France Personal Spending

Last Release

Jul 31, 2025

Actual

-0.3

Units In

0.4

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Sep 30, 2025

Time to Release

29 Days 5 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
35.3 May 2020	-18.9 Apr 2020	0.12 %	1980-2025	N/A

In France, household consumption refers to household expenditure on goods only, providing a short-term information of household consumption behavior relevant for economic analysis. Household consumption expenditure on goods accounted in 2010 for nearly 95 percent of total effective consumption in current euros and accounted for 50 percent of household consumption expenditure on goods and services.

Latest Updates

Household consumption in France fell by 0.3% month-on-month in July 2025, slightly worse than market expectations of a 0.2% drop and slipping from a downwardly revised 0.4% gain in the previous month. The latest figure also marked the first decline in household spending since March, driven by lower energy use (-1.7% vs +3.4% in June), as demand for petroleum products—particularly diesel—fell and electricity consumption eased after two months of strong growth. Meanwhile, spending on manufactured goods was broadly stable (0.4% vs 0.5%), while food consumption fell slightly (-0.1% vs -0.9%), as weaker demand for agricultural products was partly offset by a modest rebound in agri-food items.