Households in Nigeria spent a total of N2.02tn on fuel and electricity in 2019, the National Bureau of Statistics has said.
The NBS said in a new report on consumption expenditure pattern that household expenditure on fuel/light accounted for 11.57 per cent of the total non-food consumption expenditure in 2019.
Clothing, household goods, entertainment and water gulped N1.82tn, N1.14tn, N428.22bn and N192.60bn respectively, the report showed. “Of this total, 56.65 per cent of total household expenditure in 2019 was spent on food with the balance of about 43.35 per cent spent on non-food items,” the bureau said.
It said various foods consumed outside the home, starchy roots, tubers and plantains, rice, vegetables, fish and sea food, grains and flours were the top food items households spent on in 2019.
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