France Personal Spending

Last Release

Mar 31, 2025

Actual

-1

Units In

-0.1

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

May 28, 2025

Time to Release

26 Days 6 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 dropped by 1% month-on-month in March 2025, following an upwardly revised 0.2% fall in February and missing market expectations of a 0.2% increase. This marks the steepest decline since December 2022, mainly due to a downturn in spending on engineered goods (-1.% vs +0.1% in February), driven by reduced purchases of durable goods (-1.9%) and, to a lesser extent, textile and clothing products (-0.3%). Consumption also declined for energy (-1.8% vs +0.3%) and food (-0.5% vs -0.8%). On a yearly basis, household spending fell by 1.5%—the largest drop since June 2024—following a 0.2% increase in February. Over the first quarter of 2025, household consumption of goods declined by 0.6%, after a 0.1% rise in the previous period.