by public museums, concert halls, operas, swimming pools that is not financed by entrance fees, aid for social housing etc. By adding the general government's and NPISHs' individual consumption expenditure to household final consumption expenditure one receives the actual final consumption of households. Actual final consumption of households excludes the general government's collective consumption expenditure which is expenditure on goods and services that cannot be uniquely attributed to households (e.g. expenditure on defence, safety and order, home affairs, environmental protection, national bodies such as parliament, governments etc.). Data In the member states of the European Union the share of household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) in actual final consumption of households usually varies between 70% and 90%. The rest is goods and services consumed free of charge (or at reduced prices) transferred by governments and non-profit institutions serving households to households. A high government share in the provision of individual consumption goods and services is often found in countries known as welfare states. Countries with relatively large shares of such transfers in kind are Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden, where HFCE represents less than 80% of actual final consumption of households for most years. The above observations are based on data downloadable from Eurostat's website: Household final consumption expenditure per inhabitant in the EU Member States and Japan Actual individual consumption per inhabitant in European countries See also Consumer price index (CPI) Final consumption expenditure Government final consumption expenditure Inflation List of countries by household final consumption expenditure per capita List of largest consumer markets Personal consumption expenditures price index (PCEPI) Notes References Databases United Nations: National accounts main aggregates database (incl. household final consumption expenditure), worldwide Eurostat: National accounts data (including household final consumption expenditure), member states of the European Union and other countries Statistical publications on consumption in Europe Eurostat: GDP per capita, consumption per capita and comparative price levels, in: Statistics Explained, December 2009 Eurostat: Household consumption expenditure, in: Statistics in focus 2/2013 Eurostat: Large differences in GDP and consumption per inhabitant across Europe, Statistics in Focus, No. 95/2009 Further information: Eurostat: National accounts website F. Malherbe: Le site de la comptabilité nationale (in French language) National accounts Consumption (macroeconomics) Expenditure