Price of bread, where it costs the most in Europe: the ranking

Bread is one of the staple foods of most Western populations, and not only. In Italy, a kilogram has a varied cost from city to city: a Milano e Bologna you can pay over 4 euro, mentre a Naples it drops below 2 euro. At the level of the European Union, however, our country is not even on the podium. Eurostat has drawn up a Ranking dedicated to the price of bread. In the head there is Denmark. It’s Italy?

Price of bread in Europe: where it costs more and where it costs less

Eurostat analyzed the cost of bread in all 27 member states of the European Union in 2019. The most expensive ovens are those of Denmark: once the price level index of the EU average is 100, a Danish citizen pays the most expensive bread, at 151 points. About triple that of Romanian citizens, whose price stands at an index of 53 points. The podium is completed by theAustria (with 133 points) and from Luxembourg, together with Finland (125 points).

In fifth place there are Cipro e Sweden, while on the seventh theIreland goes hand in hand with ours Italy (114.5 points, therefore 14.5% more than the European average). Followed by Belgium, Malta, Greece, France, Spain, Croatia and Slovenia. The cheapest bread (below 100, therefore below the European average) can be bought in Germany, Estonia, Portugal, Slovakia, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic and Hungary. They close the ranking Poland (70), the Bulgaria (65) and the Romania (53).

Price of bread, Coldiretti’s analysis

The Coldiretti, who analyzed how the price rises almost from wheat to bread 15 times as a result of speculation and wild imports of products from abroad, with loaves passed off as products made in Italy unbeknownst to consumers. Italy records a price of bread 14.5% higher than the European average: the association chaired by Ettore Prandini underlines how a kilo of soft wheat is sold for less than 21 cents, while a kilo of bread costs consumers around to 3 euros (to make a kilo of bread you need about one of wheat, from which 800 grams of flour are obtained to mix with water to obtain a kilo of finished product).

In Italy the price varies from city to city. TO Bologna it even reaches 4.72 euros. Among the big cities they follow Milano (4,22) Torino (3,05), Palermo (3,02), Roma (2,63) e Naples (1.89). The strong differences, Coldiretti underlines, are a clear demonstration that the trend in the price of bread depends only marginally on the cost of wheat, with the prices of agricultural products increasingly linked to speculative strategies. The result, Coldiretti denounces, is that farmers “they have to sell 5 kilos of wheat to be able to pay for a coffee or a bottle of water at the bar“.

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