Share of sporting expenditure on equipment for sport, camping and open-air recreation
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European Union · 2020
Share of sporting expenditure on equipment for sport, camping and open-air recreation in the European Union was 15.6% in 2020 (Eurostat).
- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- On average, EU households allocated about two thirds of their expenditure on sporting goods and services to recreational and sporting services
- Retrieved
- 21 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
In 2020, on average 67% of EU household expenditure on sporting goods and services went on recreational and sporting services, 15.6% on equipment for sport, camping and open-air recreation, 14.4% on major durables for outdoor recreation and 2.1% on maintenance and repair of other major durables for recreation and culture, leaving the remaining 0.9% for major durables for indoor recreation.
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APA
Statistical Office of the European Union. (2020). Household expenditure on sporting goods and services. Retrieved September 21, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Household_expenditure_on_sporting_goods_and_services. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_QQVPX7Y3RGSVT8JPCPAC70P0WE
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- MLA
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Household expenditure on sporting goods and services." 2020, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Household_expenditure_on_sporting_goods_and_services. Accessed 21 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_QQVPX7Y3RGSVT8JPCPAC70P0WE.
- Chicago
- Statistical Office of the European Union. "Household expenditure on sporting goods and services." 2020. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Household_expenditure_on_sporting_goods_and_services. Accessed September 21, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_QQVPX7Y3RGSVT8JPCPAC70P0WE.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eurostat2020share70p0we, author = {{Statistical Office of the European Union}}, title = {Household expenditure on sporting goods and services}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_QQVPX7Y3RGSVT8JPCPAC70P0WE}, note = {Original source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Household\_expenditure\_on\_sporting\_goods\_and\_services. Accessed September 21, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- Statistical Office of the European Union · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Household expenditure on sporting goods and services
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- On average, EU households allocated about two thirds of their expenditure on sporting goods and services to recreational and sporting services
- Retrieved
- 21 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_QQVPX7Y3RGSVT8JPCPAC70P0WE