36]. | |||||||||
| 11,524 | 378 | 3.28% | 4,551 | 39.49% | 1,978 | 17.16% | 421 | 3.65% | 275 | 2.39% | 1,967 | 17.07% | New Zealand Household Economic Survey, 2004, [26]. | |||||||||
| 10,727 | 1,581 | 14.74% | 2,110 | 19.67% | 2,575 | 24.00% | 401 | 3.74% | 0.00% | 1,481 | 13.81% | Survey of Family Income and Expenditure in Taiwan, 2005, [10]. | ||||||||||
| 10,683 | 530 | 4.96% | 3,866 | 36.19% | 1,741 | 16.30% | 412 | 3.86% | 0.00% | 2,178 | 20.39% | Israel Household Expenditure Survey and Income Survey, 2004, [11]. | ||||||||||
| 9,806 | 242 | 2.47% | 4,081 | 41.62% | 2,082 | 21.23% | 832 | 8.48% | 0.00% | 1,219 | 12.43% | Encuesta Continua de Presupuestos Familiares, 2002, [9]. | ||||||||||
| 9,632 | 400 | 4.15% | 1,707 | 17.72% | 2,188 | 22.72% | 421 | 4.37% | 328 | 3.41% | 1,255 | 13.03% | Japan Statistical Yearbook,, 2005, [17]. | |||||||||
| 9,057 | 288 | 3.18% | 2,009 | 22.18% | 1,248 | 13.78% | 508 | 5.61% | 416 | 4.59% | 1,040 | 11.48% | Hong Kong Household Expenditure Survey, 2000, [9]. | |||||||||
| 8,927 | 476 | 5.33% | 1,117 | 12.51% | 2,362 | 26.46% | 428 | 4.79% | 904 | 10.13% | 1,476 | 16.53% | Korean National Statistical Office, 2005 urban+rural, [28]. | |||||||||
| 8,001 | 459 | 5.74% | 947 | 11.84% | 1,934 | 24.17% | 326 | 4.07% | 711 | 8.89% | 1,941 | 24.26% | Singapore Household Expenditure Survey, 2003, [20]. | |||||||||
| 5,237 | 188 | 3.59% | 947 | 18.08% | 1,696 | 32.38% | 394 | 7.52% | 83 | 1.58% | 561 | 10.71% | Household Budget Survey, 2003, [9]. | |||||||||
| 5,011 | 103 | 2.06% | 1,290 | 25.74% | 1,290 | 25.74% | 368 | 7.34% | 32 | 0.64% | 451 | 9.00% | Household Budget Survey, 2003, [9]. | |||||||||
| 4,679 | 187 | 4.00% | 1,095 | 23.40% | 1,376 | 29.41% | 257 | 5.49% | 37 | 0.79% | 547 | 11.69% | Household Budget Survey, 2005, [9]. | |||||||||
| 4,637 | 302 | 6.51% | 1,646 | 35.50% | 962 | 20.75% | 263 | 5.67% | 189 | 4.08% | 854 | 18.42% | Pesquisa de Orcamentos Familiares, 2003, [29]. | |||||||||
| 4,390 | 190 | 4.33% | 815 | 18.56% | 1,354 | 30.84% | 425 | 9.68% | 57 | 1.30% | 428 | 9.75% | Statistics Lithuania, 2005, [33]. | |||||||||
| 4,107 | 202 | 4.92% | 1,090 | 26.54% | 1,335 | 32.51% | 223 | 5.43% | 69 | 1.68% | 377 | 9.18% | Household Budget Survey, 2003, [9]. | |||||||||
| 3,034 | 87 | 2.87% | 484 | 15.95% | 827 | 27.26% | 166 | 5.47% | 264 | 8.70% | 397 | 13.09% | Encuesta National de Ingresos y Gastros de los Hogares, 2002, [9]. | |||||||||
| 2,565 | 76 | 2.96% | 657 | 25.61% | 954 | 37.19% | 94 | 3.66% | 73 | 2.85% | 461 | 17.97% | Thailand Household Economic Survey, 2001, [37]. | |||||||||
| 2,292 | 159 | 6.94% | 440 | 19.20% | 932 | 40.66% | 191 | 8.33% | 0.00% | 249 | 10.86% | China Statistical Yearbook, 2004 rural+urban, [30]. | ||||||||||
| 2,130 | 48 | 2.25% | 562 | 26.38% | 928 | 43.57% | 63 | 2.96% | 87 | 4.08% | 161 | 7.56% | Family Income and Expenditure Survey, 2003, [34]. | |||||||||