Press release No. 112 of 15 March 2022
WIESBADEN - The consumption behaviour of households in Germany was strongly affected by the Covid-19 preventive measures also in 2021. To coincide with the World Consumer Rights Day on 15 March 2022, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that, based on the national accounts concepts, price adjusted household final consumption expenditure in the domestic territory was 0.2% lower in 2021 than in 2020 and thus down 5% from the pre-crisis level of 2019.
