The “map” of the most money we pay, but also the least allocated amounts, can say a lot about the priorities of the residents of each region. HotNews analyzed, according to Statistics, the costs of purchasing non-food products by development region in 2022.

In our approach, we excluded food and the costs of cigarettes (and other smoking items and accessories), which take up the largest part of the household budget. Data are from the INS Family Budget Survey.

You can hover over each country to see where the most money is going and which products are getting the smallest budgets

Below is the table as it appears in the INS data

As I said, in all regions tobacco costs have a very serious impact on the budget. Because households have limited resources, tobacco use forces them to spend less on other items such as clothing, education, and health care. This especially applies to low-income households, for whom the pressure on the budget is even greater.