According to data from Eurostat, food prices in the European Union were the highest in Luxembourg in 2024, while Estonia ranked ninth in price levels among the bloc’s 27 countries.
Eurostat noted that in Luxembourg, food prices stood at 126% of the EU average, followed by Denmark, Ireland, France, Malta and Austria.
Finland ranked seventh and Sweden eighth. Estonia placed ninth, with food prices at 105.3% of the EU average.
The cost of food in Belgium, Greece, Cyprus and Italy was only slightly lower than in Estonia.
In Latvia, food prices were at 103% of the EU average and in Lithuania at 99%.
Food was the cheapest in Romania, where it cost 75% of the EU average. Prices were also below 90% of the EU average in Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Czechia. (ERR)