Netherlands: expenditure on sustainable food, by retail channel 2021

In 2013, the total expenditure on sustainable food in supermarkets in the Netherlands was approximately 1.4 billion euros. By 2021, this had increased to roughly eight billion euros. The supermarket is by far the most popular purchase channel for sustainable food.

Expenditure on sustainable food in the Netherlands from 2013 to 2021, by retail channel (in million euros)

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

2013 to 2021

Supplementary notes

The source defines sustainable food as food produced with more attention towards the environment, animal welfare and/or social aspects than is obliged by law.

Not all expenditure in all supermarkets was measured. The 2013 figure covers approximately 68 percent of the market, the figures for 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 cover approximately 70 percent of the total food market. Starting in 2018, the source used a research method, which partly explains the sharp increase fom that year onwards in supermarket figures.

The figures have been taken from several publications.

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