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A diet is deemed unaffordable if it costs more than 63% of a household's income. The cost of a healthy diet is defined as the lowest-cost set of items available that
would meet requirements for each food group specified in food-based dietary guidelines from governments and public health agencies.
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- Annual food expenditure per person vs. GDP per capita
- Average income of large-scale food producers
- Average income of small-scale food producers
- Commodity price index of cereal crops and petroleum, 1850-2015
- Cost of a calorie sufficient diet
- Cost of a calorie sufficient diet as a percentage of the global poverty line
- Cost of a calorie sufficient diet as a share of average food expenditure
- Cost of a healthy diet
- Cost of a healthy diet as a percentage of the global poverty line
- Cost of a healthy diet as a share of average expenditure on food
- Cost of a nutritionally adequate diet
- Cost of a nutritionally adequate diet as a share of the global poverty line
- Cost of nutritionally adequate diet as a share of average food expenditure
- Domestic food price volatility index
- Food expenditure as a share of family disposable income
- Food expenditure per person
- Food expenditure per person per year
- How much food can you buy for working one hour in the manufacturing sector?
- Long-term prices of food commodities
- Number of people that cannot afford a calorie sufficient diet
- Number of people that cannot afford a nutritionally adequate diet
- Real commodity price index, food products
- Restaurant prices relative to retail prices in the United States
- Share of consumer expenditure on alcoholic beverages and tobacco
- Share of consumer expenditure spend on alcoholic beverages and tobacco
- Share of consumer expenditure spent on alcoholic beverages and tobacco vs. GDP per capita, 2015
- Share of consumer expenditure spent on food
- Share of consumer expenditure spent on food vs. GDP per capita
- Share of population that cannot afford a calorie sufficient diet
- Share of population that cannot afford a healthy diet
- Share of population that cannot afford a nutritionally adequate diet
- Share of total expenditure spent on food vs. food expenditure per person
- Wages in the Manufacturing Sector vs. Several Food Prices USA
- Wheat prices in England