Food expenditure as a share of household consumption; percent, 2025 prelim.
Food accounted for 29.3 percent of household consumption expenditure nationwide in China in 2025. The rural Engel coefficient was 31.8 percent, compared with 28.3 percent for urban households. The rural rate exceeded the urban rate by 3.5 percentage points. The national value is a parent benchmark and the three percentages must not be added or treated as population shares.
Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics of China
Dataset/table: Engel coefficient of households, 2025
Units: percent
Date checked: 2026-07-18
Evidence: Supports China’s national, urban and rural Engel coefficients in 2025.
The Engel coefficient is the food-expenditure share of household consumption expenditure; it is not a direct measure of nutrition or food quantity.
Compares the official national, urban and rural Engel coefficients and treats the national value as a benchmark.
All three coefficients use the same NBS communiqué, year and percentage definition.
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