National accounts - Base 2005
Last update: May 15, 2013
The final consumption expenditures are the expenditures actually carried out by the households, the general government and the non-profit institutions serving households in order to buy the goods and services used to satisfy the needs of individual and collective consumption.
The actual final consumption includes all the goods and services used by the households in order to satisfy their individual needs. These goods and services can be directly acquired by the households or provided by the general government and the non-profit institutions serving households.