We give food a quarter of income, just like 100 years ago. Only now I have overcome all the other Europeans
Every weekend, Ioana Alupulesei does her food shopping at her favorite supermarket. Then he complains that he gives too much money on the food, and then he throws it because he breaks into his fridge. Indeed, Romanians allocate the largest parts of all other Europeans on food. It's not new, 100 years ago it was the same.
The culmination is that even then about 30% of the income went on their mouths, even though the Romanians did not serve avocado juice for breakfast.
Of the press 100 years ago
“We did not have to forget that the needs of a ministry director are other than the premises at the post office. Everyone holds a position have social bonds that impose expenses; they had to be better dressed, they had to read a book, they had to attend a show, they had to keep a maid, their children had to go to school.
The salary being improper, the officials are forced to resort to the shipments, or live in misery, which harm them and harm the prestige of the authority they represent. It is considered by many that everything that is granted over minimum living in 3,000 lei is somewhat a luxury and that the needs could be cut out of everything that represents this plus.
The opinion is completely false, first that 3,000 lei does not cover the expenses for a family of four people, living in Bucharest, 3,000 lei only arrive for a single man, to pay a room, heat and food. The most humble family official, he had to live today, so that he could live in the capital of the country, 5,000 lei.
The capital has become a larger and more expensive city; the needs of life were multiplied and new indispensable expenses were added. Let's take the electric light: a few decades ago, lamp oil was sufficient, today electricity is imperiously charging the budget of a family, either as humble.
Who could make up the accusation of people, that they want to become more people? We consider that the minimum of existence is 5000 lei, even this salary being not only a sum of misery, with which a family composed of four people can live, today. Because we are particularly concerned about low salaries, we will make below the type budgets for family ticks, whose monthly income is 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 and 10,000 a month, and whose tasks are identical: wife and two children (possibly wife, a child and mother -in -law) ”” ”
The budget of a family with revenues of 5000 lei
Income: 5000 lei
Expenses
Rent 1200
Food 1500
Wood 700
Washed laundry 200
Light 120
Tram 200
Taxes 80
School for 2 children 200
Boots, clothing 500
Cigarettes, newspapers, magazines 200
The budget of a family with revenues of 9000 lei:
Income: 9000 lei
Expenses
Rent 2000
Food 2800
Lemne 1000
Washed laundry 200
Light 200
Tram 300
Taxes 200
School for 2 children 400
Boots, clothing 500
Cigarettes, newspapers, magazines 500
Toilet items 400
Source of information: Realitatea Realita Magazine
Where we are after 100 years
According to Eurostat, which calculates the share of various expenses for families in a person and two people, without children or with one or two children, Romania always comes out the first when it comes to food.
For the average family, the ranking is below:
Romania had the cheapest EU food in 2022, according to the data of the National Institute of Station (INS). I also had the cheapest furniture.
The lowest level of prices for consumer goods and services in the final consumption of population households, within the Member States, was registered in 2022 in Romania, being 42% lower than the EU average, followed by Bulgaria (41% below the EU average) and Poland (38% below the EU average).
The highest level was registered in Ireland (46% above the EU average), followed by Denmark (45% above the EU average), Luxembourg (37% above the EU average) and Finland (27% above the EU average).
The price level indications express how many units in the same currency are necessary to buy an identical volume of goods and services in different countries, for each group of goods and services.
In 2022, for the consumer goods and the services from the final consumption composition, 100 euros are paid at the European Union level, 146 euros in Ireland and 58 euros in Romania.
By citing Eurostat data, Ins says that Romania is the cheapest member state for the group “non -alcoholic foods and drinks” (72%) followed by Poland (73%) and at the opposite pole is Denmark and Luxembourg, having the highest level for this product group (121%).
Bulgaria records the lowest price level for groups “alcoholic beverages and tobacco” (66%), “clothing and footwear” (80%) and “home maintenance, water, gas and other fuels” (37%), followed by Poland, for the “alcoholic beverages”, “73%),” 73%” (40%).
Denmark has the highest price level for the products included in the “clothing and footwear” group (133%), and Ireland is the most expensive country in the EU products in the products in “Alcoholic and Tobacco Beverages” (216%) and “Housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels” (212%).
