Informations Rapides · 28 March 2025 · n° 83

Household consumption of goods decreased again in February 2025 (-0.1%) Household consumption expenditure on goods - February 2025

In February 2025, household consumption expenditures on goods decreased again over a month (‑0.1% in volume* after ‑0.6% in January 2025 – revised data). This decrease is driven by the downturn in food consumption (‑0.7%). Conversely, engineered goods consumption increased slightly (+0.2%), as did energy consumption (+0.2%).

In February 2025, household food consumption fell back (‑0.7% after +1.0% in January 2025 – revised data) due to the fall in agri-food products consumption. Agricultural products consumption (unprocessed products) rebounded slightly. Food consumption was 1.8% lower than in February 2024.

Tobacco consumption kept decreasing sharply.

In February 2025, household energy expenditures increased slightly (+0.2% after being stable in January 2025 – revised data), mainly due to the increase in purchases of refined products (+1.0% after +0.1%). Spending on energy excluding refined products (especially on electricity) was, however, down slightly this month (-0.4% after -0.2%).

In February 2025, household consumption of engineered goods rebounded slightly (+0.2% after ‑2.4% in January 2025) mainly due to the rise in purchases of durable goods (+0.4%), and textile-clothing (+0.5%).

In February 2025, consumption of durable goods rebounded slightly (+0.4% after ‑3.8% in January 2025 – revised data). This growth is explained by the limited rebound in purchases of transport equipments (+0.9% after ‑6.3% in January 2025 – revised data), especially new cars.

In February 2025, spending on clothing and textiles rebounded slightly (+0.5% after ‑2.0% in January 2025 – revised data). This increase is mainly explained by a rise in spending on clothing.

In February 2025, consumption of “other manufactured goods” decreased again (‑0.2% after ‑0.2% in January 2025 – revised data). This decrease is mainly driven by the drop in purchases of medical goods.

The monthly change in total household consumption of goods for January 2025 has been revised downwards by 0.1 points to ‑0.6%, instead of ‑0.5%. Since the previous publication, new information has been incorporated and the coefficients for seasonal adjustments (SA) and working day adjustment (WDA) have been updated.