Percent of household consumption spent on fruit and vegetables (households living on less than $2.97 per person per day)

Calculation

Expenditure on fruit and vegetables divided by total expenditure, multiplied by 100 (restricted to households below $2.97/capita/day).

Definition

Proportion of household food and beverage expenditure that is spent on fruits and vegetables among households that report an income of less than $2.97 per person per day (in PPP$ terms). $2.97 is the threshold for the lowest consumption segment in the World Bank Global Consumption Database, defined as falling below the 50th percentile of the global distribution of income per capita. Data are obtained from nationally representative household expenditure or consumption surveys.

Relevance

Low-income households within countries are likely to devote less of their food budgets to fruit and vegetables, which are higher priced relative to starchy staples, as compared to higher-income households. In the event of price or income shocks, these households may be the most likely to shift their already low consumption of non-staple foods back to cheaper sources of calories.