Compared to Q2/2023, the total monthly average income per person increased by 18.2%.
In Q2/2024, the total monthly average expenditure of the population stood at RON6,920 per household (RON2,760 per person) and accounted for 84.3% of the total income, higher by RON77 per household compared to the first quarter of 2024. Compared to the second quarter of 2023, the total monthly average expenditure per household increased by 15.9% and the total monthly average expenditure per person increased by 15.4%.In Q2/2024, the monthly average money income stood at RON7,637 per household (RON3,046 per person), higher by 2.2% compared to Q1/2024, and the in-kind income was RON574 monthly per household (RON229 per person), lower by 0.5% compared to Q1/2024.
Gross salaries and other salary rights amounted to RON5,567 monthly per household and were the most important source of total income (67.8% of the total household income, decreasing by 1.0 percentage points compared to Q1/2024). Significant contributions to the formation of the total household income were made by the income from social benefits, with RON1,563 monthly per household (19.0% in Q2/2024 and 19.3% in Q1/2024, respectively, of the total household income), and by the in-kind income (7.0% in Q2/2024 and 7.2% in Q1/2024, respectively), which consists of the value of the in-kind income obtained by employees and recipients of social benefits (1.7% in Q2/2024 and 1.3% in Q1/2024, respectively) and the value in lei of the food and non-food products consumed from own resources (5.3% in Q2/2024 and 5.9% in Q1/2024, respectively). As regards the area of residence, the level of the total monthly average income per household in Q2/2024 was RON9,202 in the urban area, 1.3 times more than in the rural area, and the income per person was RON3,868, 1.5 times more than in the rural area. In terms of the structure of the total income, in Q2/2024, in the urban area, the share of gross salaries and other salary rights in the total income was 74.0%, higher by 16.9 percentage points more than in the rural area, while, in the rural area, the income from social benefits accounted for 20.6%, higher by 2.5 percentage points than in the urban area. The share of the in-kind income was 12.1% in rural area, i.e. 3.0 times greater than in the urban area. In Q2/2024, the monthly average money expenditure was RON6,486 per household (RON2,587 per person), 1.8% higher than in Q1/2024. The equivalent value of the consumption of food and non-food products from own resources was, on average, RON434 monthly per household (RON173 per person) in Q2/2024, decreasing by 8.3% compared to Q1/2024. In Q2/2024, the main purposes of the expenditure incurred by households are consumption (money consumption expenditure and the equivalent value of the human consumption of food from own resources), with RON4,142 monthly per household (59.8%) and the transfers to public and private administration and to social insurance budgets in the form of taxes, contributions, dues,fees with RON2,308 per household (33.4%), as well as the meeting of needs related to household production (money production expenditure and the equivalent value of the fodder-related consumption from own resources) with RON162 per household (2.3%). Depending on the area of residence, there are differences in the level of the total monthly average expenditure. In the urban area, the monthly average expenditure per household was RON7,660, i.e. 1.3 times higher than in the rural area. Thus, one person from the urban area spent, on average, RON3,220 monthly, 1.4 times more than one person from the rural area. In terms of the structure of the total expenditure, in the urban area, the share of the expenditure on taxes, contributions, dues and fees in the total expenditure was 37.0%, i.e. 9.8 percentage points more than in the rural area, while, in the rural area, the share of the equivalent value of the consumption of food and non-food products from own resources in the total expenditure was 11.6%, i.e. 3.7 times higher than in the urban area. According to the standard Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose (COICOP), food and non-alcoholic beverages, amounting to RON1,455 per household, had a significant share in the total consumption expenditure of households (35.1%). These are followed, in terms of size, by the monthly expenditure on the dwelling, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, amounting to RON530 per household, with a share of 12.8% in the total monthly average consumption expenditure, by the expenditure on clothing and footwear, amounting to RON326 per household, with a share of 7.9% in the total monthly average consumption expenditure and by the expenditure on alcoholic beverages and tobacco, amounting to RON311 per household with a share of 7.5% in the total monthly average consumption expenditure. The lowest level of monthly expenditure was that incurred on education, with RON26 per household (0.6% of the total monthly average consumption expenditure).