| Insurance And Other Consumer Expenditures As A Percent Of Total Household Spending, 1990-2017 (1) |
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1990 |
1995 |
2000 |
2005 |
2010 |
2015 |
2016 |
2017 |
| Housing |
30.0% |
31.7% |
31.7% |
31.9% |
33.7% |
32.1% |
32.1% |
32.3% |
| Transportation |
15.9 |
16.4 |
17.5 |
16.0 |
13.9 |
15.0 |
15.8 |
14.3 |
| Food |
15.0 |
14.0 |
13.6 |
12.8 |
12.7 |
12.5 |
12.6 |
12.9 |
| Retirement (2) |
8.8 |
8.0 |
7.8 |
10.4 |
10.5 |
10.7 |
11.4 |
10.6 |
| Other |
10.6 |
10.2 |
10.5 |
10.4 |
10.4 |
10.1 |
8.5 |
10.2 |
| Total insurance |
5.8 |
6.8 |
6.3 |
6.5 |
7.3 |
8.7 |
8.9 |
8.8 |
| Health |
2.0 |
2.7 |
2.6 |
2.9 |
3.8 |
5.3 |
5.5 |
5.7 |
| Vehicle |
2.0 |
2.2 |
2.0 |
2.0 |
2.1 |
1.9 |
2.0 |
1.6 |
| Homeowners (3) |
0.5 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
0.7 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
0.8 |
| Life |
1.2 |
1.1 |
1.0 |
0.8 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
0.5 |
0.6 |
| Other |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
0.1 |
(4) |
(4) |
(4) |
0.1 |
| Entertainment |
5.0 |
5.0 |
4.9 |
5.1 |
5.2 |
5.1 |
5.1 |
5.3 |
| Clothing |
5.7 |
5.3 |
4.9 |
4.1 |
3.5 |
3.3 |
3.1 |
3.1 |
| Healthcare |
3.1 |
2.7 |
2.8 |
2.8 |
2.8 |
2.4 |
2.5 |
2.5 |
(1) Ranked by 2017 expenditures.
(2) Mostly payroll deductions for retirement purposes such as Social Security (74% of retirement expenditures), government and private pension plans (12%) and nonpayroll deposits such as IRAs (14%) in 2017.
(3) Includes tenants.
(4) Less than 0.1 percent.
Note: Percentages may not add to 100 percent due to rounding.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
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