{"id":"eu-food-price-levels","title":"EU Food Price Levels by Country (Eurostat)","description":"Comparative price level indices for food and non-alcoholic beverages across every EU member state, from Eurostat, expressed relative to the EU27 average (= 100). Shows where a typical food basket is most and least expensive in the EU, adjusted for purchasing power.","url":"https://geraeats.com/data/eu-food-price-levels","csvUrl":"https://geraeats.com/data/eu-food-price-levels/sample.csv","coverage":"European Union — all 27 member states","spatialCoverage":"European Union","temporalCoverage":"2024","rowCount":27,"rowUnit":"countries","provenance":{"source":"Eurostat — Purchasing power parities, price level indices and real expenditures (prc_ppp_ind), na_item=PLI_EU27_2020, ppp_cat=A0101 (Food and non-alcoholic beverages). Dataset last updated 2025-07-10.","sourceUrl":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/prc_ppp_ind/default/table","publisher":"Eurostat","licence":"European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU)","licenceUrl":"https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright","attribution":"Source: Eurostat (prc_ppp_ind), price level indices, EU27 = 100.","asOf":"2024","modified":null},"methodology":"Price level indices are taken verbatim from the Eurostat \"Purchasing power parities, price level indices and real expenditures\" table (prc_ppp_ind) for the food and non-alcoholic beverages category, with the EU27 average fixed at 100. No values are re-based, interpolated or estimated.","keyFigures":[{"label":"Most expensive","value":"Luxembourg","note":"index 124.8 (EU27 = 100)"},{"label":"Least expensive","value":"Romania","note":"index 75.5"},{"label":"EU27 baseline","value":"100"},{"label":"Member states","value":"27"}],"columns":[{"name":"country","description":"EU member state as published by Eurostat"},{"name":"priceLevelIndex","description":"Food & non-alcoholic beverages price level index (EU27 = 100)"},{"name":"period","description":"Reference year of the index"}],"sampleRows":[{"country":"Luxembourg","priceLevelIndex":124.8,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Denmark","priceLevelIndex":120.2,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Ireland","priceLevelIndex":114.5,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Malta","priceLevelIndex":112.2,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Austria","priceLevelIndex":110.5,"period":"2024"},{"country":"France","priceLevelIndex":110.1,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Finland","priceLevelIndex":109.8,"period":"2024"},{"country":"Sweden","priceLevelIndex":106.4,"period":"2024"}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraEats; cite the original publisher above."}