EU households spent more than 200 billion US dollars or 1.3% of EU’s GDP on communications in 2018, Eurostat said. This represents 2.3% of total household expenditure. Communications include postal services, telephones and telexes. Households in Bulgaria have the largest share of communications spending - 4.8% of their total expenditures. By this indicator Bulgaria is followed by Greece with 4.4%, Romania with 4.1% and Croatia with 4%. Families in Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Austria spend the less - 1.3 to 1.9% on communications. Expenditures for communications have seen the biggest drop compared to other household expenditures in the EU over the past decade from 2.8 to 2.3%. Communication prices fell the most in Estonia - by 3.8 per cent and the least in Bulgaria - 0.6 per cent, while in Romania they rose by 2.3 per cent.
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